Islands of Sanity: online community in a chaotic world

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  • Nov 02

    Monday Nov 2, 2026 - Monday Nov 2, 2026

     (Start time Mon 18:00 GMT - End time Mon 20:00 GMT)
    Online
    Martine Batchelor, Christina Feldman, Christoph Köck, Akincano Weber
    • £25.00 excl.
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Description

Bodhi College would like to invite you to an online sangha event we have created for our community. To come together and be in presence and connection with each other. 

A time of talks from our teachers, joint practice and an opportunity for us all to reflect.

Theme

When we gather in small groups to practice and reflect on the teaching, there is a tangible sense of the ways in which shared values and aspirations are deepened and supported. Living in a chaotic world so riven with conflict and ill will, it is not always easy to sustain a commitment to kindness, compassion and clarity – the very qualities the world is in so much need of. The qualities that indeed benefit our own well being too. 

In our online sessions we are, together, creating islands of sanity where respect, integrity, learning and listening are core values.  In this sangha evening we will discuss the pivotal importance of these meetings and how they can be a quiet yet significant resource and accompaniment along your path.

Event Details

Event info:

This event is offered free of charge for Friends of Bodhi College. If you would like to become a friend you can find more information and register here. If you are a Friend already there is no need to do anything. The link will be posted on the dedicated Friends page and you will receive an invitation with a link to the event shortly before it takes place.

Cost

  • If you are unable to afford our course rate, please contact us here. We will make sure that no one is turned away because of lack of funds

Teachers

MARTINE BATCHELOR author of Meditation for Life, The Path of Compassion, Women in Korean Zen and Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits. Her latest works are the The Spirit of the Buddha, What is this? and The Definition, Practice and Psychology of Vedana.  She is a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council.  She teaches meditation retreats worldwide and lives in France. Recently she has been involved with the Silver Sante Study, teaching meditation, mindfulness and compassion to seniors in France to see if this could prevent ageing decline.

CHRISTINA FELDMAN is a co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachussetts. The author of a number of books, she has been teaching insight meditation retreats internationally since 1976. She is one of the teaching faculty of the CPP programme, dedicated to the study and application of the early teachings of the Buddha and is engaged in teaching the Buddhist psychological foundations of mindfulness to those training to teach mindfulness-based applications in England, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her most recent book Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, written with Willem Kuyken, was published in the summer of 2019. 

CHRISTOPH KÖCK was born in Vienna, Austria, and spent 17 years of his life as a Buddhist monk in the Theravadin tradition.He lived mainly in monasteries connected with Ajahn Chah in Thailand and the West. Currently he lives in Vienna, working as a psychotherapist in a private practice. He teaches Buddhism and meditation internationally, and is trained to teach MBSR and MBCT. 

AKINCANO M. WEBER is a European Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist (MA). A former monk, he has lived and practised for 20 years in European and Thai Forest monasteries. His particular interests are early Buddhist texts, stillness and contemplative psychology. He is the guiding teacher of Atammaya Cologne, Germany, part of the CPP programme and of several Mindfulness teacher training courses, and teaches meditation and Buddhist Psychology in secular and traditional contexts in Europe and overseas.