Mission Dharma Visiting Teachers
Yvonne Gingsberg has led the Mission Dharma sitting group on many occasions over the last eleven years. She began practicing Vipassana meditation in 1970 with V. R. Dhiravamsa. Yvonne organized the Vipassana Fellowship East in 1972 and has taught many weekend and three-month retreats.
Yvonne taught undergraduate psychology at Yale University and has worked as a therapist for 35 years in the San Francisco/Marin County area. She provides training and consulting in the Tavistock Group Relations model and has provided corporate/executive coaching to various companies including Google's "Search Inside Yourself" program. Yvonne is also the producer/director of a documentary distributed by PBS entitled, "Landmines of the Heart" which is a meditation on reconciliation through the story of Cambodia and Maha Ghosananda.
Contact information ~ 415.272.6074 ~ yvonne_ginsberg {at} comcast.net
Yvonne taught undergraduate psychology at Yale University and has worked as a therapist for 35 years in the San Francisco/Marin County area. She provides training and consulting in the Tavistock Group Relations model and has provided corporate/executive coaching to various companies including Google's "Search Inside Yourself" program. Yvonne is also the producer/director of a documentary distributed by PBS entitled, "Landmines of the Heart" which is a meditation on reconciliation through the story of Cambodia and Maha Ghosananda.
Contact information ~ 415.272.6074 ~ yvonne_ginsberg {at} comcast.net
Tempel Smith began practicing intensive Insight and Metta retreats in 1989 under the guidance of Michele McDonald, Steve Armstrong and Joseph Goldstein. He spent a year as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. He is the founder of BASE House, a collective of Buddhist activists and service providers in San Francisco. Tempel has been teaching since 1997 and leads pilgrimages to Thailand, Burma, and India. He recently completed a four-year teacher training program run by Jack Kornfield at SRMC and IMS in Massachusetts.
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