Seijaku Roshi

Author, Speaker, Zen Master

 

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Conferences and Lectures

Are you ready to bring clarity to your business or profession?

Are you ready for a new era of possibilities focused on positive changes in the way we think about business - changes that will inspire excellence throughout your organization?

The seminars listed below are typically delivered over a 2 - 3 day period however, depending upon the needs of the organization our team will map out a plan, working directly with the organization to custom design the event.

Each program is personalized with examples and enhancements best suited for your participants according to the needs of your organization.

While spirituality, meditation, and mindfulness practices are typically identified with religious traditions, these ancient and powerful disciplines of Zen and Buddhism are presented in accessible and practical day-to-day realities of modern living and the workplace of the 21st Century.  Distinctive lectures can be shaped to fit the unique needs of an organization, covering such topics as:

Seijaku Roshi's public seminars and conferences focus on helping participant’s reflect on their personal experience at work and at home, offering options for re-defining all relationships with livelihood, skillfulness, and integrity.

Seijaku Roshi and associates are also available to speak at business meetings, sales conferences, professional conventions, and organizational gatherings. 

To learn more Email * or call 609.268.9151

Arrange to have Seijaku Roshi speak at your organizations next gathering!

Organizations that know why...

Johnson & Johnson, The Dieticians Association of SJ,
Samaritan Hospice, Philadelphia Fire Department

Students from Rutgers University, Rowan University

Unitarian Universalist Churches 

and more.

To Change the Way you do Business, You'll have to Change the Way You Think about Business...

Research has shown that stress and stress related illnesses cost companies $300 billion a year in increased absenteeism, tardiness, and the loss of talented workers. The proven results gained by the use of
Zen meditation and Mindfulness practices in the workplace go beyond stress reduction informing every facet of daily work including
decision making, strategic planning,
communication, sales and customer service.

• Meditation - Eliminate the causes of stress and employee turnover.

• Improve Customer Service - being genuinely available
  to the client or patient.

• Mindfulness Practices and the Sale - Hearing the Customers Real Needs and Producing Them.

• Creating Sustainable and Viable Relationships in the workplace - Learn Powerful Communication and
  Inter-Personal Skills that create harmony and teamwork.

While spirituality, meditation, and mindfulness practices are typically identified with religious traditions, these ancient and powerful disciplines of Zen and Buddhism are presented in accessible and practical day-to-day realities of modern living and the workplace of the 21st Century.
Distinctive lectures can be shaped to fit the unique needs of any organization.

Falling Awake at Work and In Your Life – challenges us to examine the way we approach the workplace and our personal relationships, and how learning to be fully present to our lives rather than always chasing after them or running from them, can bring an intelligent and vital balance to this relentless pace to succeed, and in turn cultivate excellence, respect and well-being, both in the workplace and at home.

Falling Awake at Work and In Your Life is a program designed specifically for leaders and individuals who wish to re-discover the balance of confidently pursuing work's objectives with integrity, while maintaining sanity at home and in your personal relationships.

Drawing on 2500 year old mind training principles and mindfulness-awareness practices, this program offers an accessible, straightforward avenue for re-discovering courage and well-being, self-confidence and success on the job, and compassion and love at home and in one's personal relationships.

• Discover Clarity and Balance in the Midst of
  Work’s Chaos.

• Eliminate the causes of stress and stress related illnesses in the workplace.

• Understand how the energy of "being" versus "doing" impacts our experience and productivity at work.

• Learn how to train like an athlete in order to run the race with all victorious mastery in the workplace.

Depending upon the needs of the organization, this program can be delivered half day, full day, or two day sessions.

Physician Heal Thyself – The Compassionate Physicians Course

This two-day powerful seminar is designed for medical doctors, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists.

Mindfulness meditation and practice is a simple formula—awareness of present experience with acceptance and responsibility—that has been used for over 2500 years to alleviate suffering. It is based on the ancient discovery that our efforts to avoid difficulty or stress and to cling to pleasure and our unfulfilled expectations causes the stress to compound. In contrast, openly embracing the circumstance and situation as it shows up, with all its difficulties, inconvenience, and discomfort, leads to happiness and a greater sense of capability and connection to others.

