Around the Kitchen Table:
Reflecting on the election together
with Tenzin Chogkyi
Do you wish to have a candid, non-judgmental conversation about the election? Many of us are experiencing a wide range of difficult emotions, and perhaps we could use some support.
Join us for an opportunity to create a safe container of deep listening. This is an invitation for each person to speak authentically from their heart, one at a time, about what is true for them in the moment, and receive the full presence of others who will listen with their deepest compassion.
Our virtual kitchen table will be moderated by Tenzin Chogkyi. We want to get together as friends to share our feelings and explore how we can apply a Dharma approach to the election. This will not be a political discussion, but instead an opportunity to reflect on our recent experiences, be supported in community, and move towards greater wholeness. All points of view and reactions are warmly welcome.
About the Facilitator
Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period and took monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, practicing as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.
She is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well. She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She is featured on a monthly radio show called “Reflections on Buddhism” on KSQD 90.7 in the Santa Cruz area. She also finds time to create her Unlocking True Happiness podcast which you can check out at unlockingtruehappiness.org where you will also find her current teaching schedule. She is currently based on traditional Awaswas Ohlone land, in what is now known as Santa Cruz, CA.
