BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clear Sky Meditation Centre - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Clear Sky Meditation Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clear Sky Meditation Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20260308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20270314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20271107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261231T170000 DTSTAMP:20250825T062119Z CREATED:20220205T181428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T062119Z UID:14666-1695888000-1798736400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Personal Coaching DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre you ready to unfold?\nGiven Covid-19 and the big life-changes many of us are experiencing\, this is a perfect time to receive support in areas that may need deep care or are holding us back. We can use this unique time to nurture what is seeking our attention or we might not have prioritized before.  \nKaren McAllister and Duncan Cryle are offering live group coaching to a smaller group\, exclusively to graduates of the Integrating Mindfulness course. \n REGISTER HERE \nFor those looking to go deeper\n \nOur personal coaching program is for you if after completing our 6 week Integrating Mindfulness Online Course\, you want to go deeper. As we only had a little time on each principle during the course\, 1:1 coaching supports you to take a deep dive into one or two areas in your life that are calling for your attention. Many people join our group coaching sessions after Integrating Mindfulness\, but you might find group-work triggers more protectiveness in you than it does vulnerability\, being real\, and exploring what you really need right now.  \nMaybe life is calling you to change. What used to work\, no longer does. You’re ready to answer the call to change. You want to wake up more deeply and step more fully into your power. You now have clarity and strength to be with and explore past hurts\, patterns\, relationships and or beliefs that are holding you back. You may have tried new routines with meditation and yoga\, new diets and even explored how to improve your relationships with yourself\, others\, money\, and time. The thing is\, often we can’t shift habitual patterns without understanding what’s holding them in place and why. The reason these may not have worked is that you may have lacked support from someone with experience to see behind the appearance to what is driving the behaviour you want to shift.  \nAbout the Program\nWe have seen that personal coaching with Karen and Duncan frees up energy and has led to the following:  \n\nDeeper involvement in spiritual teachings\, relationships and service with community\nMore emotional honesty\nMore relaxation and joy\nA career path plan that is in alignment with your vision and values\nImproved relationships\nA new business\nImproved finances\nBetter time management\n\nHere is what we can offer you:  \n\n15 mins free consultation (to connect and see if a coaching program could support you)\nFour 1:1 personal coaching sessions for anyone who has attended Integrating Mindfulness.\nPay from the heart min $75 max $250/hr \n\nLogistics: \n\nRegister and commit to a series or one session\nBook your first call on the calendar link provided in the registration confirmation email\nSet time aside prior to your first call to get clear on what it is that you want to work on.\nCalls will be over zoom and we recommend that you set aside 15-60 minutes before and after for prep and integration.\nSet aside a minimum of 2 hours per week to work on this.\n\n \nMeet Your Coaches\nKaren and Duncan have both been on their spiritual paths for over 20 years working closely with highly accomplished teachers\, Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, while also living in and supporting conscious community the entire time. They have been through many personal transformations themselves and led many others along the way. They are gifted at holding a beautiful and safe space for you as you peel back the layers.  \nExperienced and professionals in their careers\, Karen is a certified coach and Duncan a former IBM executive. They can provide guidance\, mentorship\, and structures for you to dig more deeply and be accountable to yourself without being fooled by your own stories. If you are willing to share what’s really going on by being emotionally honest\, listening\, receiving and following through on feedback\, you can benefit from working with a coach that is walking their talk\, a coach that has addressed their own challenges and deeper issues around aspects of the spiritual container in their lives. For this reason\, they can give real live\, experiential guidance and mentorship in these areas.  \n \nKaren McAllister\nAfter meeting our founding teachers in Japan\, I managed the meditation centre there for many years while serving simultaneously as part of the Clear Sky Board. In 2003\, I helped search for a site for Clear Sky\, looking at around 30 properties until we found our current location in the magical Kootenays. \nI’m now Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development. I’m passionate to be teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing the factors – like honor your space\, structure\, and communication – that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky\, as the centre went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!” \nIn my free time\, I love travelling\, speaking Portuguese and reading history\, architecture\, and art books. \n Talk with Karen \nDuncan Cryle\nI’m the former Clear Sky Chair\, a certified Mindfulness teacher\, Dharma teacher\, and a member of senior management at a dynamic award winning international software firm. \nThrough 15 years of teaching meditation and mindfulness\, alongside an active career working all over the world\, I’ve learnt a lot about an integrated spiritual path.  With a Ph.D. in philosophy in my pocket\, I was gung ho to join a monastery until I met my root teachers Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in Japan in 2001\, who turned my views upside down and encouraged me to grow and contribute at the busy end of life! \nA founding member of Clear Sky in 2004\, I’m amazed at the power that working together in compassionate service has for enriching and widening spiritual growth.  Combined with a dynamic relationship and a challenging career\, I have fun with a wide-ranging and holistic approach to spiritual growth. \nEmail me at Duncan [at] clearskycenter.org to ask about personal coaching with me. \n Contact Duncan “I am at the point now where I feel ready to apply for school\, to change direction in my career\, and better understand how my relationship with my father has created this. I have stopped hanging on to some of the past to protect the hurt\, which has made me feel more ready to move on.” Kyle “Karen is both knowledgeable and kind. Not only is she wise and helpful with Buddhist teachings\, but when she shares it is from the heart with incredible tenderness.” Kakoom REGISTER NOW \nLatest News URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/personal-coaching-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Coaching ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-13-at-10.49.12-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261001T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261004T120000 DTSTAMP:20260827T163716Z CREATED:20260407T165111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T163716Z UID:28760-1790848800-1791115200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Healing Love\, Healing Money (Online) DESCRIPTION:Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture\nA Four-Day Live Online Course in partnership between Clear Sky Center and Tamera. \nHosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky and  Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera \nOctober 1-4\, 202610am–12pm MDT / 12–2pm EDT / 5–7pm BST / 6–8pm CEST \n  \n \nThis course explores a simple but rarely examined question: \nWhat if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? \nAnd what if the way we’ve learned to love is shaping the way we earn\, spend\, give and receive? \nOver four days\, we explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour and how healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. \nNot ready to commit? Join our free one-hour intro webinar first on Sept 16 or 17. \nWhy This Course?\nThis course emerged from two parallel inquiries that unexpectedly led to the same place. \nClear Sky Center is a Buddhist-inspired contemplative community and retreat centre in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia\, Canada. Tamera is a peace research community of around 160 people in southern Portugal\, with decades of experience exploring trust\, love\, and the foundations of a new culture through their Global Love School. Both communities have spent years asking how we might live\, love\, and organise ourselves more honestly. Both arrived\, from very different directions\, at the same territory. \nKaren McAllister began exploring people’s relationship with money in 2010 while helping lead Clear Sky through significant financial challenges. What appeared to be financial issues often revealed something much deeper: wounds around safety\, belonging\, and power. Over time\, this work expanded from individuals to couples\, organisations\, and communities. Again and again\, the same pattern emerged. Money was rarely just about money. It revealed deeper questions: \nWill I be okay? Do I belong? Do I have a voice? \nIn 2025\, Karen and Duncan visited Tamera in Portugal to learn more about the Love School and