These intensive training sessions introduce the Monastic Academy’s ethos and ecology of practices to train Awakened leaders in this time of great transformation and danger. This transformative experience is not for the faint of heart! 

The primary focus points of this training are:

• Understanding the current interconnected ecological and social issues facing our planet
• Establishing the mental ethos and principles for facing inner and outer crises.
• Clearing emotional blockages bogging down your relationships, meditation, work, and life.
• Practicing authentically being with others based on honesty, care, and vulnerability.
• Learning how to live from your highest aspiration and purpose on intellectual, relational, emotional, meditative, work related, and communal levels.
• Exploring the full Eight-Fold Path in a unique, modern, monastic culture.