Upcoming Events

Practice Collective

Realizing Freedom Together

with Caverly Morgan

9 consecutive Tuesday evenings, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Starts: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Ends: Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Online, In Collaboration with Mindful

“The next Buddha may be a sangha.” —Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Join us for an experiential practice collective based on Caverly’s book, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together.

Are you feeling isolated in your practice or life? Do you seek the support and connection of a beloved community? Longing to be part of a collective that practices and applies transformative tools together?

Embark on a Journey of True Change 

This interactive and experiential course will support you to connect your personal meditation practice to community practice, and to true and meaningful change. True change occurs when we not only understand who we truly are but also act in the world from this understanding. 

This nine-session collective will help you:

• Realize Who You Truly Are: Drop beneath the inner judge and know your true nature as inherently wise and loving.

• Identify and Overcome Personal and Collective Barriers: Disidentify with the conditioned mind and larger systems of oppression to move in the world from truth. 

• Act from a Place of Deep Knowing: Bolster compassionate communication skills and recognize opportunities to foster deeper connections throughout your life. 

What You’ll Take Away:

• Practice Tools: Accessible techniques and practices to support your capacity to flourish and experience inherent freedom.

• Relational Dharma: Community and relational practices that support an embodied understanding of interconnectedness. 

• Beloved Community: Restorative nourishment that arises out of being in a compassionate group setting.

What to Expect:

• Guided Meditations

• Dharma Discussions

• Dyad and Small Group Work

• Reflection and Integration Exercises

• Relational and Emergent Approach

The cost of the Practice Collective is being offered on a sliding scale:

• Supported—For those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.

• Fair—For those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.

• Rebalancing—For those with ample financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.

*Please choose the option that is most in alignment with your current situation.

We are deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize this commitment as an integral part of spiritual practice. For this Practice Collective we have a limited number of $175 scholarships for people who identify as BIPOC and/or part of a marginalized community, as well as a limited number of $100 scholarships for people experiencing financial hardship.

If you are interested in a scholarship, please apply HERE.

Cultivating Self-Compassion as Loving, Connected Presence

with Dr. Kristin Neff and Caverly Morgan

Saturday - Sunday, April 26 - 27, 2025, 10:00am – 5:00pm PST

On-Land at Spirit Rock in CA, or Online via Zoom

Self-compassion is a powerful tool for emotional resilience in the face of suffering.

It entails three main elements: kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. One way to access self-compassion is by embodying these three components in their experiential form, which entails loving, connected presence. We can learn to untangle from our thoughts and emotions and rest our awareness in compassionate presence, holding our pain.

Research shows that self-compassion is strongly linked to psychological and physical health, but the practice can be hard to remember. Our physiology and culture doesn’t support the practice of being kind to ourselves, especially when our distress is due to feelings of failure or inadequacy. In this program, Caverly joins Dr. Kristin Neff to explore self-compassion from a scientific and contemplative lens, so that we can respond to difficult moments with greater warmth and ease.

Looking for Peace with Youth Starts with Us?

You’ll find this FREE six-part series - hosted by Sounds True and featuring Caverly Morgan and Peace in Schools - on our On-Demand page.

Ongoing Events

Monthly Meditation Gathering

First Wednesdays of the month 

7-8:30pm

Whidbey Institute

This monthly group focuses on direct experiences of who we truly are, integrating practice into our everyday lives, and embodying realization.

Caverly combines meditation with a facilitated group discussion that is interactive and personal. Learn to see how suffering is created in your life and gain the tools to open, transform, and explore your direct experience of truth. Designed both for newcomers and those who would like to deepen their practice.

These gatherings are offered on a sliding scale; additional scholarships are also available. You can choose to purchase a 2024 Pass or individual drop-in’s.

Schedule

This group generally meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 7-8:30pm in the Sanctuary. Dates include:  1/8* – 2/5 – 3/19** – 5/7 – 6/4 – 7/9* – 8/6 – 9/3 – 10/8* – 12/3. (Note: There are no gatherings April or November.)

*These are the second Wednesdays of the month.

**This is the third Wednesday of the month.

Save the Dates!

• Sangha Live Day of Presence April 5th, 2025 (OR)

• Portland Insight Meditation Center Workshop April 5th, 2025 (OR)

• Portland Insight Meditation Center Sunday Program April 6th, 2025 (OR)