Showing posts with label Improve Our Conscious Contact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Improve Our Conscious Contact. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2011

IOCC August Contributor David Lee Byrd

lDavid is an author of two books; his first, “Living a Spiritual Life” (LSL) chronicles his spiritual journey during the 17 years of his own recovery process. It offers insights on finding and building a spiritual way of life that avoids religious dogma and legalism.

LSL takes you on a journey of self discovery where you will find the beauty and joy you deserve in this life. The path lies within you; you are filled with a power packed potential that is just waiting to be realized.

His second book "Life Seeds" is a collection of Poetry that encompasses life’s many ups and down, its joys and sorrows. All of the poems are based on real life experiences that resonate with honesty, humor, insight, and wisdom.

As a licensed minister, certified drug and alcohol counselor, single parent, and student at Argosy University where he is working on a Masters degree in the behavioral sciences David’s life is incredibly rich and profoundly diverse.

He lives by the principles that he teaches. A promise that he made many years ago was, “to never, ever teach or encourage another person to do what he himself had not first tried, and found to be successful.”

http://segue101.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

IOCC April Contributor Kevin Griffin

Improve Our Conscious Contact

Read Kevin's IOCC post Control Yourself

About Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin has been practicing meditation since 1978, and doing Buddhist Vipassana practice since 1980. He has studied with the leading Western Vipassana teachers, including Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Ruth Denison, Christopher Titmuss, Ajahn Amaro, James Baraz, Wes Nisker, and many others. He has been teaching meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1996.

Kevin has been actively working with the Twelve Steps since 1985, maintaining continuous sobriety from alcohol and drugs during that time.

What Kevin is up to in May 2011...


  • Friday, May 6, Meditation and talk, Insight Meditation Center of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA sitting group.



  • Saturday, May 7, Daylong retreat. Insight Meditation Center of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA sitting group.



  • Sunday-Friday, May 9-13, Dharma and recovery retreat, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.



  • Friday, May 13, 7:30-9:30pm, Dharma and Recovery class, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA. (substitute teacher)



  • Friday, May 13, Meditation and talk, New York Insight, 28 W. 27th St, 10fl, New York, NY. 212-213-4802. nyinsight@earthlink.net



  • Saturday, May 14, Daylong retreat: "The Brahma Viharas in Recovery,", New York Insight, 28 W. 27th St, 10fl, New York, NY. 212-213-4802. nyinsight@earthlink.net



  • Sunday, May 15, Daylong retreat, Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, 331 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.



  • Friday-Sunday May 20-22 Buddhist Recovery Network Conference, Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA.


  • http://www.kevingriffin.net
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Griffin/142878839070231

    Saturday, February 12, 2011

    IOCC February Contributor

    Rabbi Shais Taub
    Author of God of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction and
    Chasidic Thought

    "Shais Taub is a popular scholar and teacher of Jewish mysticism whose contributions to Jewish recovery include authoring the bestselling book, G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction which was lauded by Jewish recovery pioneer, Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski.

    National Public Radio dubbed Rabbi Taub "an expert in Jewish mysticism and the Twelve Steps" for his work with the Jewish recovery community in Milwaukee where he lived for six years. He currently directs Conscious Contact, a program providing meetings for Jewish prayer, meditation and study at the Aleph Institute NE in Pittsburgh where he now lives with his wife and children.

    He was recently selected to deliver the keynote address "G-d and Recovery" at the First Annual Conference on the Evolution of Addiction Treatment in Los Angeles, CA." from CHABAD.ORG



    CLICK to view his contributions to the IOCC Blog this month!

    Saturday, July 24, 2010

    June/July IOCC Writers

    This summer has given us the oportunity to hear from Rhonda O. and Jody K. Come and read what these two amazing sober women have to share about prayer in their lives. Then take the IOCC Challenge and write out what you have learned from each of these women. We always can learn more and reinforce what we already know from others experience, strength and hope.

    Rhonda O. I Came ~ I Came To ~ I Came To Believe

    Jody K. Constant Conscious Contact

    Jody K. When The Answer Is One We Didn't Expect