Living Fearlessly: Facing the Inevitable
An Online Offering
with Barbara Doshin Ende and Peggy Yoshin Peloquin
Tuesdays, April 5th, 2022 through May 31st, 2022 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm ET
Living Fearlessly is an opportunity to join with others eager to discuss and wonder about life in the context of death. Together we will explore the emotional, spiritual and practical questions that arise when we bring the truth of our mortality to our awareness. As a group we will explore the beliefs, attitudes, and feelings that guide our decisions about how we want to prepare for the inevitable. Guest presenters will talk with us about medical considerations, legal issues, funeral planning and through written work we will uncover new insights into what brings our life, and death, meaning.
In this 9 week workshop we will:
- Come together as a community to explore our questions, beliefs and fears surrounding the often unnamed certainty of our own mortality
- Gain knowledge about Advanced Directives for end of life care
- Explore burial options
- Plan our funeral/memorial
- Consider our end of life wishes
- Explore estate planning
- Gain insight into what we want, what we want to leave behind, and how we want to live each precious moment
Doshin Ende and Yoshin Peloquin are chaplains with New York Zen Center. Doshin is the Director of Community Outreach and Contemplative Care and Yoshin is a Mentor with Foundations in Contemplative Care program.
Financial Support: New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care endeavors to make our programs accessible. If the cost of this program is prohibitive, please choose the scholarship tier that would make it possible for you to attend. Please note that there are a limited number of scholarship seats available.
About the Facilitators:
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 Barbara Doshin Ende As Co-Director of Contemplative Care and Staff Chaplain, Doshin facilitates Contemplative Resilience, is a mentor to Chaplaincy Interns and Volunteers, oversees community support programs, and provides individual spiritual support and grief counseling. She has a Masters in Psychology and a Masters in Pastoral Care and Counseling and completed 5 units of Clinical Pastoral Education with NYZC. Doshin coordinated services in adult group homes for the New York State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities for thirty-three years and was a member of both the Ethics Committee and Incident Review Committee. During that time she also consulted as a Behavioral Specialist providing direct counseling to people with developmental disabilities and psychiatric illness living in the community. Doshin continues working in the field, providing guardianship advocacy to individuals with disabilities living in nursing facilities and community care homes. Doshin is a formal Zen student and grounds her work in her practice and work with her teacher, Chodo Campbell.
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 Peggy Yoshin Peloquin came to NYZC inspired by the Contemplative Care component in the first Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) program. She has worked as a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, and curator, reflecting her life-long involvement in embodiment and somatic practice. She received a BPH from Thomas Jefferson College, is a 500 RYT, and UZIT, a Level II Reiki practitioner, a Bessie award winner, taught at the Dean Ornish Heart Disease reversal program and trained as a SEED leader. She facilitates white caucus groups at (WPC) White Privilege conference from 2014 to present. She is a Formal Zen Student of Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Since completing the Foundations for Contemplative Care Program in 2016, she has studied Clinical Pastoral Education and completed 3 ½ units of CPE at NYZC, while providing contemplative chaplain care at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Isabella Geriatric Home and as a mentor for the Foundations program since 2019. She teaches dance, yoga, mindfulness, and Life-skills from 1996-present at (LREI) Little Red School House, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and family. Yoshin has dedicated her life to service, whether at the bedside or in the classroom.
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