Individual Paths, Collective Support:

A 5-month

MMTCP Alumni Journey

March - July 2025

Registration closed—Please email Alison if you’re interested in a future cohort.

OPEN TO ALL MMTCP GRADS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ALISON WAS YOUR MENTOR

Why this offering?

In response to your feedback! During our closing 1:1s, many of you shared:

  • Meeting regularly in sangha has supported your teaching, personal practice, and integration of mindfulness into daily life.

  • Continued mentorship with me after MMTCP came to a close would be helpful to your practice and teaching.

Read on for details!

*Why five months? It’s a great length of time for a pilot!

Owls meditating in a Zen style: eyes open :)

“Individual Paths, Collective Support” Information

After your graduation from MMTCP, continue to grow as a teacher-practitioner by:

1. Connecting with Alison for 1:1 mentoring

2. Meeting with a supportive MMTCP alumni sangha

3. Learning informal practices you can integrate into your life and teaching

Important note: “Individual Paths, Collective Support” is open to MMTCP graduates from the past four cohorts, regardless of whether or not you were one of Alison’s mentees.

1. Connect with Alison for 1:1 mentoring

For many teacher-practitioners, including me, regular 1:1 mentoring is key to continued growth and development. The first component of these five months together will be 1:1 hourlong mentoring sessions with me, once a month for five months, beginning March 2025 (March, April, May, June, July), scheduled at mutually agreeable times. In February, you will receive the scheduling link and you can sign up for all 5 of your sessions.

In each 60-minute 1:1, we’ll explore your reflections and questions about teaching and practice “on and off the cushion” from a mindfulness and compassion cultivation standpoint. You might choose to spend multiple sessions doing a deep dive into a particular arena of your life that feels especially alive for you or change topics from session to session. For example, you might spend all 5 sessions on teaching-related questions, or spend one session on forgiveness, the next on ways to enliven your personal practice and the session after that on curriculum development for an upcoming course you’re teaching.

Our time together will generally follow this structure:

  • A few minutes of sitting together as a way of arriving and transitioning into the session

  • Checking in and catching up

  • Touching base about what topics feel most important to you to discuss today

  • Discussing and exploring them! If it feels relevant and of interest to you, this period could involve guided inquiry, such as somatic inquiry, light-touch Parts work (from Internal Family Systems), variations of RAIN, journaling prompts, and/or practices from Buddhist psychology. If you’d like thought partnership around an upcoming course you’re teaching, I could share my screen and take notes as we brainstorm together. And if optional “homework” between sessions sounds up your alley, we can make sure you leave each session with your next assignment!

  • Closing journaling: What are you taking away from this time together? Next steps?

  • Check out

My hope is that you leave our 1:1 time together feeling uplifted and empowered to take any next steps we’ve discussed.

2. Meet with a supportive MMTCP alumni sangha

The communal complement to our 1:1 time together will be *one* 90-minute sangha session per month facilitated by me.

  • I will offer two sanghas each month, one that meets on Sundays from 2-3:30 pm ET and one that meets on Wednesdays from 2-3:30 pm ET. During registration, you will be asked to choose which day of the week works best for you: Sunday, Wednesday, or availability for either. In February, you will receive an email with your sangha assignment: Sunday or Wednesday.

    • To keep group size down and to support community building from month to month, you will only be registered for one group.

  • Your group will meet for the first time in March 2025.

    • Wednesday 2025 group dates: March 12, April 16, May 14, June 11, July 16

    • Sunday 2025 group dates: March 9, April 6, May 18, June 22, July 20

  • Recordings: Sangha sessions will be recorded and each recording will be shared soon after each session. However, the power of in-real-time sangha is invaluable: please plan to attend at least 4 of the 5 sessions.

  • Monthly emails: An email will arrive in your inbox each month with a reminder about your upcoming sangha session, notes on practice and teaching, and (of course!) an inspirational quote or poem.

Our sangha time will include these elements:

We’ll begin by sitting together, followed by check-ins. I will offer a brief reflection on trends I’m noticing in 1:1s and/or a short teaching. From there we’ll move into a conversation on teaching, practice, and life as 21st-century practitioners. Questions welcome! These sessions will be organic and intuitively structured: If there’s shared interest in a particular kind of guided inquiry, we may go that route. I will also introduce specific practices and teaching strategies that are not part of the MMTCP curriculum.

My hope is that you leave each session with an embodied sense that you are part of a global sangha of teacher-practitioners—and that you have new insights, inquiries, and practices to explore until we meet again.

3. Learn informal practices

Each time we meet, we’ll experiment with a different informal practice that you can incorporate into your daily life and teaching.

These informal practices fall into different categories, such as:

  • body-based

  • visual

  • phrases

  • acronyms

  • touchstones

As many teachers have said, “brief moments of awareness repeated many times become continuous.”

Registration and Pricing

“Individual Paths, Collective Support: An MMTCP Alumni Journey,” is offered on a three-tiered sliding scale explained below. Please choose the registration link that makes sense for you and your financial circumstances. If paying in installments works best for you, you’re welcome to pay in two installments. If you would prefer three or more installments, please email me to set that up.

Sustainer Rate for the 10-session journey (5 60-minute 1:1s, 5 90-minute sangha sessions, monthly emails):

The Sustainer Rate reflects the actual cost of participating: $1,200 USD total.

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Sustainer Rate and paying in full

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Sustainer rate and paying the first of two installments ($600). You will receive an email with the second installment link in May.

Giver Rate for the 10-session journey (5 60-minute 1:1s, 5 90-minute sangha sessions, monthly emails):

The Giver Rate covers the cost of your participation and generously supports the participation of those who are paying the Base Rate: $1,500 USD total.

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Giver Rate and paying in full

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Giver rate and paying the first of two installments ($750). You will receive an email with the second installment link in May.

Base Rate for the 10-session journey (5 60-minute 1:1s, 5 90-minute sangha sessions, monthly emails):

If the Sustainer Rate is not financially possible for you, please participate at the Base Rate: $900 total, or two installments of $450 USD.

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Base Rate and paying in full

  • Registration link if you’re registering at the Base rate and paying the first of two installments ($450). You will receive an email with the second installment link in May.

If you would like to participate but the Base rate is more than what your financial circumstances allow, please email me to discuss possibilities.

A poem in the spirit of “Individual Paths, Collective Support”

“Belonging”

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

And if it’s true we are alone,

we are alone together,

the way blades of grass are alone,

but exist as a field.

Sometimes I feel it,

the green fuse that ignites us,

the wild thrum that unites us,

an inner hum that reminds us of our shared humanity.

Just as thirty-five trillion red blood cells join in one body to become one blood.

Just as one hundred thirty-six thousand notes make up one symphony.

Alone as we are, our small voices weave into the one big conversation.

Our actions are essential to the one infinite story of what it is to be alive.

When we feel alone,

we belong to the grand communion of those who sometimes feel alone— we are the dust,

the dust that hopes,

a rising of dust,

a thrill of dust,

the dust that dances in the light with all other dust,

the dust that makes the world.

To aloneness, to togetherness, and to endings and beginnings full of sangha and support!

Excited for this five-month experiment!

Please email me with questions: alison@twowingsmindfulness.com