NDF Teachers Retreat: Teaching Pedagogy and Deepening Communication Skills Through Feedback (Online Only)
With Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Lama Liz Monson and Dan Clurman
January 31 - February 2, 2025
In this year’s Natural Dharma Fellowship Teacher’s Retreat, Lama Willa and Lama Liz will be sharing their heart advice about the art of teaching, leading, and embodying the Dharma for the benefit of others. We will explore the importance of intention, personal practice, preparation, spontaneity, psychological self-awareness, space, voice, presence, openness to feedback and other dimensions of pedagogical development.
During this year’s Teacher’s Retreat, our Lamas and the entire circle of teachers will reflect on how to offer the Dharma and how to guide practice. We will consider: What does it mean to offer the Dharma from our deepest place of authenticity? Why are some guided meditations so effective and profound? What makes them so? How can we ever more fully embody our helping roles for the benefit of others?
Please join us to:
- Receive heart advice from our Lamas
- Mine the wisdom of our fellows on the art of teaching
- Engage in small group work and practice sessions
- Hone our skills around giving and receiving effective feedback
Dan Clurman will guide us further into the feedback process as a means of improving our skills in our various NDF roles and our communication skills overall. We will have opportunities to practice adding positive intentions with implicit intentions to our reflective listening repertoire, as well as practice using the feedback process and applying the principles of reflective listening and feedback to difficult conversations.
All Meditation Teachers, Mitras/MITs, Vajrayana Mentors, Dharma Teachers, and Visiting Teachers with Natural Dharma Fellowship are welcome and encouraged to attend this online retreat. The more of us who attend, the richer the experience will be! There will be opportunities to share our personal wisdom on the art of teaching, guiding, and leading for the benefit of others.
Retreat Schedule
(All times are Eastern time zone)
Friday: 7:00 – 9:00 pm ET
Saturday: 1:00 – 6:00 pm ET (with movement breaks)
Sunday: 12:00 – 6:00 pm ET (with movement breaks)
Zoom Link
The Zoom link will be sent several days before the retreat to all those registered. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link with your confirmation email shortly after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly gone to your spam folder or to Promotions or Updates in Gmail.
Important: Please put these this email address in your Contact or Safe-Send list to make sure you receive our emails:
- register@naturaldharma.org
Access to Recordings
NDF offers unlimited access to recordings, which are accessed in your user dashboard (more information about user accounts provided in a pre-retreat letter). If you have a user account, please register with the same email you use to log into your dashboard. If not, an account will be created for you using your registration address.
Availability will vary depending on the type of event and the backlog for our precious resource volunteers. Thank you for your patience.
Wonderwell Mountain Refuge Full Calendar
About the Teachers
Lama Willa Blythe Baker
Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Ph.D. is the Founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after twelve years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. She also […]
Learn more about Lama Willa Blythe BakerLama Liz Monson
Lama, Managing Teacher, Spiritual Co-Director Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. Liz was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after over 30 years of studying, practicing, and teaching Tibetan Buddhism […]
Learn more about Lama Liz MonsonDan Clurman
Dan Clurman is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who has led Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes for over 20 years. He has studied a variety of somatic disciplines including tai chi, yoga, Chi Nei Tsang, and is certified in Judith Blackstone’s subtle body method, the Realization Process. He has taught Relaxed and Awake retreats at Spirit Rock and […]
Learn more about Dan ClurmanCategory : Retreats