its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and community. There they had deep and generative conversations with members of Tamera around the striking parallels between the wounds people carry around money and the wounds they carry around love. \nBoth touch our deepest fears and longings. Both reveal where trust has been broken. Both invite healing. \nThis collaboration was born from a shared recognition that healing our relationship with money and healing our relationship with love are not separate journeys. They are part of the same movement toward greater trust\, freedom\, creativity\, and service. \nIn 2025\, Karen and Duncan visited Tamera in Portugal to learn more about the Love School and its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and community. There they had deep and generative conversations with members of Tamera around the striking parallels between the wounds people carry around money and the wounds they carry around love. \nBoth touch our deepest fears and longings. Both reveal where trust has been broken. Both invite healing. \nThis collaboration was born from a shared recognition that healing our relationship with money and healing our relationship with love are not separate journeys. They are part of the same movement toward greater trust\, freedom\, creativity\, and service. \nhttps://youtu.be/R8B4PVpfcO4 \n To find out more\, here is a warm unscripted conversation about how this collaboration actually came to be – a community nearly going bankrupt\, a friendship that began as something else entirely\, and how t it became clear that love and money aren’t separate wounds at all. \nWho Is This Course For?\nThis course is for spiritual practitioners\, community builders\, coaches\, healers\, leaders\, and thoughtful human beings who want to understand how survival\, belonging\, love\, money\, and power shape their lives. It is relevant for anyone seeking healthier relationships with themselves\, with others\, with money\, and with the communities and cultures they participate in\, whether those are families\, workplaces\, spiritual groups\, or intentional communities. \nIf you are curious about trust\, intimacy\, community\, and cultural healing and willing to explore your own patterns with honesty and compassion\, you will likely feel at home here. \n \n \n \n \n Register Now\n \nAgenda\nOct 1st — The Roots of FearWhy Money Anxiety Is Not Just About Money \nWe begin by exploring how: \n\nfear of exclusion shows up as financial stress\nscarcity responses live in the nervous system\ncollective trauma influences earning\, saving and giving\nmoney becomes a proxy for safety and belonging\n\nParticipants will: \n\nstart to map their early survival adaptations around both love and money\nlearn introductory groundwork to notice grasping\, avoidance or control patterns\nbegin tracking somatic responses to financial and relational stress\n\nOct 2nd — Love\, Possession & PowerThe Hidden Economic Training Ground of Relationship \nThis session looks at: \n\nownership in love and ownership in the economy\njealousy\, control and financial secrecy\nhow partnership becomes an economic unit\nthe influence of patriarchal conditioning on intimacy and livelihood\n\nParticipants will: \n\nstep into exploring communication patterns around money and intimacy\nembark on identifying inherited relational and financial agreements\nundertake the practice of truth-telling in a carefully held small-group setting\n\nOct 3rd — Trust as InfrastructureCommunity as a Container for Healing \nWe examine why: \n\nhealing often fails when kept private\nboth love and money tend to isolate us\ntrust requires social structures\, not just personal insight\nnew relational agreements create economic safety\n\nParticipants will: \n\nwork in small pods to explore feedback and witnessing\nexperiment with shared inquiry around resource and care\nreflect on what supports transparency in both love and livelihood\n\nOct 4th — Ethical LivelihoodFrom Private Survival to Collective Sufficiency \nWe close by exploring: \n\nwhat “enough” really means\npurpose-aligned earning\ngenerosity and reciprocity\nlivelihood as participation in cultural healing\n\nParticipants will: \n\nset out on clarifying values around work and contribution\ncontemplate giving\, receiving and sustainability\nsow the seeds for creating a personal practice that aligns love\, money and service\n\n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n https://youtu.be/CG4MiBKOmp8 \nGet a sense of the teachers and the rich exploration in this course. In this clip Monika\, Karen\, Ben and Duncan share a lively discussion on what becomes possible when we loosen the grip of scarcity: in community\, in relationship\, and in how we share what we have. \n \nThroughout the Course\n\nshort meditation practices\nrelational inquiry exercises\nsomatic awareness practices\nbuddy conversations\noptional journaling prompts\n\nThe emphasis is on: \n\nslow integration\nshared learning\nrelational repair\nand honest dialogue\n\nIntended Outcomes\nBy the end of the four days\, participants may notice: \n\nless isolation around money or relationship struggles\nincreased capacity for truthful communication\nclearer alignment between values and livelihood\ngreater ease in giving and receiving\na shift from private survival toward shared sufficiency\n\n  \nWhere Might This Lead?