Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support self-identified people of color, members of marginalized groups (queer people, transgender people, and  people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible). 

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

Find out if spots are available by clicking REGISTER NOW on the event you are interested in.

Safety 

We work to protect the safety of all students. We reserve the right to remove any student from any class, sitting group, retreat, or any event if the student is disruptive to the safe learning environment we maintain for all.

Cancellation & Refunds

We reserve the right to cancel a class or special event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable. If InsightLA cancels an event you’ve registered for, you will be offered a full refund. If an event has to be postponed for any reason, you will have the option to either receive a full refund or transfer your registration to the same event at the new, future date. If you cancel, we apply a 5% credit processing fee and the refunded amounts are listed below:

MBSR, MSC, & MBHC, Mindfulness for Beginners & Special Events

7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Fee-Based Non-Residential Retreats (note: Donations are non-refundable)

>7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Residential Retreats

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $100
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
< 2 weeks – No refund

Residential Retreats with Financial Support:

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $200
< 2 weeks – No refund

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  • Location Online
  • Experience Levels All
  • Dates
    • Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, July 15, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, July 22, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, July 29, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, August 5, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT
    • Wednesday, August 12, 2020 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PT

Refund and Event Policies

This class series is full. If  you have a strong desire to attend a class like this, please consider forming your own group and follow this curriculum:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O0d8s4u9M81nMTz6CQQJRg_6Ahs2CResqQesewR5Nys/mobilebasic
 
Alternatively, if you would like a drop-in class, you may want to check out the Mindful of Whiteness Practice Group on Fridays from 6p-7:30p: https://insightla.org/event/whiteness-group/
 
Please register by Monday 22nd at 6pm. We will meet for 8 consecutive Wednesdays starting June 24th and ending on August 12th. Please commit to all 8 as the sessions build upon one another.
 
The teachings of Insight meditation offers a means for being with the undeniable reality of racial suffering that is present in this moment. As white people, we are often unintentionally complicit in racial suffering and seeing our white privilege can often manifest in feelings of denial, guilt, self-hatred and emotional overwhelm. These things can be difficult to name and even more challenging to hold. Dharma teachings offer us a framework to turn towards suffering with loving awareness, to investigate systemic racial inequality based in ignorance, and respond directly with wisdom and compassion. It is only with the path of practice that we can allow our hearts to break open enough to see clearly the places where our internalized racism has settled and replace it with anti-racism. Uprooting ignorance in our own hearts and minds has the potential to liberate not only us as individuals but also our families and communities.

This course is designed to help us individually and collectively look at the construct of whiteness and to contemplate how it operates internally and externally, as well as historically and systemically. Undertaking this contemplation and exploration means swimming against the stream that is the phenomena of whiteness, because the phenomena of whiteness is sustained through ignorance of itself. Undoing white supremacy and committing to the work of anti-racism is a journey, the work is ongoing and this class is just the beginning.     

During the process of examining our own racial identity, we have become firm believers in the value of non-judgmental awareness. This investigation must be undertaken with compassion. It is our hope that in undertaking this inquiry into white identity, we will commit to a ground of kindness. For this reason, we ask that you commit to fully participate in this training. We hope to build a cohort that will become an ongoing community of mutual support.

The size of this class will be limited to about 30 people and we will ask you to fill out a short questionnaire after you register. Also, there will be required and suggested reading, watching videos and/or podcast listening prior to each class session: this could potentially take about an hour of time each week. Please only register for this class if you can honor this commitment.

 
Class dates:
June 24
July 1
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
August 5
August 12
 
Class time:
8 Wednesdays from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

After registering for this 8 week series, you will receive an email within a couple of minutes containing the Zoom information. This Zoom info will also appear on this event page when you are logged in to your InsightLA account. To create an InsightLA account visit insightla.org/register.

 

Maureen Shannon-Chapple Teacher

Maureen Shannon-Chapple has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation since her teenage years. Her professional life has included classroom teaching, parenting trainings, adult education, and college teaching. She is a 2008 graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader Training, and has led groups including ILA’s Family Program, mindfulness classes, and the weekly... Read more

Joslyn Hitter Teacher

Joslyn B. Hitter has been studying Insight Meditation since 2008. Her approach to Insight Meditation is greatly informed by her Master’s degrees in Counseling and Psychology, and Somatic Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. Joslyn also has a Master’s degree in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.... Read more

Kris Peterson

Kris Peterson is a graduate of InsightLA’s Meditation Facilitator program. She is also a yoga teacher, writer, and professor of anthropology at UC Irvine. Before becoming an academic, Kris worked in the Bay Area as a crisis counselor in homeless and battered women shelters. She was active in a variety of social justice issues and... Read more

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Base Cost $240

Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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