Strengthen Your Spiritual Care through Engaging the Three Gates of Awakening: Body, Speech and Mind with Reverend Susan Shannon
Our spiritual care relates to our quality of presence. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Three Gates of Body, Speech, and Mind are our means of expressing the consciousness we interact with the world through. Susan will unpack the conventional and ultimate meaning in a way that will focus on enhancing our ability to serve others in a sustainable way. Intentionally engaging these Three Gates in everything we do, think, and say in the world bolsters us from the pitfalls of spiritual bypass and burnout. In doing so we align our being with that which is greater than us – the energy of the Divine, Creator, our Buddha Nature.
Susan will lead a guided meditation, talk about pacing the breath practice with a patient, share powerful stories of her work at San Quentin State Prison and Death Row, and provide practices to create sacred presence.
About Susan Shannon: Reverend Susan Shannon, M. Div., BCC is a seeker, teacher, earth and animal steward, devotee, and chaplain of the heart. She has worked in the fields of Emotional Literacy and Restorative Justice for well over 20 years, incorporating 50 years of Buddhist practice and study from the Tibetan tradition.
She’s worked with diverse populations all her life including inmates, Tibetan refugees, the homeless, the differently-abled, at-risk youth, and in the last 10 years of life in California, she was the Buddhist Chaplain to the men in San Quentin State Prison and Death Row.
For the past 13 years, Susan has been a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) supervisor, providing training in professional spiritual care with chaplains and ministers of all denominations and placements. In 2019 Susan moved back to her soul home in the San Juan Islands where she founded the Buddhist Prison Ministry, providing Buddhist education to people behind bars across the country. She also writes, provides spiritual coaching, and tends her land.
Running Time: 1 hour and 53 minutes
