Teaching

Please call the phone numbers listed below to pre-register for conferences and workshops. Make your reservations early as space is limited.


  MARCH 14: New Jersey Medical School, Humanism Day, Keynote, Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine, Newark, NJ, (web link), contact 973-972-5041, normentm@umdnj.edu

  APRIL 13-15: Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art, a year-long journey, four weekends: April 13-15, 2012, July 13-15, 2012, Nov 9-11, 2012, April 12-14, 2013, Kalamazoo. Limit 24. For more info and to register, see Three Intentions (web link)

  APRIL 21: As Far As the Heart Can See: Staying Close to What is Sacred, Day-long Workshop, Insight Event, Washington, DC, (web link),
contact kim@insighteventsusa.com or call (210)316-1818

 MAY 11-13: The Book of Awakening, Weekend Retreat, The Sophia Institute, Charleston, SC (web link), contact 843-720-8528

 MAY 25-27: Staying Awake: The Ordinary Art, Weekend Retreat, Hollyhock Retreat Center, Cortes Island, British Columbia (web link), contact Clare Day (clare@hollyhock.ca)

  AUG 22-26: Sounds True Conference, Estes Park, CO, Keynote and Three    Workshops (web link)

 SEPT 21-23: Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Weekend Retreat, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: The Work of Reverence (web link), contact Hilary Leighton (Hilary.Leighton@RoyalRoads.ca)

 OCT 12-13: Making Sense of Our Experience, Weekend Retreat, Transformations Center, Kalamazoo, MI (web link), contact Christine Parks (cparks@csjoseph.org)

• OCT 26-28: Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, Weekend Retreat, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, register at (web link)


In 2011, Mark Will appear at:

  MAY 23: Aging Services for Michigan Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, The Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Keynote, The Power of Wisdom, and Workshop, The Exquisite Risk, register at (web link)

  JUNE 3-5: Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Weekend Retreat, Staying Close to What is Sacred: Stories within Stories, the Wisdom of Our Lives, register at (web link)

 SEPT 29: Publication Reading and Reception for As Far As the Heart Can See, Primitive Gallery, 7PM, 130 N Jefferson St Chicago, IL 60661, 312-575-960 (web link)

  SEPT 30: One Day Workshop, As Far As the Heart Can See: Staying Close to What is Sacred, 1900 W. Fulton St. Chicago, IL 60612, 312-243-6743
(web link)

  OCT 21-23: Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, Weekend Retreat, The Exquisite Risk, register at (web link)

 NOV 3-5: Trauma and Addiction Disorders Conference, Keynote and Workshop, Delray Beach, FL (web link)

 NOV 9: Publication Reading for As Far As the Heart Can See, Kalamazoo College, Stetson Chapel, 7PM (web link), contact Jim Van Sweden (James.VanSweden@kzoo.edu, 269-337-7291)

 DEC 2-3: Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids MI, As Far As the Heart Can See: The Practice of Being Human, Friday evening Reading and Conversation and Saturday Retreat (web link), contact Mark Walstrom, markwalstrom@yahoo.com (markwalstrom@yahoo.com)


In 2010, Mark appeard at:

  MARCH 26-28: Weekend Retreat, Creative Conversations, The Governor Calvert, an Historic Inn of Annapolis, MD. For more information: e-mail: info@creativeconversations.org or call: 443-223-5341 (web link)

 SEPT 24-26: The Promise of the Inner World, Weekend Retreat, The Sophia Institute, Charleston, SC, 843-720-8528 (web link