

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rest, resilience, renewal, release: Weekend Workshop with Jill Shepherd (non-residential)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 11:30 pm – Sun, 25 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 am
- **Event Description**: The four brahmavihāra heart practices of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity are powerful tools that strengthen our inner resources, helping us to navigate the individual and collective challenges of our times.

Although the brahmavihāra are often taught as formal meditation practices to develop concentration, in this weekend workshop, we will explore a range of different approaches aimed at cultivating these skillful qualities in the midst of everyday life. Through a mix of guided meditations, dharma talks and small group discussion, we will develop the capacity to rest in kindness, strengthen resilience through compassion, orient to appreciative joy for renewal of our energy, and experience the peace of equanimity that comes through the release of reactivity.

Over the course of the days, Jill will offer: 
*Guided meditation, 
*Small group discussion
*Dharma talks

It is best suited to people who have some experience of mindfulness / insight / vipassanā meditation

About Jill Shepherd
Jill Shepherd began practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999. Since that time has lived and worked at several meditation centers and monasteries in the US, Australia, England, and Thailand. She spent seven years on staff at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, where she participated in several long retreats and Buddhist study programmes, as well as offering weekly meditation classes at a nearby prison.

Jill is a graduate of the IMS / Spirit Rock teacher training program in the US, under the guidance of Joseph Goldstein and Gil Fronsdal.

She lives in Aotearoa / New Zealand and is the founding and guiding teacher of Auckland Insight. She teaches internationally, offering insight / vipassanā and brahmavihāra retreats and ongoing study and practice groups focused on bringing the dharma into daily life. She also leads courses and non-residential workshops exploring the relational practice of Insight Dialogue, as developed by Gregory Kramer and colleagues.


Cost: $150 registration fee + dāna/donation* to the teacher
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hawthorn/rest-resilience-renewal-release-weekend-workshop-with-jill-shepherd-non-residential/200029556296144
- **Event Categories**: workshops, meditation, health-wellness, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://melbourneinsightmeditation.org/event/exploring-the-4-brahmavihara-heart-qualities-weekend-non-residential-retreat-with-jill-shepherd/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=hawthorn-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Hawthorn
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Habitat Uniting Church
- **lat**: -37.82428
- **long**: 145.04159
- **full address**: Habitat Uniting Church, 2 Minona St, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia, Hawthorn

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Melbourne Insight Meditation Group (https://allevents.in/org/melbourne-insight-meditation-group/26463461)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 11:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Habitat Uniting Church, 2 Minona St, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia, Hawthorn
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Melbourne Insight Meditation Group
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, meditation, health-wellness, nonprofit
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