I like to do some kind of personal retreat or professional development workshop around the time of my birthday. Four years ago I took a train to San Diego to attend the first West Coast .b Mindfulness training. Another year I spent a few days at Green Gulch Zen Center.
This year right after my birthday, David Levy, author of the excellent book Mindful Tech, was facilitating a weekend Mindful Tech retreat with poet, author, and founder of Everyday Zen, Norman Fischer. I’ve always wanted to go to Tassajara, deep in the Los Padres National Forest in Northern California. I had no doubt that the combination of Mindful Tech + Tassajara would be just the support I needed. The week of the trip, I was starting to feel some anticipation when I received an email that the event was cancelled. [Read more…] about How a cancelled retreat led to a mindful tech “News-Out”
