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Choosing to Love 2026: A Community of Practice with Tara Brach



These are shadowed times—marked by hostility, cruelty and profound delusion.  Many of us feel overwhelmed, frightened and disconnected—from our own hearts, from each other, and from the living world around us. 

Yet, even in the midst of this suffering, there remains a wellspring of presence and love within us. This innate capacity not only carries us through, it empowers us to participate in the healing our world so deeply longs for. 

This yearlong experience with Tara Brach invites you to nurture that inner refuge while walking alongside others in a vibrant and caring community. Together, we’ll explore how mindfulness and compassion can become steady companions—helping us meet life with clarity, kindness, and courage in our daily lives.

Friends—the multi crises in this world come from forgetting our belonging.  Let’s help each other remember!



How the Program Works


Each month, you’ll gather live with Tara for teachings and guided practices that bring the heart of awakening into your personal life, and our larger society. We’ll reflect on the challenges of our times and explore pathways to resilience, loving presence and wise action. View the Program Schedule

Between sessions, you’ll be supported through:

  • RAIN Partner Practice Groups – Connect in small circles to deepen understanding and apply the RAIN practice in real-life situations.
  • An Online Community – Share insights, ask questions, and walk alongside others on this journey of mindful presence and belonging.
  • Bonus Content – Enjoy additional reflections, guided meditations, and tools for sustaining your practice throughout the year.

As we move through the year together, you will:

  • Explore what it means to be a bodhisattva in our current unraveling world.
  • Cultivate mindful awareness in daily life – Learn to pause, come home to the present moment, and relate to thoughts and emotions with greater clarity and ease.
  • Deepen self-compassion and compassion for others – Explore heart practices that help transform self-judgment and open you to a more tender, connected presence with those around you.
  • Develop skillful ways of working with challenge and reactivity – Apply mindfulness and RAIN practices to moments of stress, fear, and conflict, fostering resilience and inner freedom.
  • Strengthen the capacity for wise action – Discover how mindful awareness can support courageous, compassionate responses to personal and collective suffering.
  • Experience belonging through shared practice – Engage in RAIN Partner groups and community dialogues that nurture authenticity, empathy, and mutual support.
  • Integrate mindfulness into relationships and communication – Bring a conscious, listening presence to interactions at home, at work, and in community.
  • Sustain long-term spiritual growth – Establish a steady, heart-centered practice that supports well-being, awakening, and service in the world. 



Program Cost

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Tara Brach, PhD

Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Her popular weekly podcast on emotional healing and spiritual awakening is downloaded 3 million times a month. Tara is founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. Together with Jack Kornfield, she has co-founded Cloud Sangha and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, which serves participants from 74 countries around the world. Tara’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.

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