\nThis pilot is intended as a beginning rather than a complete journey. Depending on participant interest and what emerges from our collaboration\, future opportunities may include: \n\nA longer 8–12 week course\nA deeper exploration of healing love and healing money\nContinued learning through Clear Sky’s programs and practice community\nOpportunities to engage with Tamera’s work and offerings\nNew collaborative programs developed by the facilitators\n\nThese are possibilities rather than commitments\, and we look forward to discovering what wants to emerge together. \nIs This Course For Me?\nMoney and relationships are among the most emotionally charged areas of human life because they touch our experiences of safety\, belonging\, attachment\, and power. \nThis course invites participants into meaningful personal inquiry. Strong emotions\, familiar patterns\, or old stories may arise as part of the process. \nFor this reason\, we work slowly and with care\, using meditation\, somatic awareness\, reflective exercises\, and supportive dialogue practices. \nParticipants are always encouraged to honour their own pace and boundaries. \nWhile this course is educational rather than therapeutic\, it is designed with trauma-awareness and nervous-system sensitivity in mind. \nNot Sure Yet? Join Us For A Free Intro Webinar To Find Out More\nIf you’d like to get a feel for how we teach together before committing to the full course\, join us for a free one-hour intro webinar. There are two dates to choose from: \nWednesday\, September 16 | 7–8pm MDTThursday\, September 17 | 10–11am MDT \nWe’ll explore some of the course’s core questions live\, and you’ll get a direct sense of us before deciding if this is the right container for you. \nhttps://youtu.be/ZwbNIAvZrGU \nCan we really heal? This work can bring up real grief for what’s been broken\, for patterns we’re only now seeing clearly. All four of us believe healing is not only possible\, it’s natural. Here we share what gives us hope and what becomes possible when we do this work together. \n \n Find Out More And Register For A Free Introductory Webinar\n \nPricing\n\nCAD $450 to CAD $550 – Pay-It-Forward Helps make supported spaces possible for others and strengthens the collective container.\nCAD $350 to CAD $450 – Full Contribution (Sustaining Rate) Reflects the true value of the course and supports the continuity of this work.\nCAD $200 to CAD $350 – Supported Access For those with limited income\, in transition\, or experiencing financial constraint at this time.\n\nNote: for members of Lighthouse Spokane\, with much appreciation to the UUA New Communities Partnership Program some scholarships to this program are available. Please contact your Lighthouse Spokane organizers for details. \n \n \n Register Now\n \nYour Teaching Team\n \nKaren McAllister\nKaren McAllister is a contemplative leader\, senior meditation teacher\, certified money coach\, Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky Meditation Centre and co-founding member of Clear Sky Meditation Centre. \n Keep Reading \nFor more than fifteen years she has explored how our deepest patterns around safety\, belonging\, worth\, and power shape both our relationship with money and our relationships with one another. Her work began while helping lead Clear Sky through significant financial challenges and evolved into supporting individuals\, couples\, communities\, nonprofits\, and values-based organizations in transforming their relationship with money. \nAlongside her professional work\, Karen’s own life has been a laboratory for exploring trust\, partnership\, intimacy\, and community. Living and practising within intentional community for more than two decades has shown her that many of the fears and attachments that emerge around money also emerge in love. Questions of security\, freedom\, honesty\, belonging\, and power often sit beneath both. \nHer approach integrates meditation\, somatic awareness\, relational inquiry\, and practical financial coaching\, supporting people to move from survival-based patterns toward greater trust\, authenticity\, connection\, and service. \nKaren is passionate about helping people discover that money is not merely a resource to manage but a relationship that can become a path of awakening. \n \nDuncan Cryle\nDuncan Cryle is a co-founding member and Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky Meditation Centre. He brings together