LEE KLINGER LESSER

Workshop Calendar
Click on any of the links below for more detailed information. To register or for more info, contact Lee (unless another contact is listed) at 415-389-9729 or leelesser@gmail.com. Sliding scale available for most workshops.
Five Month Study Group
November 2008 - March 2009
Fee: $550
One Day & Weekend Workshops
One Day Workshops
Nov. 15 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Dec. 6 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Jan. 25 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Feb. 21 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
March 22 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Weekend Workshops
Weekend Workshop Toronto, Canada, May 22 - 24, 2009
Fee: $275
To register contact Fran Khanna.
Ten Day Workshop in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
February 5 - 19, 2009
Fee: $450
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
July 12 - 17, 2009
Fee for the workshop: $325 plus separate housing and meal fee
To register contact Reservations Office, 300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 415-865-1899 after March 1, 2009.
Finding the Way Home: A Retreat and Support Community for Returning Veterans, Spring 2009
with Chris Fortin and Lee Klinger Lesser
co-sponsored by the San Francisco Zen Center
March 1, April 5, May 9 and June 14, 2009
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Fee: $10/day and the opportunity to offer a teaching donation if desired
This four month group is designed to build a safe and welcoming community for returning veterans. It will consist of four monthly one-day retreats, two in San Francisco and two at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach.
Activities will include:
- Meditation and mindfulness practices to cultivate awareness and healing
- Writing as a practice to develop self-awareness and expression
- Gardening and farming to engage with the natural vitality of working with the land
- Weekly mindfulness and stress management practices to integrate skills being learned in the retreats.
- Weekly phone or e-mail contact with the leaders and other participants.
Chris Fortin is a Buddhist priest and psychotherapist. The retreat is non-denominational and open to everyone.
"In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone."
- Rachel Naomi Remen