I had the privilege last Friday of leading a meditation class and guided meditation via Zoom for about 50 employees at UBS, where a friend of mine has been organizing activities for AAPI month. I’m sharing this meditation flow chart I put together for anyone who is interested in how I sequenced a meditation class for a secular setting. This was a roughly 12 minute meditation, backed by the music “Dream 2” by David Buchs, which I played on a loop. (The slide template is from myfreeslides.)
For a Christian audience and with a time frame of 15-20 minutes, I might start with these same steps and proceed to some kind of contemplative prayer – a Lectio Divina, a reflection on Scripture, a breath prayer, an Examen, or simply a conversation with God. I would also frame the time of prayer by asking God to guide our time, and then thanking him for his presence.
During the discussion time after the guided meditation, most of the questions and comments I received came from people who had been struggling to meditate on their own and found it so much easier to be gently guided into a contemplative space. If that’s your experience, I encourage you to listen to this guided meditation on Romans 8 at The Stillness Collective and to subscribe to the website for information on upcoming releases.