Events
From monthly gatherings to special events, here you’ll find easy ways to join our community and taste our training.
Zen Leadership Off the Cushion - ZLOTC
Join us for ZLOTC monthly
Calling all Alumni! You asked for more ways to train together and to enjoy, energize and grow our community. Then you stepped up and made it happen.
These 90-minute online gatherings are led and taught by seasoned IZL community members and instructors. They follow a rhythm we’ve come to love:
Welcome, tea, and brief Zazen (sitting meditation)
Introductions and check in
A teaching on an IZL topic, with innovations, embodiment practices and seed questions for breakout discussions likely
Partner or small group discussions
“Pass the rock,” circle practice or group discussion
Coming attractions and close
The series is offered on a donation basis and meets on the 3rd Wednesday (in even months) or Sunday (in odd months) at 9 am - 10:30 am CT (NEW TIME).
New to us? Contact us and we’ll match you with a host for your first session who can introduce you to the group and answer any questions you have about the flow of activities.
Want a taste? View a ZLOTC session with Rebecca Ryan Roshi on Using Wholeheartedness to Unlock Energy and Creativity.
Up Next at ZLOTC
Ma. Clara Rowena "Weng" Suarez is a Certified HeartMath Trainer for The Resilience Advantage and Activating the Heart of Teams. She loves integrating inner technologies that facilitate purposeful action in the world, and that is why she is on the path of becoming a Zen Leader Instructor.
Flip 1 - From Coping To Transforming - Through The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence
In this ZLOTC, we will explore how heart-brain coherence allows us access to intuitive intelligence that can effectively guide us when navigating stressful or difficult situations. We will learn a key HeartMath technique and explore how the hara supports the activation of the heart.
9 am - 10:30 am CT
March 19, 2025
Event Recordings
We need deep resilience that is unshakeable–grounded in love, connection, and our universal nature.
We held this summit in 2024 with 20 expert guides to offer insights, practices and communities to deepen your resilience.
Building the resonance and muscle to address the critical work of our time with heartfelt connectedness
Here’s a taste of our 2023 summit introducing the cycle of “perma leadership” needed to build a regenerative mindset and bring healing to the world.
We brought together more than 50 experts, including Katharine Wilkinson, Bayo Akomolafe, Christiana Figueres, Joan Halifax, Ilarion Merculieff, John Liu, Kosha Joubert, Andres Roberts, Fleet Maull, Jonathon Patz and many more to help people explore the climate crisis, their place in the work, and practices to support them.
From Partner Events
from Rewiring Your Brain Summit with the Heart Mind Institute, 2023
Rewiring the Brain, Freeing the Mind
A rich conversation between Fleet Maull, PhD, co-host of the Rewiring Your Brain Summit, and Ginny Whitelaw Roshi. In it, you’ll learn about resonance, co-regulation, FEBI and much more!
Return to the Mother World: Ancient Feminine Wisdom in Times of Transition, 2023
Return to Your Whole Self
Join the conversation with Emmi Mutale and Ginny Whitelaw as they explore the local vs whole self, death, and how to live in this time of transition.