Retreat Resource Guide
Seattle Insight Meditation Society Phillip Moffitt Non-residential Weekend Retreat December 2 – 4, 2022
Dharma Insight that Leads to Inner and Outer Change
Retreat Participant Resource Guide
Phillip Moffitt is a Buddhist meditation teacher and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served as Co-Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center from 2010 – 2018.
Phillip is an honorary co-founder and the creator of the practice method that is the focus of the nonprofit organization Dharma Ground, which offers online Insight retreats and classes integrating Nine Bodies Insight teachings and the dharma.
Phillip is also the founder and president of Life Balance Institute. In his work through the Institute, he offers programs, trainings, and individual sessions focused on how to develop well-being through living a values-based life and how to skillfully make major life transitions.
He is the author of three books: Awakening through the Nine Bodies, Emotional Chaos to Clarity, and Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering.
For more information, please visit Dharma Wisdom, Dharma Ground, and Life Balance Institute.
Further Study Materials by Phillip Moffitt
Talk: How Pleasant & Unpleasant Feelings Prevent Conscious Choice
Article: Knowing What’s Really Happening: Experience vs. Interpretation
Talk: Working with Our Inner Gold
Sign Up for Free Weekly Teachings from Phillip’s books Dancing with Life and Emotional Chaos to Clarity
Phillip’s Upcoming Teaching Events
December 9 – 11, 2022
Online: Forgiveness, Surrender, and Accountability: Dharma Skills for Responding to the Inevitable Tensions of Life, British Columbia Insight Meditation Society
January 1, 2023
Online: Evening Guided Meditation and Dharma Talk, Marin Sangha
January 2, 2023
Online: Monday Night Class, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
January 13 – 15, 2023
Online: Changes and Transitions in Your 40s and 50s, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2023 – 2025 Life Balance Strategist Training Program
This multi-year, five-retreat professional training program will teach you the perspectives, protocols, and tools that Phillip has been using for 35 years in his work with leaders and professionals of all kinds to support them in living a values-based life infused with more intention, meaning, and purpose.
In the training, you learn how to work with individual clients and how to teach a variety of programs including daylongs, weekend workshops, and class series using the Life Balance and Changes and Transitions modalities. As a practitioner of this approach, you work with students and clients who are going through major life transitions and wish to develop their capacity for sustained well-being.
The training program begins in September 2023 and applications are due by January 27, 2023.
For more information and to apply, please visit Life Balance Institute.
