"Mindfulness with Male Youth: Growing Up Mindfully in the Age of Obama."

Thursday, March 5th

"Mindfulness with Male Youth: Growing Up Mindfully in the Age of Obama."
5pm at La Casa (715 E 7th St.)

Join us for a workshop involving strategies to help deal with stresses that
young men experience, including: the pressure to uphold aspects of
conventional masculinity (e.g., stoicism, toughness, competitiveness), as
well as machismo, reactivity, and trauma. This workshop will focus on
meditative practice, the higher development of consciousness,
self-awareness, openness to others, and higher masculine identity
development.

Bio: David Forbes, Ph.D. teaches School Counseling and is
coordinator of the School Counseling program at Brooklyn College/CUNY in New
York. He is the author of Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male
Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang, 2004).