Contemplative Care Retreat

[Koshin Paley Ellison]

January 15 to 18, 2009
Contemplative Care Retreat
Garrison Institute, Garrison NY

With Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, Trudi Jinpu Hirsch, Koshin Paley Ellison & Robert Chodo Campbell, Core Teaching Faculty of the Center for Contemplative Care

In this retreat, we will take a deep look at how to integrate contemplative practice with care giving, whether at home or in the work place. Combining Buddhist teachings with periods of sitting and walking meditation, didactics, small group work, question and answer periods, this retreat will provide an opportunity to explore the depths of our inner wisdom and compassion. Most importantly, this will be a time to look at how we can take care of ourselves whilst taking care of others. The retreat will be especially beneficial to nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, chaplains, doctors and lay caregivers.

As a retreat facility, Garrison Institute (http://www.garrisoninstitute.org) offers a place of refuge where people can withdraw from the business of daily life and refresh themselves. Accommodations are simple, comfortable, and quiet with enough space to breathe, rest, and meditate. Garrison’s kitchen offers incredibly delicious vegetarian fare. Garrison offers bedrooms that are simple but beautifully furnished and are available as singles, doubles, triples, and quads. Our bathrooms are designed in an elegant Zen esthetic.

Each floor has a Jacuzzi and a comfortable lounge for relaxing, reading, or just enjoying the Hudson River views.

About the facilitators:

Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, PhD, is the Abbot of the Village Zendo (Dotokuji). Enkyo Roshi is a Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in the Soto tradition. She studied with Roshi John Daido Loori of Zen Mountain Monastery and Taizan Maezumi Roshi of the Zen Center of Los Angeles/Zen Mountain Center. In 1997 she received Shiho (dharma transmission) from Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman and in June, 2004, she received inka from him in an empowerment ceremony held at the House of One People in Montague, MA. Roshi currently serves as Co-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemaker Family, a spiritual, study and social action association. Enkyo Roshi's focus is on true self-expression, peacemaking, and HIV/AIDS activism. She holds a PhD in Media Ecology and taught multimedia at New York University for over 20 years.

Trudi Jinpu Hirsch, ZPO, ACPE Chaplain Supervisor and is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest with the Village Zendo. She was the acting Director and Chaplain Supervisor for Beth Israel Medical Center for four years. Jinpu piloted and continued a Buddhist CPE unit at Beth Israel Medical Center for chaplain interns, bringing mediation, visualization and relaxation to staff and patients.

Koshin Paley Ellison is a Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He is a founder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective and in private practice, where he sees individuals, couples, and groups. Koshin is currently a Jungian Analyst Candidate at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. Koshin is a senior student and novice Soto Zen Buddhist priest under Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, at the Village Zendo.

Robert Chodo Campbell, is a Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He works as a consultant with couples groups and individuals. He integrates his psychoanalytic training with his Buddhist practice to create a place of safety, compassion, clarity and spaciousness in which the healing process can arise. Chodo brings his life experience and many years of study to his work in the areas of: anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, recovery from sexual abuse and trauma. In his private practice he uses a psycho-spiritual approach to healing emotional, mental and spiritual concerns. He began formal Zen training in 1994 and currently he is a Buddhist Chaplain Priest with Village Zendo in New York City. He is committed to helping people develop their own transformational tools for coping with emotional suffering, to be fully engaged in their lives and in healthy relationships.


When: January 15 to 18, 2009
Where: Garrison Institute, Garrison NY
Cost: The cost of this four-day/three night retreat varies depending upon your choice of room (including meals):
$380 Triple/Quad
$420 Double
$460 Single
+ Dana for the teachers
To register, download the registration form here: http://zencare.org/upcoming/090115-18.html