Teachers, this two day weekend retreat is just for you.
You’re always pouring time and energy into your classroom and your students.
This is the moment to pour some time into yourself and enjoy some space to rest, to reflect and to revitalize yourself in a beautiful setting. This retreat is ideal for anyone who has never encountered mindfulness as well as for those people who have more experience in the practice.
Together we will learn and practice multiple meditation techniques, enjoy wholesome meals, share our experiences and learn new ways to nurture and restore ourselves, based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition.
Here is what the schedule might look like :
Friday
4 p.m.: Arrival
5:30 p.m.: Welcome
6 p.m.: Mindful dinner
8 p.m.: Total relaxation
9 p.m.: Noble silence
Saturday
6:30 a.m. – 7 a.m.: Guided meditation
7 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.: Optional: mindful movements
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.: Breakfast
9.30 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Teaching: orientation
11.30 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Mindful Walking
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Total relaxation
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Sharing
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: Dinner
8 p.m. – Guided meditation
Sunday
6:30 a.m. – 7 a.m.: Sitting meditation
7 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.: Optional- Mindful movements
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.: Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Teaching + Q&A
12 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Mindful walking
2:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Closing circle
Retreat in French and English — no German translation
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Accommodation and meals will be settled directly with the Landguet Ried.
This event is based on donations (dāna).
In the tradition of retreats such as this any money for the teachers will be accepted as dāna, as a donation, at the end of the retreat.
Jackson Ferguson
Physics engineer from EPFL. Maths and physics teacher in a college in the canton of Vaud since 2011. Trained in meditation and mindfulness practices at Plum Village since 2011. He took the MBSR course in Lausanne in 2014 and the "Mindfulness in School Project” training in 2016 in London.
He has been transmitting these practices to teenagers since 2013. He gave workshops for teachers and employees of an EPFL Start-up in 2018 and 2019. Currently, he leads a meditation practice group for young people at the CHUV and is training as a meditation instructor at Fabrice Midal's meditation school.
Caromai Bouquet
Mindfulness and meditation trainer. 18-years training at the international practice center “Le village des Pruniers”, founded by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in the practices of mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist psychology.
As part of this center she gave seminars and training in the fields of education, health, deep ecology, inclusivity (racial and for the LGBTIQ+ community in particular) and for social activists, children, teenagers and young adults in Europe, Asia and the United States.
In 2020, she followed the Mindfulness Solidaire course.
In September 2021, she became a mindfulness trainer with the Eurasia Association, which works to develop socio-emotional skills in schools and businesses. She is currently following a CAS at the Geneva School of Management on "Happiness in organizations".
Florent Mamet
Physics engineer from the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble. He followed a course of study and practice of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy in which he learned meditation at the Ripe Dorje Institute in Nepal. After working for five years at Nestlé as a physicist, he became a maths and physics teacher in a college in the canton of Vaud in 2012. Along with his teaching, he began to transmit attentional practices and emotional management to adolescents since 2014.
He trained in the .b course of the “Mindfulness in School Project” in 2016 in London and took the CEB (Cultivating Emotional Balance) course in 2017. He gave workshops for teachers and employees of a EPFL start-up in 2018 and 2019. Currently, he leads a lay practice group for adults in a practice center in Lausanne.