Mentoring & Guidance

Individual Year-Long Mentoring Program

The Individual Year-Long Mentoring Program is for people who have a deep interest and commitment to their own unfoldment as they experience it in their worldly lives. It is helpful for people who are sincerely interested in the deeper questions of life in engaging “the mystery” as householders.

The Mentoring Program has an emphasis on the broader Buddhist / spiritual path including a full spectrum of Buddhist practices, modern personality work, and integration and embodiment of purification, insight, and awakening into our worldly life as we live it. Monthly topics/practices include:  Introduction; Working with the personality through the Enneagram; Inquiry and the Judge/SuperEgo; Sila and Wholesome Living; Awakening; the Bramaviharas and Bodhicitta; Samatha; Vipassana; Dzogchen and Non-duality; Embodiment and Body-based Practices; Worldly Practice and Socially Engaged Buddhism; and Your Dharma Vision and Intention. Engaging in mentoring for a full year provides an understanding and experience of practices that are important to consider for a well-rounded spiritual unfoldment of one’s deepest nature.

The program includes video and audio recordings of Tina’s teaching on each monthly practice, a reading list for each month with links to further audios/videos,  homework/reflection questions, and monthly 1:1 mentoring sessions with Tina via Zoom.  In cases where more than one person is doing the program at a time, and individuals want contact with other like-minded people, access to “dharma buddies” from around the world may also be available. Or, you could choose to do the program with a friend that you already know, and do the program together. The cost for this is $2295 for twelve 55-minute sessions, plus all the materials on education platform (twelve videos/audios, readings, and reflection questions). You can start any time, with the program lasting a year. If you are interested, please see the Individual Mentoring Program in our Store. If you want to move ahead, please email via the Contacts Page (before purchasing) to find out when Tina can start with new students (often there is a wait list to start).

1:1 Spiritual Mentoring and Guidance Sessions

If you have very simple and short questions, we may be able to respond to these briefly by email. Visit the “Contact Us” page to send an email.

For more extended or ongoing inquiries, Tina and some LMS Affiliated Professionals (Kalyana-Mitta “Spiritual Friends”) offer individual spiritual guidance and mentoring sessions via Zoom/phone. The focus of these calls is your spiritual practice and how it informs your worldly life. As Tina worked as a professional coach for many years, and has been in the Diamond Approach for nearly 20 years, she can also offer you tools as part of your spiritual mentoring with which you can further understand your personality structure, and how it both supports your practice and  manifests as hindrances.

Spiritual guidance is offered as a 55-minute zoom session. Please email via the Contacts Page first to find out when Tina’s or LMS Affiliated Professionals’ next openings are available (sometimes there is a wait). One-on-one sessions of 55 minutes are offered on a sliding scale of $230 to $190.  Fees for Affiliated Professionals are the same. Payment is made in advance (once you have made contact) in order to hold your space.  Please pay via PayPal using the button below, or send your PayPal payment to LuminousMindSangha@email.com (note this is NOT gmail). Please enter the amount appropriate for your session, according to the sliding scale above. Once your session time is held, please make sure to be there for the time of your session, as missed appointments (unless for health or family emergencies) count as a session.

One-on-one guidance for solo retreats is also available with Jennifer Wheeler. In order to request solo retreat guidance, please email via the Contacts Page first to check availability. If Jennifer is available, you can then purchase a “Retreat in a Box” with sessions included, from the Retreats-in-a-Box page.

Dharma Talks and Retreats by Invitation

Tina is available to give dharma talks via Zoom (or possibly at your location), and to lead a retreat at your location. For a sample of dharma talks, please visit the Talks page. If you or your sangha are interested in organizing a retreat or dharma talk for Tina to lead, please contact Luminous Mind Sangha directly via the Contacts page.

Code of Ethics

Tina and all Luminous Mind Sangha Affiliated Professionals adhere to the Teacher Code of Ethics adopted by the Teachers’ Councils of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society as well as the Spirit Rock Statement of Values.