What we are unconscious to silently governs us.

In the same way we’ve inherited individual conditioning (I am conditioned to believe that in order to receive love, it’s important to get things right, for example), we also inherit, absorb, and adopt collective conditioning. The two are so intimately woven that they cannot, with accuracy, be called “two.” The fish does not exist as an alive being outside the water it swims in. If the water is polluted, the fish will be ill. It can be no other way.

In the name of being freed from what doesn’t serve us, this interactive workshop offers a powerful exercise to support seeing our individual conditioning more clearly. Often in practice we stop here, overlooking the impact of collective conditioning. In this session, we’ll apply this exposing exercise to the collective, opening the door to the experience of realizing freedom together.

This workshop is one session in the three-part series taught by Caverly Morgan during the Contemplation by Design Summit. You are welocme to attend one or all three sessions. The other sessions include a lecture titled The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together and a guided practice titled Releasing Striving in Your Practice and Your Life also on October 17th. Caverly also will be co-preseting with Janice Martellucci in a sesison titled Peace with Youth Starts: Insights form Implementing an Inner Curriculum in High Schools. She will be in conversation with Rev. Tenzen David Zimmerman on Oct. 27th.

Caverly Morgan is a meditation teacher who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach, drawing from her eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness. Caverly is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. She is also the founder of Realizing Freedom Together, a non-profit organization dedicated to making practices that lead to liberation for all, accessible to all. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops and online classes internationally. Learn more at caverly morgan.org.

This session is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 15-27, 2025.

The full summit schedule is posted at: https://med.stanford.edu/contemplation/summit.html.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-contemplation-by-design-summit-2025-online-oct-15-27-registration-1520413249959