We are delighted to welcome Ari Kaplan to the Grateful Den to facilitate a community mindfulness meditation, where he will guide a sit from his Toronto Method Mindfulness Handbook: Six Lessons in Embodied and Compassionate Meditation. Ari is a friend of the Den, and an experienced lawyer, arbitrator, and wellness instructor.

Please join us for a free community sit at the Den to start the year with an invitation to mindful, compassionate awareness.

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Ari Kaplan is a lawyer, arbitrator and mediator pursuing a PhD in law and emotion at Western University. He is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher trained by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield and author of the book Toronto Method Mindfulness Handbook: Six Lessons in Embodied and Compassionate Meditation. His course is accredited by the Law Society of Ontario for professionalism and EDI. Ari is currently teaching Canada’s first for-credit law school course on law and emotions at the University of Ottawa. Ari is also facilitating a weekend mindfulness retreat at Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre north of Toronto, from February 7-9, 2025, more information about which is here.

See also, torontomethodmindfulness.com