over twenty years of meditation practice\, organizational leadership\, systems thinking\, and community development. \n Keep Reading \nWhile much of Duncan’s work has focused on financial stewardship\, governance\, and building resilient systems\, his deeper interest lies in the relationship between transparency\, trust\, and human connection. Through decades of living\, leading\, and partnering within intentional community\, he has explored how honesty\, accountability\, freedom\, and mutual care can support both healthy relationships and healthy cultures. \nTogether with Karen\, Duncan has spent many years examining how money\, power\, intimacy\, and community influence one another. Their shared journey has revealed that healing often begins when difficult conversations become possible and when trust is supported by both personal practice and collective structures. \nDuncan brings a grounded and practical perspective to the course\, helping participants explore how relational insights can be translated into sustainable agreements\, healthy systems\, and meaningful cultural change. \n \n Monika Alleweldt\nBorn 1954 in Giessen\, Germany\, M.Sc. (Agriculture)\, works for many years for and with the “Plan of Healing Biotopes”. Since 2001 she mainly lives in Tamera\, Portugal.  \n Keep Reading \nUntil 2024 she was one of the owners of the publishing house Meiga. Since her early youth she aspired to a career in helping people in need all over the world. As a young student\, she travels to Guatemala as part of her studies. The trip becomes a turning point in her life. \nShe realizes that help alone does not change anything. Symptoms can be alleviated\, but the cause of the suffering is not eliminated. So what is the right approach? A serious illness forces her to return home early and leads her to an existential decision. She completes her studies but then leaves her professional career and sets out to find an answer that gives hope. She examines many paths\, contacts different people and initiatives. \nFinally she finds convincing answers in the work of Dieter Duhm. A cooperation begins that continues to this day. In 2021 she finishes her first book titled „Global Liberation from Fear and Violence“ (in German). \nToday\, she is joining with other women to bring forth a second book\, provisionally titled Women’s Solidarity: The End of Collective Repression. The End of Patriarchy — a work that envisions a new feminine consciousness\, and a deep reverence for\, and love of\, the masculine. \n \nBenjamin von Mendelssohn\nBorn into a once-wealthy\, culturally significant Jewish banking family in Germany\, the issues of reconciliation\, politics and money accompanied Benjamin from his early years. \n Keep Reading \nAfter a radical but frustrating period of political engagement in his youth\, Benjamin started to explore holistic approaches to bringing about change. To this end he co-founded the Peace University at Potsdam and later researched into many social experiments and intentional communities. \nAlthough he trained as a healer\, dancer and choreographer Benjamin retained a focus on new models for living and a passion for complex synergies and systems theory. Creating syntheses of seemingly opposing forces is important to him – politics and spirituality; vision work and concrete manifestation; Eros and religion; free sexuality and deep\, committed partnership; nature and technology and most critically inner and outer peace work. \nBenjamin has been living and researching in Tamera since 1998 where he now serves as a next-generation leader. He has been co-leading The Global Love School since its inauguration in 2012 and was director of the Grace Foundation for Humanising Money for 15 years. URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Healing-Love-Healing-Money-SQUARE-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261017T130000 DTSTAMP:20260921T022741Z CREATED:20260921T021931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T022741Z UID:30539-1792238400-1792242000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Creating Refuge And Resilience In Fragmented Times DESCRIPTION:Creating Refuge In Fragmented Times\n(Free Intro Webinar)\nWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle \nWe are offering two different date/time options you can join: \nWednesday 14th October 7-8 pm MT (6-7 pm PST) \nOr \nSaturday 17th October Noon-1 pm MT (11am-Noon PST) \n \n Join Wed 14 Oct 7-8 pm MT\n \n \n Join Sat 17 Oct Noon-1 pm MT\n \nWe are living through a polycrisis — climate chaos\, technological disruption\, democratic instability\, a rising tide of disconnection and nihilism. It’s not one crisis to solve. It’s many\, intersecting\, all at once. In times like these\, resilience isn’t about “bouncing back” to how things were. It’s about learning to bounce forward — building the inner and outer structures that let us stay whole\, stay