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• Springing Back Through Self Compassion

  • When
    24 Mar 2026
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  How to Be Resilient as Moss: Springing Back Through Self Compassion with Jenny Bell

  Tuesday, March 24, 6:00 - 8:00pm, In-Person

  Join Jenny for this special one-time session on how to bounce back with resilience training! Come explore how to become resilient as moss, which is a powerful and ancient symbol of resilience, adaptability, and quiet strength.

  Moss represents the ability to thrive in harsh and unforgiving environments. It signifies patience and the capacity to overcome obstacles and the great resilience of small things.

  This class will offer self compassion practices to support you in fostering self kindness, internal peace and a sense of ease amid challenging times. You will learn mindful self compassion's key components and how they work together to form an abundant source of inner strength allowing you to navigate life's difficulties with greater resilience and well being. 

  Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able:  $25, $35 or $45. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.  Register HERE or call  502-614-5616.   

  Jenny Bell is a poet, seeker, and spirit inspired earth artist. With a background in stonemasonry, she now spends her days working with horses. Her passion as a meditator began a decade ago and her own personal healing led to her becoming a mindfulness teacher. Jenny’s most recent training was “Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Training” with David Treleaven.  She is a compassionist and aspiring heart healer.

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• Silent Candlelight Vigil for All People Suffering in Wars

  • When
    25 Mar 2026
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    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  Wednesday, March 25, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

  In-Person at DGCEC 

  Please join us when you can during this two-hour silent vigil: To lament all who have been killed; to be in solidarity with those being oppressed; to envision healing for anyone who is suffering; and to pray for peace, justice, and harmony for all.

  Light a candle to remember and be present. Consider fasting as an offering of your heartfelt care. Invite friends to join. Write prayers for peace. Meditate upon hope, love, and healing. Join us at DGCEC or vigil in your own place. Together let us extend compassion and transform hatred and division with visions of a justice and peace-filled world.

  All are welcome. Register for a reminder.

  
  

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• Tibetan Momo Dinner and Movie Night

  • When
    27 Mar 2026
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  Tibetan Momo Dinner and Movie Night

  featuring "Jane Goodall: The Hope"

  Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:30 - 7:45pm

  This documentary celebrates Goodall’s work and explores the ways in which her passion for wildlife has changed the world. This new perspective illustrates the obstacles that Goodall has faced throughout her career and shows how, with a dedicated team and unshakable drive, she has overcome those obstacles to become one of the most important names in wildlife conservation and environmental activism.

  THE HOPE also depicts Jane Goodall’s impressive mission to ignite positive change globally, causing her to travel nearly 300 days a year and to speak out on a number of major issues ranging from human rights to climate crisis. Told through a combination of archival footage, present-day stories and on-camera interviews, JANE GOODALL: THE HOPE is an inspirational story that explores Goodall’s vast legacy and charts the many paths that stem from one woman’s hope for a better future.

  “This powerful documentary aims to shed a new light on how Jane’s commitment to her cause has transformed the way in which we think about wildlife conservation,” said Janet Han Vissering, senior vice president of production and development for National Geographic Global Networks. “Now, more than ever, it’s important to highlight stories of hope that inspire viewers to work together to protect our planet.”  (88 minutes, 2020)

  Pre-Registration Required for the Momo Dinner which includes momos, salad, other tasties, and shared community. Cost: $25, $30 or $35: DrepungGomangUSA.org or 502-614-5616. Your fee helps support the compassion mission of DGCEC.

  The movie is free, but please register so we can expect you.

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• Dharma Talk: Bodhichitta Mind Meditation and Practice with Geshe Rapgyal

  • When
    28 Mar 2026
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    DGCEC or via Zoom

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  Saturday, March 28, 10:00 – 11:30am
  via Zoom or In-Person 

  Join Geshela for this special opportunity to explore Awakening Mind and the Four Immeasurables which offers essential practices for cultivating the Bodhichitta mind of compassion, wisdom, and love.

  Please register here or call 502-614-5616 to join us. 

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• Equanimity for Challenging Times: Clarity, Balance + Compassion

  • When
    31 Mar 2026
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  with Jenny Bell

  Tuesday, March 31, 6:00 – 8:00pm, In-Person

  Join Jenny for this one time session on cultivating emotional resilience. Through the practice of equanimity we can grow our heart's and mind's capacity to roll with life's inevitable unending challenges and changes. In these times of divisiveness, uncertainty and grief, it is through our practice of equanimity that we can respond to our life experience with greater clarity, balance, and compassion!

