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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Meditation Session
DESCRIPTION:Athenians and visitors\, I warmly invite you to a Mindfulness Meditation Session guided by me \nWednesday\, January 28 \n19:00-20:00 (Please arrive for an on-time start\, thank you!) \nAt Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Exarcheia \nTeachings and practices to arrive in the present moment\, ease stress\, find clarity\, give self-compassion to heart~mind~body\, and set wise intentions for work and life\, together in community \nIn English\, Dana donation-based
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/2855/
LOCATION:Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations
DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to cohost this free webinar on translated literature for children and young adults. Please join us! \nExplorations in Translation for Children is a webinar series co-organized by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in World\, the organization dedicated to exploring and promoting children’s literature in translation. \nOn Thursday 11 December at 5pm UK time we will be in conversation with the leaders of the project PUBLISH: Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War on the role of translations. \nThis online webinar is free & open to all. To join via MS Teams\, please register here. \nHow do children’s books cross borders in wartime and what happens to them when they do? This joint talk traces the translational lives of war-related titles from commissioning to circulation\, and the challenges the publishers meet along the way. Birgitte Beck Pristed introduces the Aarhus University project PUBLISH: Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War\, examining how Ukrainian and Russian children’s publishers operate under wartime conditions and how the books reflect child readers’ experiences of war and dislocation. In this talk\, she focuses on the publishers’ hurdles of bringing books across borders. Drawing on new interviews with Ukrainian publishers\, Nadia Pavlyk examines how international support and solidarity are negotiated in practice\, and how these transnational networks shape the capacity to produce\, translate\, and present war-themed children’s literature under fire. Finally\, Ekaterina Shatalova shows how\, in Russia’s “hybrid” censorship environment\, translated children’s books become politically charged objects: the same titles can function as cultural solidarity while being securitised as “threats.” Together\, the speakers argue that translation is double-edged – both a vehicle of ethical resistance and a liability within contested information regimes. \nEkaterina Shatalova is a PhD fellow at Aarhus University\, working on the project “PUBLISH: Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War.” Before turning to conflict and children’s books\, she earned a Master’s degree in Victorian literature at Oxford University (2018)\, followed by Erasmus Mundus International degree in Children’s Literature\, Media and Culture (2022). She is also a prolific translator of children’s books and TV shows. When not translating\, she scouts and reviews books for international publishers and book organisations (IBBY\, Children’s Books Ireland). Her recent article “Image of Migrants and Refugees in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature: A Case Study of Alexey Oleynikov’s Works” (2024) was published in Filoteknos. \nNadiia Pavlyk is a Doctor of Science (Social Pedagogy)\, a professor at the Department of Social Technologies (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University\, Ukraine) and a researcher of the MSCA4Ukraine project DaR:ua “Dialogues and Reading: Shared Reading for Ukrainian Young People” (Department of Global Studies\, Aarhus University\, Denmark). Her research focuses on non-formal education for excluded groups\, youth work and youth policy based on Council of Europe standards and approaches\, shared reading and children’s books in the Russia-Ukraine war. \nBirgitte Beck Pristed is Associate Professor in Russian Studies at the Department of Global Studies\, Aarhus University\, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. from the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz\, Germany\, awarded with distinction 2014. She is author of an illustrated monograph on post-Soviet Russian book design and print culture The New Russian Book. A Graphic Cultural History (New Directions in Book History\, Palgrave\, 2017). Her main research areas are print and media history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras with a second strand in children’s books. Her current research project focuses on children’s book publishing in the Russia-Ukraine war. https://projects.au.dk/publish
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/childrens-books-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-the-role-of-translations/
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SUMMARY:Weekly Mindfulness Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Athenians and visitors\, I warmly invite you to Weekly Mindfulness Sessions guided by me \nEvery Wednesday from October 1 to November 26 \n18:00-19:00 (Please note new earlier time for November!) \nAt Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Exarcheia \nPractices to center ourselves in the present moment\, ease stress\,  give self-compassion to heart~mind~body\, and set wise intentions for work and life \nIn English\, Dana donation-based
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/weekly-mindfulness-sessions/
LOCATION:Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
DESCRIPTION:I am delighted to cohost this free webinar on translated literature for children and young adults. Please join us! \nExplorations in Translation for Children is a webinar series co-organized by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in World\, the organization dedicated to exploring and promoting children’s literature in translation. \nThis online webinar is free & open to all. To join via MS Teams\, please register here. \n\nOn Thursday 23 October at 5pm UK time we will be in conversation with the leaders of the project Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101\, sponsored by The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. \n\n\nThe impact of global events is unmistakably apparent in our daily lives\, yet many Americans\, especially children and teenagers\, know little of world events and cultures. Moreover\, those best positioned to spark their learning — particularly librarians\, who are charged with bringing the knowledge of the world even to their littlest patrons — are ill-equipped to help them. Shockingly\, only a handful of accredited U.S. library schools even offer courses in international youth literature. \nThe Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 website is intended to serve as a toolkit for librarians\, but also for others who wish to learn more about youth literature — especially translations — from other countries. A global collection helps librarians serve communities with families from different countries and cultures\, helps children develop greater international understanding\, opens avenues for curiosity\, and creates opportunities for learning from counterparts abroad. \nUsed well\, these books can open windows\, unlock doors\, and serve as mirrors. To this end we provide curated booklists created by librarians\, subject matter experts\, and community contributors in the Starter Kit and aggregate relevant web-based materials in the resource-rich Hub. Together\, they are a one-stop shop for the global youth literature novice\, and the project leaders hope that even those already familiar with this literature will discover something new. