Surfing the Waves of Change
with Lennie Kronisch
Facebook LIVE, Sunday, August 2, 2020
10:30am-12pm PDT (US Time)
It is widely acknowledged that the typical reaction to change is aversion and resistance. We quickly become attached to what is pleasant and familiar, and grasp onto it tightly. That becomes our preference and when change threatens to disrupt that habitual pattern, we dig in and resist with all our might. This creates a suffering state of anxiety and fear that can color our every moment. We will explore the inevitability of change, how to become more comfortable with it, and to grow spiritually in the process.
About the Presenter
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home. She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
10:30am-12pm PDT (US Time)
It is widely acknowledged that the typical reaction to change is aversion and resistance. We quickly become attached to what is pleasant and familiar, and grasp onto it tightly. That becomes our preference and when change threatens to disrupt that habitual pattern, we dig in and resist with all our might. This creates a suffering state of anxiety and fear that can color our every moment. We will explore the inevitability of change, how to become more comfortable with it, and to grow spiritually in the process.
About the Presenter
Lennie is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Her career has spanned birth to death; she has been an obstetrical nurse and childbirth educator, a psychiatric nurse, and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Institute in San Francisco. The last years of her career were with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, serving as a Case Manager and then as Coordinator of Volunteers. Lennie was Lama Yeshe’s nurse for the last few weeks of his life.
After her retirement in 1998, she co-founded Tara Home, a hospice house located at Land of Medicine Buddha, with Petra McWilliam (now Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi), and has devoted herself to its’ development ever since.She also led Buddhist meditations and talks for Road Scholar groups at LMB for many years.
Lennie has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1975, when she met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and was personally honored by H.H. Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion for founding Tara Home. She has three children and four grandchildren and lives in Scotts Valley.
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