Upcoming Events for 2009


Happy New Year everyone!

This coming year we hope to have a wide range of events for the UK Zen Peacemakers. There will be Zen Peacemaker Circle meetings in Manchester and Leeds, informal meditation group meetings in Manchester, regular Zen training in Leicester and a range of one-off events. we hope to hold workshops at least on Non-Violent Communication, Persian Drumming, Western Spiritual Philosophers, and our annual Celebration of the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi.

We will also be offering a series of weekend workshops taught by visiting Zen teachers! this include:

Barbara Wegmueller, who some of you will know already. She's a Zen teacher, a Buddhist preceptor, a peace activist, and European Coordinator for the Circle approach to Zen practice. She'll be coming to lead a workshop on the '5 Buddha Energies'- a way of looking at the aspects of your life and personality and bringing them into wholeness.


Roland Wegmueller, Barbara's husband, who most of you haven't met. He's also a zen teacher, and a GP in Switzerland. His early training was in Shamanism- whilst admistering a vaccination program in West Africa he was trained by local healers and fully qualified as a traditional shamansitic healer. He followed this by many years of Sufi meditation practice in the lineage of Irene Tweedie. He's now a Zen teacher and preceptor with together his wife. He will be coming to lead a Zen Sesshin (meditation retreat) for us.


Father Patrick Eastman is a Catholic priest and zen teacher who lives near Bath. He's a student of Roshi Robert Kennedy, a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who's one of the senior teachers in the White Plum lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Father Eastman teaches a community called the Wild Goose Sangha, and he'll be coming to lead a workshop on Zen for us.


Finally, later in the year, we hope to have a workshop led by Sensei Paul Genki Kahn. Sensei Genki is Bernie Glassman's appointed successor to lead the international Zen Peacemakers community. He has 40 years experience of Zen practice, leading socially-engaged projects, and he's also a yoga teacher. He'll be leading Zen training with us.

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