Each element of mindfulness meditation and practice—precise awareness, present-centeredness, radical acceptance of the moment of experience, and skilful response—can give the physician additional traction in the office, the hospital, and the OR. 

Mindfulness draws on our inherent and natural ability to observe and know our own minds. It is a positive kind of psychology in which acceptance and skillfulness precedes change.

This course, will offer an intensive introduction to the application of mindfulness practice, theory, and meditation to the practicing physician or mental health professional.

Seijaku Roshi and associates will combine Zen-Buddhist teachings, and Eastern Energy Schools of healing teachings, with periods of sitting and walking meditation, didactics, small group work, and question and answer periods.

Caring for someone with a chronic or life-limiting illness is very demanding.  It stresses the body physically and also emotionally, socially, and spiritually.  Many emotions are associated with caring for the ill such as sadness, anger, or feelings of being isolated and alone.  All of these stressors can leave you feeling depleted and drained. When your caring center is empty, you have nothing to give, making it very hard to be an effective physician.

Meditation can have several benefits such as relaxation and stress reduction.  Reducing your stress level will allow you to be more effective. Meditation can also help with increased alertness and mental acuity; both are important when faced with the multiple tasks of being a healer.

This course will provide an opportunity to explore the depths of our inner wisdom and compassion. Most importantly, this will be a time to look at how we can take care of ourselves while taking care of others.

Depending upon the needs of the organization, this program can be delivered in one Weekend (Friday evening to Sunday) or
two - 12 hour - sessions.

The Compassionate Caregiver Retreat

This two-day powerful seminar is designed for Caregivers; nurses, psychotherapist, social workers, chaplains, and lay-caregivers.

In this seminar, we will take a deep look at how to integrate Zen principals for daily living, and practice, with care giving whether at home or in the work place. 

Seijaku Roshi and associates will combine Zen-Buddhist teachings, and Eastern Energy Schools of healing teachings, with periods of sitting and walking meditation, didactics, small group work, and question and answer periods.

Care giving for someone with a chronic or life-limiting illness is very demanding.  It stresses the body physically and also emotionally, socially, and spiritually.  Many emotions are associated with caring for the ill such as sadness, anger, or feelings of being isolated and alone.  All of these stressors can leave you feeling depleted and drained. When your caring center is empty, you have nothing to give, making it very hard to be an effective caregiver.

Meditation can have several benefits such as relaxation and stress reduction.  Reducing your stress level will allow you to be more effective. Meditation can also help with increased alertness and mental acuity; both are important when faced with the multiple tasks of being a caregiver.

This retreat will provide an opportunity to explore the depths of our inner wisdom and compassion. Most importantly, this will be a time to look at how we can take care of ourselves while taking care of others.

Depending upon the needs of the organization, this program can be delivered in one Weekend (Friday evening to Sunday) or
two - 12 hour - sessions

The Noble Counselor – Mindfulness and The Law

"In this age of unprecedented distraction and information
density, every professional needs tools to clear the mind,
calm the body and reveal what matters most.  It is both a
practical and personal necessity."

- Steven Keeva
  American Bar Association Journal

The Noble Counselor Seminar explores ways of helping lawyers reconnect with their deepest values and intentions, through Zen-meditation and other spiritual practices, providing a framework for considering ways in which contemplative awareness can enhance and enrich ones professional and personal life, and bring them more into balance, addressing questions and ideas from a contemplative perspective:  the motivation behind winning and not losing, the role of compassion in adversarial situations, integrity and “right speech,” contemplative methods of inquiry, action and non-action, adversarial and communication.

Integrating meditation and the principals of Zen Buddhism into the study and practice of law and dispute resolution, participants who have no or little meditation experience, as well as experienced Meditators will certainly benefit from participating in this powerful two-day event.
 

Depending upon the needs of the organization, this program can be delivered in one Weekend (Friday evening to Sunday) or
two - 12 hour - sessions.