Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a comprehensive, online training that teaches educators, family members, and caregivers (18+ years old) to approach, assess, and assist a young person with a mental health challenge or substance use concern.
Just as CPR or First Aid helps you assist an individual in a medical crisis by following specific steps, YMHFA helps you assist a young person experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis using specific steps until appropriate help is received or until the crisis is resolved.

Are you looking…
To develop a calm, stable and joyful mind?
For support to maintain your meditation practice?
For a spiritual home and community?
To learn what Buddhism teachings are all about?
The Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers a high quality curriculum of instruction in Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy. The Center was founded in 1997 at the direction of Shamar Rinpoche. Since then, hundreds of students have come to learn and practice in a modern, non-sectarian environment focused on authentic Buddhist teachings taught and practiced by authentic teachers. We are a diverse community of practitioners encompassing all ages and levels of practice. Dawa Tarchin Phillipsis the resident teacher, and we regularly host visiting teachers.
Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center offers …
•Weekly Dharma teachings
•Weekly meditation session led by sangha members
•Frequent "Introduction to Meditation" classes
•Weekend workshops on topics such as advanced practice, overcoming adversity, working with emotions, compassion and loving kindness, and Buddhist philosophy
•Biannual 5 day residential retreats
•Opportunities to take Refuge, Bodhisattva and Householder vows
Come join us. All are welcome.

Start the New Year...DANCING! World Dance for Humanity invites you to their FREE dance parties on Zoom, NEW YEAR'S EVE and NEW YEAR'S DAY!

PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE ALUMNI RELATIONS AND PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE A NEW LIVESTREAM EVENT DURING 9TH ANNUAL GLOBAL “A TOAST HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD” DECEMBER 31, 2020

Free classical music concert from your local philharmonic!

Tuesday Evening Online Meditation. 6-7 PM

Engage in formal practice with your sangha! The three pillars of spiritual growth are to study, reflect, and meditate. Opportunities to meditate abound, but the support we give and receive when we come together as a community offers priceless and boundless multipliers to our meditation practice.

Start off the new year by creating loose, gestural drawings of Ganesha, the Hindu deity believed to be the remover of obstacles. Practice 2 to 5-minute sketches, drawing from a photo of SBMA’s 11th-century dancing Ganesha carved from sandstone.

View the inspiration image for this class on the Museum’s online collection here.

Required supplies

Prismacolor ebony pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
Meet your instructor
Tina Villadolid has been a Teaching Artist for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for over 22 years. Connecting with the people in her community through art has brought her so much joy! Tina loves to paint with oils, sculpt with clay, create installation art, draw portraits with charcoal, and write songs. She is conversational in Spanish, has two grandchildren, is originally from New York City, and lives with her cat, Chappie James, Jr.

Ticket Cost:
Workshop via Zoom: FREE

Happy New Year!

Come meet the SafeTechSBC team and environmental attorney, Mark Pollock who will be negotiating on our behalf with the SB City Attorney to amend the ordinance.

This is very important and everyone should know about this ordinance if they want to protect their homes from radio-frequency radiation antennas being installed in their front yards.

Tell your family, friends and neighbors about our website.

Before you attend, learn more on our website, review the talking points and send in your written public comment by Friday, January 15, 2021 on the "Take Action" page for City of Santa Barbara at: https://safetechsbc.org/take-action/city-of-santa-barbara/

Register for the zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduCvrzssE9KHMVY-Fib_3JTpGqJeOA97

Get a jump start. Here is a link to the Environmental Health Trust website with 10 STEPS TO SAFE TECH: https://ehtrust.org/educate-yourself/ten-steps-to-safe-tech/

Thank you!
SafeTechSBC

Jan 7 and Jan 14 (Thursday 7-9 PM) Finding Freedom with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Appreciated by students for his joy, insight, and clarity of presentation, Dawa Tarchin Phillips embodies the unique perspectives of Western scholarship and neuro-scientific research and the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama.

PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends, and Allies United with LGBTQ People) Santa Barbara invites you to their January virtual meeting "Medical and Social Transition Options for Transgender People: How To Navigate". An expert panel will answer common questions regarding the steps in gender transition. This Zoom meeting requires pre-registration. Please email pflagsantabarbara@gmail.com to register for the meeting.

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they are joined by Groundbreaking Author and Essayist: Ta-Nehisi Coates.