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Awaken Your Sunday
With Zen Meditation, Wisdom & Connection.

Upcoming Programming

Community Welcome Night - October 6
$0.00

Curious about Zen, or lookiing for a spiritual community to support your meditation practice? Drop in to tour the center, enjoy snacks and conversation, and try a simple meditation–no experience needed. All are welcome.

Come on by between 7:00-8:00 PM. We’re at 46 Lake St. in Oak Park.

Tuning In - Oct. 17
from $35.00

1 – 4pm
Hybrid

Mindfulness, Self-Awareness and the Path Away from Burnout

3 hour experiential workshop

Burnout doesn't usually announce itself—it creeps in as a low hum of exhaustion, a shorter fuse, a growing sense that nothing you do quite lands anymore. Tuning In: Mindfulness, Self-Awareness and the Path Away from Burnout is a 3-hour workshop built for anyone who's felt that hum lately: managers, caregivers, educators, healthcare workers, or simply people juggling more than their nervous system was built to hold. Rather than another talk about “self-care,” this is a working session—part teaching, part guided practice, part honest reflection—designed to help you actually see your own patterns before they turn into a crisis.

Over three hours, you'll move through four guided mindfulness practices, a personal self-mapping exercise that maps what's draining you against what actually restores you, and conversations that make burnout feel less like a private failure and more like a shared, workable problem. You'll leave with a clear picture of your own early-warning signs, one specific boundary tied to a value you actually hold, and a 30-day micro-commitment you can realistically keep—not a vague resolution, but a concrete next step.

This workshop won't erase your workload or rewrite your calendar. What it will do is give you language for what you're experiencing, tools you can use in under five minutes anywhere, and space to work through it with others. If you've been running on empty and telling yourself it's temporary, this is a chance to pause long enough to actually check.

Early bird specials until Sept. 26
$35 members (regular $40)
$50 nonmembers (regular $55)

Teacher will be Rev. Jacquelyn Genshin Weiner-O’Shea, LMFT, CMIP

Fall 7/3 Day Retreat, Sept.6-12
from $0.00

FIND STILLNESS IN THE SEASON OF CHANGE

A Zen Buddhist Meditation Retreat held in the quiet turning of the season, featuring intensive meditation practice, uplifting services, inspiring dharma talks, and personalized one-on-one sessions with experienced teachers. Participants may join either in-person or through online options. This retreat is designed as a nonresidential experience. Retreat is nonresidential.


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Cultivating mindful awareness through our practice

Zen meditation and the cultivation of mindful awareness form the core of our practice, offering profound benefits such as stress management, deeper relationships, and a richer life experience.

A man with long white hair and glasses is sitting in a black chair in a mindfulness class at Zen Center | Zen Life & Meditation Center | Oak Park, IL

The center is like a breath of fresh air in this chaotic and ungrounded time in history. It has given me an insightful perspective on what is essential in this life we all share.

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