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Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Weekend Retreat
April 11 - April 13
Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Convocation April 11-13, 2025 at Bon Secours Conference Center Marriottsville, MD featuring Lama Rod Owens
To register and learn more visit the UUBF website: https://uubf.org/wp/
“Healing, Resiliency, and Liberation” It seems as if we are living through an apocalypse, struggling to learn lessons through a pervasive pandemic, economic instability, political unrest, climate change, and various forms of systematic violence. However, this moment is also inviting us back to an authentic indigeneity. We are being asked to remember how to be in relationship to the land, to our brokenheartedness, and in gentle healing connections with others. In the face of so much change, we may find it difficult to maintain our physical and emotional balance which makes resiliency such an important skill to develop right now. Resiliency is about how well we can meet the challenges of our lives with the sense of openness and curiosity that helps us to regain our balance. Balance means understanding how to return to sense of being grounded to meet challenges directly. We will explore both personal and collective resiliency through somatic based mindfulness practice, grief work, chanting, and prayer. Join Lama Rod Owens as he delves into themes of spiritual abolition, liberatory care, grieving as care work, as well as what it means to be a love centered agent of liberation in this moment.
Lama Rod is the Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation. Lama Rod is an authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.
