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Pfeiffer Nature Center – Saturday Night Drumming with Lantern...
Note: This event will take place at the Pfeiffer Nature Center, NOT the Olean Meditation Center. Saturday, July 1st Start Time: 7:45 pm Program Length: 1.5 hrs. What can be more “de-stressing” than drumming? The side effects of drumming are many: focus and clarity, enhanced creativity, energy, pain reduction and happiness. Mary K Sturdevant, [...]
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Mindful Families June 2017: Resilience!
The Olean Meditation Center will host its monthly Mindful Families gathering Saturday, June 17, from 10 a.m. – noon. Our theme for this month is: Resilience! (Not in the sense of simply brushing dirt off our shoulders, but instead, learning from our challenges and treating ourselves with kindness always, in order to cultivate true inner [...]
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Contemplation & Action in the Franciscan Tradition
Saturday, June 10, 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., $20 or donation Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is Professor of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure. With wit, charm, and insight, he is well-known for engaging general audiences on the lives of Francis, Clare, and the early Franciscans and what we might learn from them. “Always [...]
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Spring Saturday Programs: Meditation & Beloved Community
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Free Tuesday Evening Presentations at OMC
Everyone is warmly invited to OMC’s FREE Tuesday evening series. Presentations are scheduled from 7 – 8:30 p.m. and include: an interfaith panel discussion about compassion for all humans (Feb. 28), a Franciscan friar’s experiences with contemplative prayer (March 7), a beginner’s guide to meditation (April 4), an exploration of the Islamic holy city of Najaf (April 25), a [...]
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