open\, and stay of service\, even while the ground keeps shifting. \nYou meditate. You do your own inner work. And yet you still feel scattered by everything pulling at you — the habits draining your energy\, the relationships you can’t quite navigate\, the routines that keep slipping\, the world’s suffering that keeps finding its way into your nervous system. \nHaving the practices isn’t the same as having a container to hold them. \nJust as a seed needs the shelter of soil to grow\, and a retreat center can become a refuge — a “refugia\,” a place where life continues and new possibility emerges amid disruption — you need a supportive container in your own daily life. Not a bypass from the world’s difficulty\, but a structure strong enough to meet it from steadiness rather than depletion. \nThis free one-hour webinar is an invitation to explore what that container could look like for you. \nWhat We’ll Explore\n\nWhy willpower and good intentions aren’t enough — and what a true “supportive container” actually provides\nAn introduction to Clear Sky’s Five Principles: Honoring Space\, Structure\, Communication\, Cleaning Up Big Areas\, and Working With Others\nHow personal resilience and collective resilience are woven together — the inner work that makes real outer action possible\nA taste of our teaching style\, and whether this approach is the right fit for you right now\n\nSession Details\n\nWhen: Join either Wed 14th Oct 2026 7-8 pm MT (6-7 pm PST) or Sat 17th Oct 2026 Noon-1pm MT (11am-Noon PST)\nFormat: Live online via Zoom (recording available)\nCost: Free \n\n \n Join Wed 14 Oct 7-8 pm MT\n \n \n Join Sat 17 Oct Noon-1pm MT\n \n\n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n “You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave.”\n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \nWhat to Expect\nEach session in the series weaves together: \n\nTeaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world application\nGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessions\nReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrain\nIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion\n\n\n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n Join Wed 14 Oct 7-8 pm MT\n \n \n Join Sat 17 Oct Noon-1 pm MT\n \nGoing Deeper: The Full Course\nThis webinar is a taste of Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living\, our 4-week course  – Saturdays Oct 24\, 31\, Nov 7\, 14. The course is to help you build a supportive container — not just for your meditation practice\, but for your entire life: your spaces\, your routines\, your relationships\, and the big areas that quietly drain your energy. \nIn fragmented times\, this work matters beyond the personal. A steadier you is a more resourced\, more available you — for your family\, your community\, and the wider world asking for our care right now. \nAccessible sliding-scale pricing: $200–500 CAD according to your means. \n \n Learn more about the Integrating Mindfulness course\n \n \n \nYour Guides For The Series\nDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. \nKaren McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n “Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms.”\n Kristi\n \n Join Wed 14 Oct 7-8 pm MT\n \n \n Join Sat 17 Oct Noon-1 pm MT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/creating-refuge-in-fragmented-times/2026-10-17/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Staying Whole Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Creating-Refuge-Feature-Image_Small.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261108T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T024719Z CREATED:20260422T022709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T024719Z UID:29193-1794130200-1795971600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Power in Tantric Traditions (Online) DESCRIPTION:Power in Tantric Traditions: Four-Week Online Course\nDo you feel empowered in your practice? In Buddha nature? Showing up authentically with both courage and vulnerability can support our sense of empowerment. \nIn these confusing contemporary times\, such genuine empowerment is essential for tantric practitioners. \nIn this online series\, Catherine Sensei and Right Use of Power and Authentic Leadership teacher Susan Skjei teach together about what power and empowerment mean in the context of tantric spiritual practices. This course aims to empower you to weave every moment with exactly the energy that is needed. \nIn this age of confusion about what we can believe and who we can trust\, many of us may feel disempowered at times. Victim culture is often more supported than empowered culture. Uncertainty about the future of humanity and the planet can shake our confidence to its core. \nAnd when scandals happen with spiritual leaders – often around money\, sex\, and power – it can leave tantric practitioners wondering: What does authentic empowerment actually look like? What is my power? How can I strengthen it? How can I ethically wield it? This course attends to these questions and issues\, pressing ones for contemporary tantra practitioners. \nNovember 8 – November 29\, 2026 \nSunday morning online classes 9:30-11:00am MT\, Nov 8\, Nov 15 and Nov 22 \nSaturday & Sunday November 28-29 – 9:30am and 2:30pm (approx 60-90 min) \n\nRegistration\n \nfocus area\nBuddhism \nPower \npractice\nCourse & Optional \nHome Retreat \nDuration\nFour \nWeeks \nDay/Time\nSundays from 9:30-11am MT \nformat\nIn-Person or \nOnline \nThe Path Forward: Your Practice Holds the Key to True Empowerment.