Zen and Work: Supporting clarity, purpose, and happiness in the workplace | San Francisco Zen Center, 3-week Intensive

This is a traditional intensive training period common in the schools of Buddhism. Participants can engage in this training period in one of three ways: as a resident, as a commuter, and online.

This training period is a chance to develop and deepen your practice together with others in a supportive environment and through activities including daily sitting, study, practice discussion with teachers, and weekly sangha discussions. Weekly events include classes, ceremonies, dharma talks, and Tuesday afternoon teas with the leaders of the intensive. During the three weeks students will have the opportunity to meet individually with the leaders and/or other practice leaders.

Susan and Marc will also teach a class on the intensive theme, Zen and Work: How a Zen orientation to work can support clarity, purpose, and happiness in our daily activities. It will meet three Thursday evenings, March 5, 12, 19, 7:30 – 9 pm.

Teas are on Tuesdays, 5:30 – 6:30 pm, March 10 and 17. The intensive concludes with a three-day sesshin, beginning the evening of Wednesday, March 25 and ending on Saturday, March 28.

Three ways to participate in the Intensive

Residential Options

• Work Practice Apprentice (WPA): For those who want to live and work full-time in the temple.
• Limited Resident: For those who want to live in the temple but will not participate in the daily work schedule.

Commuter Option: For those who live off-site but can attend all or part of the practice schedule on-site.

Online Option: For those whose schedule or location doesn’t allow for regular on-site attendance of temple events.