INVITE!  Practicing Mindfulness with Children and Families
(A special weekend gathering for practitioners who work, play, share, and practice with children and family.)

This summer, Deer Park Monastery will host the Teen Camp and Family retreat together. The Teen-Camp will occur from June 27th - 30th, 2006(Tues – Fri) followed by the Family Retreat from July 01st - 04th, 2006(Sat – Tues) with the teens staying on with their family members.

We invite friends of the monastery who practice mindfulness and work with children whether through education, art, songs, or family counsel, etc., to join us for the weekend before the Teen-Camp starting on Friday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 25th. We will practice together and share with each other ways that we have experienced and shared with children the practice of mindfulness. We will gather our collective wisdom to create activities that can be enriching for the family and children (songs, art, music, dance, movement, martial arts, yoga, games, etc.), and especially form a program for the coming Family and Teen Retreat. This is a special gathering limited in numbers, so if you are interested, please contact our office for more details. This is not a “retreat” per se for we will follow the normal schedule of the monastery (sitting, meals, etc.) with additional workshops with Monastic Staff responsible for the Family and Teen Retreat.

Special Invitation: It is our wish that some participants will stay for the Teen-Camp and Family Retreat and help us with guiding the children as staff. This is by invitation, so if you are interested, please let us know when you come for this gathering. If you are invited as a staff, the stay during the following two retreats (Family and Teen Retreat) will be complimentary.