\nDo you feel strong and safe in your tantric practice? In your authentic presence? Do you have the resources you need to support others to feel empowered? \nPrimarily\, our practice helps us become a person who is authentic and therefore trustworthy – for ourselves and for others. This is part of what non-duality is about. The confusion of our times and world leaders doesn’t have to lead to our disempowerment. This course shares how our practice helps us to weave authenticity\, trustworthiness\, personal power\, and empowerment together. \nAs symbols representing the lower three chakras\, authenticity related to money\, sex\, and power form the foundation of our being\, energetically and in the material world. Catherine Sensei and her partner and teacher Qapel have taught that money and sex are often\, the handmaidens of power\, and that the spiritual path is a quest for the truest and most deep-rooted empowerment there is. \nIn this course\, Catherine Sensei and Susan Skjei teach on what power and empowerment mean for tantric practitioners\, drawing on tantric teachings\, Authentic Leadership\, and Right Use of Power to provide an important framework for understanding power in traditional and modern tantric traditions – empowering us to weave every moment with exactly the energy that is needed. \n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n“In 10 years I have NOT missed a course with master teachers Qapel and Sensei! Every class reflects the light of oneness in prisms of direction and understanding and thus a lighter load to carry in the relative world and a lightness of being. If one aspires to be a bodhisattva and to benefit all beings\, this one recommends the next one.”\nBrendan R. \nWhat You’ll Learn\nIn Power in Tantric Traditions\, you’ll discover: \n\nHow to be empowered as a tantric practitioner in uncertain times\nHow to feel strong in your tantric practice and tradition\nA deeper understanding of tantra in the context of Buddhism\nHow to be trustworthy for yourself and others through non-dual practice\nThe resources to support others to feel empowered\n\nThis course weaves together the wisdom of tantric Buddhism with proven frameworks for Authentic Leadership and the Right Use of Power\, giving you practical tools to embody empowerment in every moment. \n \nCourse Schedule\nNovember 8 – 29\, 2026 \nClass Times (Mountain Time)\n\nNovember 8 – 9:30-11am\nNovember 15 – 9:30-11am\nNovember 22 – 9:30-11am\nSaturday & Sunday November 28-29 – 9:30am and 2:30pm (approx 60-90 min)\n\nThe formal and participatory teachings for this course will occur on Sundays\, with a separate registration for the Saturday-Sunday flash retreat on the fourth weekend. Class times are estimates and may change slightly. \nWe encourage you to connect with Sangha outside of class times to discuss and deepen your learning of the material. \nFlash Retreat Weekend: November 28-29\nTo deepen and integrate your experience\, the final (fourth) weekend during the course will also be a Flash Retreat (August 15-16)\, offered by a separate registration\, which will include exercises to engage in. This can be done at home\, or with us at Clear Sky Meditation Centre in Eastern British Columbia. \nFormal group sessions will be held at these approximate times: \n\nFlash Retreat morning session: 9:30am MT\nFlash Retreat afternoon session: 2:30pm MT\nSessions will be 60-90 mins in length.\n\n\n \nMeet the Teachers\n\n \nCatherine Pawasarat Sensei\nCatherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. \nShe trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan as his attendant and consort from 1998 until his passing in 2024\, in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \nMore About Sensei | About the Lineage \nSusan Skjei\, Ph.D\nSusan Skjei\, Ph.D. has been a practitioner and Senior Teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist Community for the last 30 years. She has taught many programs and led retreats in the US\, Canada and Europe. She studied with Chogyam Trungpa\, Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as well as other Tibetan Buddhist and Zen teachers. Susan is also a leadership coach and organizational consultant. She has been a catalyst for