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Enlivening Meditation with the Factors of Awakening

Online Program
Dates: Mar 26, 2021 - Mar 31, 2021

Instructor(s): Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

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Although essential for practice, mindfulness is not the only mental factor to be cultivated on the path. In order for the practice to become alive and vital, mindfulness needs to be placed in its wider context.

The seven factors of awakening are mental qualities to be developed and used to counteract mental states that cause suffering. There are three energizing factors: investigation, joy, and energy. And there are three calming factors: calm, concentration, and equanimity. These factors regulate and stabilize mindfulness, and mindfulness, in turn, activates and arouses these qualities. Each of these factors plays a significant role in deepening meditation practice; leaving any of them out of the picture may cause our practice to stall or stagnate. As these seven factors are enhanced and engaged, practice comes alive in a more balanced and wholehearted way.

    About the Instructor(s):
  • Susan Morgan, CNS, is a psychotherapist in Cambridge, MA. She is a board and faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. Susan has a longstanding meditation practice and recently completed a four-year meditation retreat at the Forest Refuge. She has been leading retreats, primarily for caregivers, for the last 15 years. Lovingkindness and mindfulness of the body are integral to her teaching.

  • Bill Morgan, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. He has participated in many intensive retreats in meditation practice over the past 40 years and recently completed a four-year meditation retreat at the Forest Refuge in Barre, MA. Together with Susan Morgan, he has been leading mindfulness retreats for 15 years.