Event name
Resting in Kindness Workshop
When
Mon 07 / 13 / 2026
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Where
Village Social Hall
410 D Street
Petalluma CA 94952
410 D Street
Petalluma CA 94952
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited Capacity: 25 spots available
Price
FREE
In a time of separation and anxiety worldwide, I will offer a choice of Resting in Kindness. First, I will share stories from my personal and professional life as I have experienced and told in my memoir, Tracking Kindness: A Memoir of Life’s Teachings in Kindness (2025). Next, you will rest safely in the present moment of Kindness through my guided Kindness meditation. We will experience this unifying Kindness through this experiential meditation together. We will explore how to practice kindness as we age.
There will be an opportunity to share your experience of Kindness and how you bring self-kindness to your life. You will be given guidelines on self-kindness, including a dialogue with your kindness advocate and your inner critic, and setting boundaries as a practice of self-kindness. Through kindness, we will care for each other and the differences that bind us together as a community in aging. Looking forward to resting in kindness with all of you.
Myrtle Heery, Ph.D.
Born and raised in Savannah, GA, has been a resident of Petaluma nearly fifty years, raising her son in Petaluma, and now has a visiting grandson. She is a former Associate Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University. She has had a private psychotherapy practice in Petaluma as a Marriage and Family Therapist, a volunteer at Hospice of Petaluma helping set up and maintain grief support groups. She is presently the Director, International Institute for
Humanistic Studies, where she teaches on Zoom to a diverse group of therapists serving a wide range of populations in need. Often offering scholarships for training to minorities. She founded Tonglen Press, where she has written and published: Tracking Kindness, A Memoir of Life’s Teachings in Kindness, Awakening to Aging, Glimpsing the Gifts of Aging and Unearthing the Moment, Mindful Applications of Existential-Humanistic and Transpersonal
Psychotherapy.
Born and raised in Savannah, GA, has been a resident of Petaluma nearly fifty years, raising her son in Petaluma, and now has a visiting grandson. She is a former Associate Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University. She has had a private psychotherapy practice in Petaluma as a Marriage and Family Therapist, a volunteer at Hospice of Petaluma helping set up and maintain grief support groups. She is presently the Director, International Institute for
Humanistic Studies, where she teaches on Zoom to a diverse group of therapists serving a wide range of populations in need. Often offering scholarships for training to minorities. She founded Tonglen Press, where she has written and published: Tracking Kindness, A Memoir of Life’s Teachings in Kindness, Awakening to Aging, Glimpsing the Gifts of Aging and Unearthing the Moment, Mindful Applications of Existential-Humanistic and Transpersonal
Psychotherapy.