Breathing Space Retreats

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The Breathing Space Retreats are a community offering designed to support our healthcare providers.  Kairos Center for Change, LLC, is building a coalition of professional caregivers in the community who have been on the frontlines themselves and have been devoted to their meditation practices, self-inquiry, and active offerings to the community for mind, body, and spirit wellness.

Healthcare providers are publicly recognized to be under intensified stress during this post-pandemic healthcare crisis. In January 2022 the US Dept. Of Health and Human Services publicly announced that the impact of the pandemic  “exacerbated longstanding barriers to workplace well being.”  Of course, the costs of burnout extend to every precious resource of our personal and communal lives – economic, health, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.  Our intention is to facilitate restorative experiences that ignite hope, joy, renewal, and strength .

Mantra and Music with Tom Ryberg

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Rev. Tom Ryberg (he/him) is a musician and spiritual caregiver living in upstate NY. A hospice/hospital chaplain since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, he cherishes the sacred work of accompanying individuals as they navigate times of transition and loss. Tom incorporates contemplative music and deep listening in the collaborative work of healing and meaning-making. 

Description of Workshop:    Music and mantras can be powerful gifts for healing and balance. In the Mantra and Music workshop, participants will explore the benefits of soothing sound, walk the labyrinth, and practice of holding a mantra as a way to move through a moment of stress or transition. 

Embodied Awareness Practice with Pierre Zimmerman

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Pierre Zimmerman, MS (He/Him) is an organizational consultant, mindfulness teacher/leader and chaplain in end of life care. He has been working in Behavioral, Elder Health Care for over 35 years in many capacities, including business administration, clinical program development, contracting for physicians and marketing in the US and Canada. Pierre has served as CEO for a specialty hospital with daycare and outpatient continuum of care.

Pierre has been leading Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programs for the last 18 years. He offers many workshops and organizational training sessions on mindful business practices at for profit, non-profits, and other entities. He has mentored many international chaplaincy students at the Upaya Zen Center for over a decade. In the past 13 years he has been leading Dharma Meditation every Sunday morning as well as during the week in several locations. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP:  The workshop is designed to lead people into a short meditation first to settle the body, heart and mind in its natural functioning. It is followed by a walking meditation in the beautiful natural setting of Kairos Change Center for Change. A silent practice of embodied awareness in movement will provide a sense of safety and connection. Finally, a vagal toning exercise will calm participant’s central nervous system and move each one from daily stress and contraction to experiencing a sense of ease and expansion, restoring levity and balance.

The Enneagram Process: A Tool for Transformation

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DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP:  Are you feeling blocked? Are you finding yourself questioning your career choice in the caregiving field? Asking what do people want? What do I want? Are you needing a real caregiving booster shot? This busy person workshop invites these questions and dedicates time to the caregiver, offering enrichment tools to release, receive, and replenish amidst unrelenting caregiving demand, scarcity of time, and depletion of energy.

In community, participants will:

• be introduced to the Enneagram Process, an ancient tool validated by modern science that has been used as a map to hidden reservoirs of energy, creativity, and humor for sustainable resilience and Self leadership. Importantly, this timeless tool can be brought anywhere and used anytime to bring one closer to living one’s values in freedom.
• employ meditation, movement work, and music in service of learning patterns of release, recognition, and replenishment that fit your unique motivations, style of perceiving, relating, and problem-solving.
  • deepen understanding of stress release points
• welcome All Beginners!