KINDNESS NOW Book Club with Amanda Gilbert
⏰ Wednesdays // Mar 9 - 30// 8-8:50pm (4 sessions)
Mar 9 - Opening & Loving-Kindness
Mar 16 - Compassion
Mar 23 - Appreciative Joy
Mar 30 - Equanimity & Close
📗 Program: Author Amanda Gilbert will lead this book club on her book Kindness Now to introduce you to the basics of mindfulness meditation and guide you into a deeper practice intended to promote personal growth and connection to your authentic self.
She'll bring the 4 heart practices-- Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity--into your life through her 28-day guided meditation program aimed at helping you become a kinder, more compassionate, and radically loving person.
What Luminaries Are Saying:
"Offering timely and clear guidance on the heart qualities of mindfulness meditation." - Deepak Chopra MD
“This 28-day training feels like a perfect way to spend a month—in true investigation and celebration of the heart.” - Sharon Salzberg
“Amanda Gilbert brilliantly brings modern context to essential teachings of the Buddha.” - Yung Pueblo
When you participate in this book club (and in reading the book), you'll cultivate an open heart and deepen your kindness and compassion response.
💰 Free with signup all you need is to purchase your copy of Kindness Now on Shambhala here or on Amazon here. For more information visit: www.kindnessnowbook.com
📍 Where: a zoom link will be sent to you with the confirmation email.
👩🏻 About Amanda
AMANDA GILBERT is a professor of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, a meditation teacher, speaker, author. She has been a meditator for over 17 years and now leads meditation for top companies like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy's and YouTube.
Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was Center Director for The Aging Metabolism and Emotions Center at the University of California San Francisco, conducting scientific research and publishing investigations on the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness and meditation.
She is now an emerging expert in the field of teaching meditation, mindfulness, and the contemplative sciences. Her formal meditation training has been with UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, in Primordial Sound Meditation with Deepak Chopra, and the Insight Meditation tradition.
