Living Fearlessly: Facing the Inevitable
An Online Offering
with Barbara Doshin Ende and Peggy Yoshin Peloquin
Tuesdays, Oct 5th, 2021 through Nov 30th, 2021 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm ET
We are living in a time of uncertainty. We share a world that once seemed unimaginable. Many of the usual patterns and habits that brought us comfort have been stripped away. And we have changed and adjusted. We are living the starkly disconcerting reality of impermanence on a daily basis. This kind of upheaval can lead to a radical shift in one's perspective of what matters most.
The Buddha taught that old age, illness and death are inescapable. Living Fearlessly is a nine-week workshop that investigates how we can prepare for the end of life while living life fully. Drawing on the expertise of Barbara Doshin Ende and Peggy Yoshin Peloquin, you will explore the inescapable through poetry, journaling, and experiential exercises. You will consider practical tools such as advance directives and healthcare proxy and will spend time planning your own memorial and writing your obituary. Join us on this journey of discovery.
Financial Support: New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care endeavors to make our programs accessible. If the cost of this program is prohibitive, please choose the scholarship tier that would make it possible for you to attend. Please note that there are a limited number of scholarship seats available.
About the Facilitators:
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 Barbara Doshin Ende As Co-Director of Contemplative Care and Staff Chaplain, Doshin facilitates Contemplative Resilience, is mentor to Chaplaincy Interns and Volunteers, oversees community support programs and provides individual spiritual support and grief counseling. She has a Masters in Psychology and a Masters in Pastoral Care and Counseling and completed 5 units of Clinical Pastoral Education with NYZC. Doshin coordinated services in adult group homes for the New York State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities for thirty-three years and was a member of both the Ethics Committee and Incident Review Committee. During that time she also consulted as a Behavioral Specialist providing direct counseling to people with developmental disabilities and psychiatric illness living in the community. Doshin continues working in the field, providing guardianship advocacy to individuals with disabilities living in nursing facilities and community care homes. Doshin is a formal Zen student and grounds her work in her practice and work with her teacher, Chodo Campbell.
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 Peggy Yoshin Peloquin came to NYZC inspired by the Contemplative Care component in the first Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) program. She has worked as a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, and curator, reflecting her life-long involvement in embodiment and somatic practice. She received a BPH from Thomas Jefferson College, is a 500 RYT, and UZIT, a Level II Reiki practitioner, a Bessie award winner, taught at the Dean Ornish Heart Disease reversal program and trained as a SEED leader. She facilitates white caucus groups at (WPC) White Privilege conference from 2014 to present. She is an Formal Zen Student of Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Since completing the Foundations for Contemplative Care Program in 2016, she has studied Clinical Pastoral Education and completed 3 ½ units of CPE at NYZC, while providing contemplative chaplain care at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Isabella Geriatric Home and as a mentor for the Foundations program since 2019. She teaches dance, yoga, mindfulness, and Life-skills from 1996-present at (LREI) Little Red School House, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and family. Yoshin has dedicated her life to service, whether at the bedside or in the classroom.
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