What is a Contemplative Reading Circle?
We will read selected excerpts from the book together. Pause and reflect in silence how it lands in our body, mind and heart. From there we share our reflections, listening deeply to the shared collective experience and our own.
About the Circle
Drawing on Miriam Greenspan’s Healing Through the Dark Emotions, the circle offers a space to meet these feelings as meaningful messengers, carrying intelligence and life energy.
The themes and Mariam Greenspan’s reflections deeply resonate with our courses and what we learn in the Mindfulness Based Counseling: Listening with Embodied Presence course and in Presence Oriented Psychotherapy.
Who is it for?
This circle is for anyone curious to explore emotions with presence and care—no prior experience is needed. You are welcome just as you are. You don’t have to read the book or have the book in advance, we will read together.
Details:
We will slowly read and explore the themes in the book over four sessions on the below dates. You may join the whole series or any individual session.
Dates : 18th Feb, 4th March, 11th March, 18th March 2026
Time: 7 PM - 8.30 PM IST
Online on Zoom
** This circle is a gift offering and any contributions are welcome and will help us sustain our work.
***Kindly note: Purchasing the book is not a requirement to join the reading circle. However, participants are encouraged to get their own copy if they so choose.
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FLOW OF THE CIRCLE
- A thoughtfully selected passage by the facilitator will be read in a shared reading space
- We will take some time to explore the thoughts and emotions that arise as we delve into the text
- Sharing and contemplative dialogue by the participants
Meet the Facilitator
Sandy Dias Andrade
Sandy is the Founder-Director at Just Being Center, internationally certified in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from the Center of Mindfulness, University of California, San Diego, USA and has over twenty five of experience in the field of mental health. She practices as a Mindfulness & Presence Oriented Psychotherapist and has trained extensively in somatic based, attachment and trauma resolution approaches and specialises in developmental trauma in adults.
Besides her training in Mindfulness Based Interventions that includes MBCT and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), she is also trained in Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP), Cognitive Therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, Trauma Resolution work through Somatic approaches, DARe and EMDR. She is also an Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed practitioner.
She is deeply interested in merging mainstream psychological processes with wisdom-based approaches, an integration that has shaped the vision and work of the Just Being Center and the professional trainings she has developed for mental health practitioners.
