Inner Disarmament Workshops

with Robert Joshin Althouse

Since 9/11, Sensei Robert Joshin Althouse has been teaching Inner Disarmament workshops in Mexico and throughout the United Sates. These hands-on workshops teach specific communication skills and give participants more confidence in working with conflict and difficult situations. Participants learn to bring more precision to their emotions by resting in an awareness free of all judgments. Through many experiential role plays, participants learn the power of empathic listening. These skills bring more functionality to organizations, churches, businesses, families and a diverse range of activist gatherings and demonstrations.

August 12 - 14: Inner Disarmament Workshop: Communication Skills for the 21st Century at Zen Community of Oak Park, Oak Park, IL, to register, call 708-445-1651 or register on-line at

www.zencommunity.org. Cost: $175/$150 for ZCOP members and BPF members.

September 10: Inner Disarmament Workshop: Communication Skills for the 21st Century (9am to 3 pm) at Universalist Unitarian Church, Bloomington, IN, sponsored by Indiana Chapter of BPF. Cost: $50. Althouse will give a public talk on Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 pm at the Universalist Unitarian Church called, "Inner Disarmament: Creating an Enlightened World," suggested donation at door $5.

Download PDF flyer for this event here.

October 14-16: Inner Disarmament Workshop:Communication Skills for the 21st Century at Cleveland Buddhist Temple, Cleveland, OH, sponsored by Cleveland Chapter of BPF. $175/$150 BPF members. Althouse will give a public talk on Friday, Oct. 14th at 7 pm at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple called, "Inner Disarmament: Creating an Enlightened World."  Suggested donation at the door for talk is $10. Contact Dean Williams at 440-537-7104 for more information and to register. You may also register on-line at www.zencommunity.org.

Robert Joshin Althouse is an ordained Buddhist priest and Zen teacher in the White Plum Lineage tradition. In 1992 he started the Zen Center of Hawaii where he continues to teach. He worked as Director of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Joshin has participated in several "bearing witness" retreats with the Peacemaker Community in Auschwitz and has done street retreats in New York, Seattle, and Hilo-Hawaii. In 2004, he started the Zen Community of Oak Park, just outside downtown Chicago. Joshin Sensei teaches Inner Disarmament workshops, which integrate Nonviolent Communication skills with Zen practice. He is a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Board of Directors.