Dr. John Peacock, Bernat Font & Gerit Stöcklmair
Booking via link below. A €300 deposit is required and the completion of application form. Balance to be paid by 1st June 2023. Application Forms: For an application form please email info@mindfulness.ie
Dr John Peacock has been an academic and a Buddhist practitioner for nearly fifty years. Trained in India in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition, he subsequently spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravada. He lectured in Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol, he was Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and teacher on the Master of Studies programme in MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) at Oxford University until recently.
John has been teaching meditation internationally for more than thirty years and is a Gaia House guiding teacher. He is a co-founder of The Bodhi College, which is dedicated to the study and practice of the early teachings of the Buddha. John has been supporting the development of mindfulness and mindfulness teaching in Ireland for the past 9 years, and has co-facilitated the Mindfulness Centre's annual 7-day retreats here in August 2015, August 2017, online in 2021, and in person again in August 2022. We are delighted to welcome him back in 2023.
Bernat Font encountered the Dharma in his early teens and has practiced and taught mindfulness and the Dharma in his native Spain, throughout Europe, in North America and in Asia. A graduate from the Gaia House Community Dharma Leadership programme, he recently graduated from Dharma Teacher Training at the Bodhi College, with Stephen Batchelor as his primary mentor. He holds an MA in Buddhist Studies and is currently engaged in studying for his Ph.D. in Buddhist Psychology. Bernat assisted Christina Feldman on our annual retreat in Castletown in August 2017 and his teaching was greatly appreciated by all those who were there. It is a pleasure to welcome him back to Ireland again.
Christina Feldman says of Bernat: "Bernat Font is a recent graduate of the Bodhi College teacher training programme as well as being a Buddhist scholar. He has a wealth of experience in insight meditation and I recommend him as a skilled and compassionate teacher."
Martine Batchelor says of Bernat: “Bernat is a dharma jewel. I enjoy teaching with him as he has a wealth of knowledge about the suttas. He is also a serious meditator and brings a creative artistic flavour to his teachings which are very relevant to practice in daily life and enlivening.”
Gerit Stocklmair is a microbiologist,psychotherapist and Body Movement Therapist, originally from Austria.
Curiosity about the inner and outer world has put her on many journeys, and she has lived in England, Scotland and South Korea, before settling in Denmark, where she now lives. She has been practicing meditation since 1994 and has been on extended retreats since 1998, mainly Vipassana, but also within the Zen and Triratna traditions.
She graduated from the Bodhi College Teacher Training in 2022 and has an interest in personal development through body-mind-soul integration, which means you might also find her dancing on occasion. Gerit is co-founder of Copenhagen Insight Meditation.
Akincano says of Gerit:
"I’ve enjoyed teaching retreats with Gerit on both sides of the Atlantic and appreciate her skills, her heartfulness and the depth of her personal contemplative experience. As a long-term practitioner of meditation and recent graduate of Bodhi College’s Dharma Teacher programme she already brought to this the wealth of her therapeutic competence and the clarity and rigour of her academic background. Gerit has much to share as a teacher and is an embodied, lively and warmhearted presence."