  In this session you will receive input, explore skills, and take some time for practice and discussion on developing a sense of calm strength, grace, and spaciousness in your daily life. 

  Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able:  $25, $35 or $45.  Register here, at DrepungGomangUSA.org or Call 502-614-5616.  Some partial scholarships may be available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com. 

  Jenny Bell is a poet, aspiring heart healer and earth artist. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness instructor offering classes and retreats throughout our community. Her offerings are born where spirituality + creativity intersect. She is a compassionist by heart ~ a stone mason by trade. Most days you will find her in the wilderness creating nature mandalas.

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• Moving at the Speed of Trust: An Evening of Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness

  • When
    07 Apr 2026
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  with Jenny Bell

  Tuesday, April 7, 6:00 - 8:00pm, In-Person

  Join Jenny for this restorative, self nourishing, trauma sensitive mindfulness session that offers practices for safe and transformative healing. If you are someone who experiences high stress response or stored trauma response and finds traditional mindfulness instruction to be challenging, this offering is for you. More than just caring for your experience, you will learn how to use the framework of trauma sensitive mindfulness to increase your capacity to meet life with a certain gentleness. Hands-on mindful self compassion practices are woven throughout our session. This session will help you create the refuge that you so desire and deserve!  

  Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able:  $25, $35 or $45. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.  Register HERE or call  502-614-5616.   

  Jenny Bell is a poet, seeker, and spirit inspired earth artist. With a background in stonemasonry, she now spends her days working with horses. Her passion as a meditator began a decade ago and her own personal healing led to her becoming a mindfulness teacher. Jenny’s most recent training was “Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Training” with David Treleaven.  She is a compassionist and aspiring heart healer.

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• Earth Care Solutions Circle

  • When
    18 Apr 2026
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  Saturday, April 18, 2026, 1:30 - 3:30pm, In-Person

  Facilitated by Anne Walter

  Be part of the national and international movement of Solutions Circles held in honor of Earth Day on April 22, 2026

  Solutions Circles uplift the many viable programs and policies that advance environmental healing and protection. In this time of climate emergency and ecological destruction, knowing what works is as important as knowing about the problems. Solutions like renewable energy, green corridors, marine sanctuaries, wildlife protection, rewilding, recycling, energy conservation, and much more demonstrate that a sustainable future is possible.

  Join us in exploring the stories from a variety of communities that are already implementing creative responses to generate environmental healing and protection and be inspired to imagine how we could do the same.  DGCEC’s Solutions Circle is opening minds and hearts about nonviolence toward our Earth Home and to get us excited about realistic possibilities.

  Registration Fee: $10, $20, or Free.  REGISTER online or call 502-614-5616.

  The Earth Day Solutions Circles campaign is part of “2026: The Year of Nonviolent Solutions”, a program of Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service that seeks to popularize the many alternatives to physical, systemic, and cultural violence. https://paceebene.org/year-of-nonviolent-solutions

  
  

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• Buddhist Psychology and the Nature of the Mind, Part II

  • Start
    03 May 2026
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    1:00 PM
  • End
    14 Jun 2026
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    DGCEC

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  with Geshe Rapgyal

  7 Sundays, May 3 to July 14, 2026, 1:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time, In-Person and via Zoom

  Explore the mind, guided by the great Nalanda Buddhist Tradition. This special Dharma offering is in response to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s vision and effort to share this ancient tradition in accessible language. During this seven week class Geshe Rapgyal will focus on Parts 4 and 5, mind and its objects and inferential reason. This class continues the survey of the nature of the mind, mental factors, and mind training as begun last year with other chapters of the volume.

  The content of the class is based on Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol 2: The Mind, Parts 4 and 5. This series was conceived and introduced by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, edited by Thupten Jinpa, from Wisdom Publications, 2020. This text is required for participation and can be purchased for a discount through DGCEC’s Tibetan Marketplace.

  Geshe Lharampa Kalsang Rapgyal has served as the Spiritual Teacher and Executive Director of DGCEC since 2010. He holds the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and offers regular Buddhist teachings for our community.

  All students are welcome. In gratitude and support of a dharma center from which to teach, we ask for a fee. Please choose an amount fits your budget from this sliding scale: $125, $160, $195, or $300 Sponsor Rate. To inquire about a scholarship, please email Anne at DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.

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