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Annette Y. Goldsmith is the librarian at the Levy Library\, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles. She is the founding editor of the online children’s literature journal\, The Looking Glass. An international youth literature specialist\, she teaches online graduate classes in children’s and young adult literature and librarianship\, most recently for the Kent State University Information School. \nDr. Marc Aronson is Associate Professor of Practice\, Library and Information Science\, at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He has worked in the field of literature for younger readers for more than thirty years as an author\, editor\, speaker\, publisher\, and critic. He is the only person to have been a winner or finalist for both of the American Library Association’s prizes for excellence in youth nonfiction as both an author and as an editor.\n\nDavid Jacobson is a journalist\, author and Japanese translator. His award-winning picture book biography\, Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko\, introduced the life and work of a beloved Japanese children’s poet to English-language readers. He is currently writing a biography of Jella Lepman\, founder of the International Youth Library and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/building-a-global-youth-literature-collection-101/
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SUMMARY:Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:I warmly invite you\nto a mindfulness series for June \nLast session: \nEquanimity \nWednesday 25 June\n18:00-19:00 \nPlease kindly arrive at 17:45 for an on-time start\nKallidromiou 79\, Exarcheia \nEquanimity\, upekkha\, is a calm steadiness of heart~mind\namid a life and a world that is constantly changing.\nEquanimity supports our compassion so we have the strength\nto be with suffering as well as joy. \nIn English\nDana donation-based
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/2714/
LOCATION:Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Mudita ~ Joy
DESCRIPTION:I warmly invite you\nto a mindfulness series for June \nNext session: \nMudita ~ Joy \nWednesday 11 June\n18:00-19:00\nPlease kindly arrive at 17:45 for an on-time start\nKallidromiou 79\, Exarcheia \nMudita means joy and sympathetic joy:\njoy in the good fortune of others.\nIt is an enriching heart~mind quality that can help us\nexperience joy even when times are difficult.\nMudita also calms the comparing mind and deepens\nour connection to others. \nIn English\nDana donation-based
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LOCATION:Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Metta practice
DESCRIPTION:I warmly invite you to\na mindfulness series in June \nStarting with:\nMetta practice \nWednesday 04 June\n18:00-19:00\nPlease kindly arrive at 17:45 for an on-time start\nKallidromiou 79\, Exarcheia\, Athens \nMetta is a Pali word that means loving-kindness.\nIt is a deeply enriching heart quality that we can practice with ourselves\nand with others: those who we love; those who we don’t know;\nand those with whom we are experiencing difficulty or conflict \nIn English\nDana donation-based
URL:https://equallanguage.com/event/metta-practice/
LOCATION:Alma Community Therapies\, Kallidromiou 79\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:March mindfulness offering ~ Befriending the wild mind\, and ourselves
DESCRIPTION:For my March offering\, I will invite us to explore how mindfulness teachings and practices can help us to befriend our often busy minds\, which may be causing us as much suffering as illumination. I will share the basic neuroscience of mindfulness and practices for allowing and befriending. Are there ways in which you are a friend to yourself? Are there ways where you find it hard? Can we cultivate unconditional ~ or unstoppable ~ friendliness toward ourselves in the same way we do for beloved others? With gentle\, warm friendliness\, we’ll discover… There will be sitting meditation\, teaching\, walking meditation\, journaling\, and sharing (optional). This class is suitable for all levels of experience\, including for those newer to meditation. I describe some elements of this offering in a video on my Instagram here. \nTwo-hour session on Zoom\nDate: Saturday\, March 23\nTime: 7-9:00am PST / 9-11am CT / 10am-12pm EST / 3-5pm GMT / 4-6pm CET / 6-8pm EET\nPrice: $45; please register and pay at the Ticket link below \nThe mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox\, joys and sorrows\, successes and failures. We can’t escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand—and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience\, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds\, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us… In meditation\, you develop this nurturing quality of loyalty and steadfastness and perseverance toward yourself. And as we learn to do this in meditation\, we become more able to persevere through all kinds of situations outside of our meditation\, or what we call postmeditation. ~ Pema Chödrön \nAn especially potent form of practice for these times is metta. Metta is a Pali word that has been translated as loving-kindness\, universal goodwill\, or loving-friendliness. My favorite translation is “unstoppable friendliness.”    ~ Melvin Escobar \nWe often meet feelings with strategies of escape\, avoidance\, suppression\, indulgence\, or self-judgment. The practice of befriending feelings provides us with another option. We gradually learn not only to tolerate what arises\, but to welcome it and take it into our personal path. ~ Willa Blythe Baker \nAppreciating your basic\, underlying sense of goodness is the birth of unconditional friendliness toward yourself… Meditation cultivates unconditional friendliness through teaching you how to just be—without doing anything\, without holding onto anything\, and without trying to think good thoughts\, get rid of bad thoughts\, or achieve a pure state of mind. This is a radical practice… Allowing yourself the space to be as you are—letting whatever arises arise\, without fixation on it\, and coming back to simple presence—this is perhaps the most loving and compassionate way you can treat yourself. It helps you make friends with the whole range of your experience… Fortunately\, unconditional friendliness does not mean having to like what is going on. Instead\, it means allowing whatever is there to be there as it is\, and inviting it to reveal itself more fully. In trying to help clients develop unconditional friendliness toward a difficult feeling\, I often say\, “You don’t have to like it. You can just let it be there\, and make a place for your dislike of it as well.” ~ John Welwood
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