December 12 2023
19.30 - 21.30 hours

There are

when death comes closer

Irene Kaigetsu Baker

'What does someone in dispair need? Another human being'
- Martin Buber –

'Being there, just as a human being'
For someone in the last phase of life.

Sooner or later, almost everyone in this life will have to deal with a loved one who will die. What can you do for him or her? What can you do or perhaps not do better? Is 'Being There' enough and how do you do that? And how do you deal with what this situation brings up for you?

In this online workshop we explore these questions together.

The workshop fits in well with the live course 'Living with Dying', which Irène Bakker has been with for several years 30NOW and will start on February 2024, 1.

'Being There' is offered as an online workshop. We use Zoom Meetings, so all participants in addition to Irène are visible and can switch on their microphone. The workshop will not be recorded.

Dates: December 12, 2023

Time: 19.30 to 21.30

Irene Kaigetsu Baker

Irene Bakker

Irène Kaigetsu Bakker (1945) is a Zen teacher; became a Buddhist in 1989 and has been a Zen practitioner since 1995.monk. Since meeting Roshi Joan Halifax during a Zen Peacemaker retreat in Auschwitz in 1996, Irène has worked closely with her, both in the field of end-of-life care and Zen training at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe (NM). ...

In 2012, Irène received dharma transmission from Joan Halifax, becoming a fully authorized Zen priest and Zen teacher (Sensei) in the White Plum Asangha lineage. She received the name 'Kaigetsu' (Ocean Moon) in addition to the dharma name 'Kyojo' (Jewel Mirror Samadhi) which she received in 1989 from Genpo Merzel. She practiced Zen from 1986 – 2011 under the guidance of the American Zen master Genpo Merzel, of which six years full-time at the Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City (USA).

Irène Bakker has been leading Zen Spirit since 2004, with Zen groups in Arnhem, Groningen, Rosmalen and Geldermalsen. In addition to silent retreats, she regularly provides training and workshops on dealing with dying, including for people who work in healthcare. As a system therapist, she worked for seven years with people with cancer in the psycho-oncology center 'Het Behouden Huys' in Haren (Gr) and also had her own therapeutic practice. Irène Bakker is a consultant in dying care for the Buddhist Union of the Netherlands (BUN) and 'Spirit holder' for the Zen Peacemakers Low Countries.
Irène is mother of two sons and a daughter and proud 'Omi' of nine grandchildren.

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