Transforming Grief through the Practice of Contemplative Photography
Art + Wellness | Registration opens 5/13/2025 9:00 AM EDT
Contemplative photography can be an invaluable tool for individuals struggling to integrate grief and loss. Learning to pause, notice, reflect, and create, inspires a sense of confidence, resilience, gratitude, clarity, and wisdom. Open to anyone who has or is experiencing a significant loss, this class explores grief through the medium of photography. Guided steps and weekly photographic explorations guide participants through a healing journey to find authentic meaning and peace.
This class is great for photographers, artists at heart, or the curious wanting to explore the symbiotic relationship between contemplative practice and photography. You can use whatever camera that is available to you, including your cell phone.
Timothy Auman
I am an ordained lay Buddhist, certified mindfulness teacher, and former university chaplain dedicated to the application of Taoist and Zen thought to the issues of everyday life. As a visual artist, my approach to photography focuses on learning (or perhaps we could say re-learning) how to see. My work is influenced by the Miksang (the Tibetan word for “good eye”) movement, having studied with John McQuade and Miriam Hall for many years. In contemplative photography, we focus on taking the time to actually see, to become aware of and present with what is actually happening in the phenomenal world, and then create an equivalent image with our camera. The main difference between Miksang Contemplative Photography and other forms of photography is that Miksang is based on clear perception before an overlay of thoughts, interpretations, preferences, story lines, likes and dislikes, what we think might make a good image and so forth arise. Meditation, dharma teachings and contemplation are woven into all I teach. If you want to know more about contemplative photography, please sign up for a class.