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Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

On the path of practice, few obstacles are as persistent and influential as doubt in our capacity for transformation. This uncertainty can keep us entangled in dukkha — stress and distress — mistaking these conditioned experiences for something unchangeable.

This retreat invites a direct exploration of dukkha, and encourages the cultivation of an experiential understanding that stress and distress are conditioned and resolvable. As practice deepens, assurance grows — not as blind belief, but as a lived recognition of our ability to come close to life without habitual reactivity, transcending dukkha with clarity and responsiveness.

2026-08-07 (7 days) Gaia House

  
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2026-08-07 Retreat Overview - The Confidence to Shape Experience 12:15
Mark Ovland
2026-08-08 Morning Instructions - Helping Ourselves to Settle (Kindness and Releasing Contraction) 56:50
Mark Ovland
2026-08-08 Guided Meditation - Establishing Mettā Practice - Easy Relationship and Oneself 42:59
Zohar Lavie
2026-08-08 Talk - Tuning Into Well-being (Knowing Tiredness and Dullness) 65:33
Nathan Glyde
2026-08-09 Morning Instructions - Creative Space (Stretching and Brightening Attention) 57:00
Nathan Glyde
2026-08-09 Guided Meditation - Mettā to Ourselves, a Loved One, and the Group 41:29
Mark Ovland
2026-08-09 Talk - Understanding Dukkha, Skilful Attending to Thinking 54:38
Zohar Lavie
2026-08-10 Morning Instructions - Restlessness as Energy We Can Shape 59:49
Zohar Lavie
2026-08-10 Guided Meditation - Receiving Mettā and Widening the Circle of Goodwill 46:24
Monica Antunes
2026-08-10 Talk - Satisfaction, Choice, and Getting What You Want 45:25
Mark Ovland
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