RSVP List (max = 12)

• Member’s Circle

  • Blair - physical host and backup facilitator + setup volunteer
  • Jake- physical host + setup volunteer
  • Caleb - facilitator
  • Anna - co-facilitator
  • KC
  • Emily Duran
  • Anshul
  • Aza

• Non-members but not new to SaTi

• New people

  • Tevi Abrams Slep - (was on e-mail list, responded to year end message)
  • Sam (discovered from spirit rock) — tried to attend last week but couldn’t find parking
  • Avril (jenny referral) — tried to attend last week but couldn’t find parking
  • Mel

• Waitlist

  • Vanessa (new)

• 6:15-6:45 (30m in advance) Volunteers Setup

• 6:45-6:55pm Arrive & Welcome

• 7:00 Caleb ring bell to Begin the evening

• Short Welcome (end by 7:05)

  • Caleb - Hi and HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I’m Caleb, I’ll be facilitating SaTi tonight
  • Anna - hi I’m Anna, volunteer at CV, I’ll be co-facilitating tonight
  • Anna Welcome & Intro
    • Point to where the bathroom is
    • No open drinks in this room (so we don’t spill when we move around & talk to each other)
    • It’s our intention to end on time: 8:45 to respect your time. We also have optional 30m tea & snacks after until 9:15, which we warmly welcome you to 🙂
    • Everyone go around and say your name & pronoun (and one word of how they are feeling (if feels right& depending on how many there are))
  • Anna Intro to CV & Sangha Time (end by 7:08)
    • If everyone has been to Sangha Time before, you can skip the below & just share what Community Village means to you and/or why you wanted to get involved with facilitating
    • Optional: good to add personal touch, and say it in your own words - what does CV mean to YOU?
    • Community Village
      • What? Community Village is a community-first approach to meditation oriented towards people in their 20s and 30s - and open to ALL (we don’t check IDs! :)).
      • Mission? Our mission is to support community and wholesome friendships amongst meditators. We do this through peer-led, co-created initiatives that:
        1. Foster community & connection
        2. Offer inspiration & reminders (to practice)
        3. Integrate meditation practice into our daily lives
        4. Empower community co-creation
    • Sangha Time
      • What? a weekly heartbeat for the community. we meditate together - YES. But not just that..
      • Practice & Life: Always have elements of relational practice, reflection, sharing, and connection.. exploring: how do we bring this practice into our LIVES and into the WORLD?
      • Invitation to participate! We are a peer-led community, co-created by its members. So come on over and join in :)

• 25min Caleb - Topic intro & Silent Meditation (end by 7:33pm)

  • Today we’ll continue with our 8 week series on the Four Brahma Viharas - The four qualities we can cultivate in our practice and in our life to live more freely and more wholesomely.
  • After the first two, loving kindness and compassion, we are now looking at JOY!! :)
  • But first, as always we’ll sit together!
  • We’ll sit in a silent meditation for 25 minutes
  • Ask if anyone new to meditating 25 mins and unsure what to do during that time
    • (If needed: one simple intro way is to scan the body, feel into sensations of the body, maybe the hands or feet, or whole body breathing, find a place that feels easy to rest your attention on, rest there, and when a thought comes up, gently bring yourself back)
  • Any other questions?
  • Make yourself comfortable.
  • I’ll ring bell after 25 minutes.

• 12m Caleb Wisdom Reading (end by 7:48)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15y45H018aT_k8tOI61mlRreMovzEFFk5CoR6xFaygqw/edit?usp=sharing

• So as mentioned today we’ll continue with topic of joy

• We started last week to read from “The Book of Joy” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama,former Archbishop of South Africa, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams

• And we’ll continue to read from them today

• In the book they describe what capacities we can develop to cultivate joy, and they call them the eight pillars of joy -

• we looked at the first two last week - perspective & humility and today we’ll look at the next two, humor and acceptance

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FgTvcktivu77mzMqHXyQInlNIE18tJAJ9Tq8B5YB4K0/edit?usp=sharing

• So let’s read

• reading tips:

  • Take it slow
  • Read as much or as little as you want, or pass if you don’t wish to read
  • As you pass it on, please point to where you left of

• 5m Anna group stretch / bathroom break (end by 07:53)

  • Before we move into some group sharing, let’s have a stretch break! If you need to use the bathroom, please go now before the stretching, so we can all be together for the sharing.
  • Community Village Ritual:
    • Go around in a circle - each person choose a stretch or move, everyone else follows.
    • If not comfortable for your body - you can do a variation, something else, or nothing!
    • If you want to pass, that’s ok too!

• Go around in a circle - each person choose a stretch or move, everyone else follows.

• If not comfortable for your body - you can do a variation, something else, or nothing!

• If you want to pass, that’s ok too!