Hi there, thanks for joining us and welcome. We'll be in conjunction with Center Yoga on New Year's Eve returning to our Tahir Punk's New Year's Eve event and wonderful experience over the years.

We did it of course annually up until the pandemic and it's so nice

that we have found a space that not only will allow us to do our monthly gatherings, but will also allow us to return to this sober Buddhist gathering.

There'll be meditation, a darma talk, then the intention setting ceremony time

for questions as well, time for connecting with others and so I'm hoping you'll join us and as usual

everything we keep the prices really as minimal as we can I think the whole thing will be like $20 for the two hours

and that's to pay for the use of the space.

So I hope you'll consider joining us for a sober Buddhist New Year's Eve in New York, 23rd Street.

And if you'd like to support my work, which is entirely supported by donation only,

both the Buddhist psychotherapy and the teaching, the Benmo's Darma Punk's in the

teaching Venmo is Darmapunks with an ex-nyc.

And there's a PayPal on the website,

Darmapunks NYC.com, as well as a Patreon. So that's about it. Thanks for listening and I hope if you're around you'll join us on New Year's Eve. What I'm going to be talking about tonight

is specifically how couples or partnerships

or friendships or friendships or relationships between family members can thrive, even during times of stress.

A lot of my work in Buddhist pastoral counseling is not only with individuals, but once in a while I get cajoled into meeting with couples and over the years I've developed some experience helping couples develop resilience in their relationship and And also tonight's talk will also, as usual,

be employing some of the insights

by important figures in contemporary therapeutic modalities such as Sue Johnson's emotions focus therapy,

Amago and of course, uh, Gottman's and Stan Tatkin's clinical insights.

So existential threats occur all the time not just the economic downturn of 2008 the terrorist

attacks of 9-11 the tyranny of the January 6 events and especially most recently the the pandemic

where suddenly we walk outside and everyone is masked avoiding us looking at us as a threat.

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