positive change for leaders\, executive teams and boards of nonprofit organizations\, businesses\, and government agencies for over 25 years. She enjoys creating energetic and high trust learning environments that accelerate practical organizational results while building strong\, collaborative relationships. Formerly Susan was a Vice-President and Chief Learning Officer in the technology industry\, a co-founder of the ALIA Institute\, and the founding Director of the Authentic Leadership Center at Naropa University. She loves being in nature and enjoys hiking\, biking and watercolor painting. \n\nRegister Now\n\n“The teachers have brought together ancient teachings with scientific findings that prove how and why Dharma teachings radically improve life\, reduce pain and increase global peace. It doesn’t matter what you believe\, you will embody a healthy new way of being. Because of their vast collective wisdom\, you leave their presence radically altered for the betterment of humanity.”\nEvangelos D.\n \nFAQs\nWhat is the main focus of the Power in Tantric Traditions course? \nThis 4-week series explores what empowerment means within Tantric Buddhism. It teaches practitioners how to navigate money\, sex\, and power using proven frameworks from Authentic Leadership and the Dharma. \nWho are the teachers for this course and what are their backgrounds? \nCatherine Pawasarat Sensei\, a contemporary Dharma teacher\, collaborates with Susan Skjei\, Ph.D.\, an Authentic Leadership coach. Together\, they bridge ancient Buddhist wisdom with modern\, ethical leadership and empowerment frameworks. \nHow does this course help me feel more empowered during uncertain times?\nThe course provides practical tools to move beyond victim culture. By strengthening your spiritual practice and understanding non-duality\, you will develop the internal resources needed to remain resilient.\nWhy does the course focus specifically on money\, sex\, and power? \nThese foundational energies are often the “handmaidens of power.” Understanding them through a spiritual lens helps practitioners build trustworthiness and prevents the scandals often seen in modern spiritual communities. \nIs this course suitable for beginners in Tantric practice? \nYes\, the course is open to any practitioner with an open mind. It is designed to deepen your understanding of power\, whether you are new or highly experienced in spirituality. \nHow does non-dual practice help me become more trustworthy for others? \nNon-dual practice clarifies confusion\, helping you become a more reliable person. By aligning your actions with your practice\, you provide a stable\, empowered presence that supports yourself and the community. \nWhat practical resources will I gain from participating in this series? \nYou will discover how to feel strong in your tradition\, understand Tantra within Buddhism more deeply\, and gain leadership resources to support the empowerment of those around you. \nDana and Pricing \nDana: \nYou may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity.” With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. \nThe dharma has been built on generosity. No one is excluded for lack of funds. However\, it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able. \nTypically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course. \nAs we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure. Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us. \nIf you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. \nLearn more about the practice of dāna here. \nAbout the Online Admin Fee \nIn a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. \nWe’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. \nThe admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, the costs of setting up good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online can be surprising. \nOur admin fee changes based on the date of registration. \nRegister four + weeks prior: $80\nRegister two to four weeks prior: $100\nRegister less than two weeks prior: $120 \n*We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. \n— \nBelow are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: \n\nHigh speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)\nOnline class systems (Zoom)\nRegistration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)\nCommunication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)\nOnline storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)\nQuality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.\nOnline calendar booking system to allow students to book interviews\nWebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.\n\nWe welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/power-in-tantric-traditions/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Power-in-Tantric-traditions-2026-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR