Using Meditation to Connect With Our Emotions and Resilience

Monday, 8 July 2019 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Eliza Barclay, Jeff Colombe cove Dupont

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We humans have all kinds of ways of protecting ourselves from harm and seeking favorable things like comfort, safety, food, and reproduction. As intensely social creatures, we also have innate and conditioned ways of promoting our social selves. All of this gives us rich emotional lives, providing the basis for us to enjoy happiness, and to suffer loss and risk.

In the first hour of this class, Eliza Barclay will introduce the practice of mindfulness meditation and lead a guided session of basic meditation, followed by a brief discussion of the experience.

In the second hour, neuroscientist and long-time meditator Jeff Colombe will give a talk on the science of meditation, emotions, and resilience. The talk will focus human emotions and their pivotal role in our mental health, and how meditation can help build our resilience against “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” as Hamlet put it.

Location

cove Dupont
1666 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Neighborhood: Dupont Circle

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Instructors

Eliza Barclay is the science, health, and environment editor at Vox.com. She also studies vipassana and zen Buddhist meditation traditions and is a certified mindfulness teacher trained by the Engaged Mindfulness Institute. She’s thrilled to have the opportunity to facilitate meditation classes for KCDC and other communities around DC.

Jeff Colombe has a B.S. in biomedical engineering and a Ph.D. in neurobiology. He works for a not-for-profit advising the federal government in science and technology issues in the public interest, and has a small tech startup in Washington, D.C. He has over 20 years of study under teachers of Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen meditation.

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