Past Presentations
Past Presentations
"From open-hearted awareness we can bear what seemed unbearable and feel free, creative and related." ~Loch Kelly
Media and Press
- Awards and Reviews for Shift Into Freedom:
- Best Spiritual Books of 2015, Spirituality & Practice
- Top 10 Book of 2015, Spirituality & Health Magazine
- Publisher's Weekly, Book Review
- Psychology Today, Book Coverage and Interview with Loch by Mark Matousek
- Foreword Reviews, Book Review
- New Spirit Journal, Book Review
- Video Interviews and Discussions about Shift Into Freedom and related topics:
- Buddha at the Gas Pump, with Rick Archer
- How to Find Inner Peace Instantly, with Michael Sandler
- Indie Spiritualist on MindPod Network, with Chris Grosso
- The Journey After Awakening, with Adyashanti
- Interviews With the Leading Edge, with Dr. Michael Wayne
- Nonduality Dialogues with Ken Bok
- Audio Interviews & Interview Transcripts about Shift Into Freedom and related topics:
- New Dimensions Radio Interview, “Liberating Yourself Into Open-Hearted Awareness”
- A Better World Radio with Mitchell Rabin, “Awakening as the Next Stage of Human Development.”
- Pointers to Open-Hearted Awareness Part One, Insights at The Edge, with Tami Simon
- Pointers to Open-Hearted Awareness Part Two, Insights at The Edge, with Tami Simon
- Spirit Matters Podcast with Phil Goldberg
- Seekers Forum Dialogue, with Mark Matousek
- The One You Feed Podcast, Dialogue on Awake Awareness
- Janet Connor’s Unity Radio Interview, “Living from Open-Hearted Awareness”
- Rubin Museum blog, On Finding Tranquility in a Busy City
- LifeTips Podcast, Living from Open Hearted Awareness
- Falling Into Awake Awareness Interview Transcript by Iain McNay, Conscious.TV
- Excerpts from Shift Into Freedom
- Tricycle Magazine Blog, “When Am I?”
- DailyOM, “Waking up, Waking in, and Waking out.”
- Conscious2, “The Anatomy of Awareness”
- Omega Institute Blog, “Changing the Channel of Your Mind”
- New York Open Center Blog, “How to Awaken”
- Reality Sandwich, “Effortless Mindfulness vs. Deliberate Mindfulness”
- “How To Practice Effortless Mindfulness” Tricycle Magazine, 2017
Faculty and Board Positions
- Faculty and Meditation Teacher for Luminous Awareness Institute, 2017-2019
- Board of Advisors for iConscious
- NY Open Center Faculty 2018, 8- month program: Meditation and Contemplative Studies Certificate Training
- One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, Yearly Presentation to Seminary Students, 2008 - present
- Sports Psychologist for the NCAA Men's Singles Tennis Champion, 2017
Publications
- “How To Practice Effortless Mindfulness.” Tricycle Magazine, 2017. Online.
- Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy, Sounds True, 2017, Audiobook.
- Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness, Sounds True. 2015 & 2017. Print & Unabridged Audiobook.
- Shift into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness, Sounds True, 2015, Audiobook.
- The Journey after Awakening, Adyashanti & Loch, Open Gate Publishing, 2007, DVD.
- Watkins Magazine, Featured Article on Shift Into Freedom, Spring 2018.
Past Presentations
Online Events
Sounds True sponsored Online Events
- Psychotherapy and Spirituality Summit, Online Presenter, 2017
- Neuroscience Summit, Online Presenter, 2017
- Open Circle Berkeley, Online Presenter, 2017
- Meditation Summit: Online Presenter, 2016
- Waking Up, 30 Perspectives on Spiritual Awakening: Online Presenter, 2015
Tricycle Magazine sponsored Events
- Effortless Mindfulness Six-Week Online Video Course, October 2017
- Open-Hearted Awareness: 4 Part Online Retreat, September 2015
- Free Day of Meditation, Central Park, 2004-07, 2010, with Pat O’Hara, Lama Surya Das, Sharon Salzberg, Traleg Rinpoche and others
Shift Into Freedom Online Course with Google Group Discussion Community
- Four month online meditation course, Teacher, January – April 2016.
World Wide Insight
- Awakening as the Cure for Addiction, February, 2016: video recorded teachings — can be accessed by signing up through the website and searching for Loch’s class.
Adyashanti’s Open Gate, San Jose, California
- Guest host, CafeDharma call-in Internet radio program 2/14/08
- DVD with Loch and Adyashanti: The Journey after Awakening, 5/07
Webinar and Q&A with Stephan Bodian on Effortless Mindfulness, February 2018
Internal Family Systems Webinar Series with Richard Schwartz, March-April 2018
Conferences
Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference, San Francisco
- Pre-Conference Daylong Workshop & Conference Speaker, February 2017
- Nondual Practices and Neuroscience Studies: Presenter, November 2009
- Keynote Speaker, October 2008
Science & Nonduality Conference
- Individual Presentation, “The Unfolding After Initial Awakening”, October 2016
- Panel Discussion: Loch, Mukti, & Francis Bennett “Form is also Emptiness”, October 2016
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Psychotherapy Conference
- Individual Presentation, October 2017
- Individual Presentation: “How to Access Self,” November 2016
Spiritual Summit for Social Change, Keynote Speaker
- New York City, September 13, 2014
Contemplative Alliance Annual Conference
- Speaker and Panelist, Morgan Library, NY, NY, June 2013
United Nations
- Featured Speaker, NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns 5/26/11 and 10/22/09
Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy, New York
- Keynote Speaker at Annual Conference, November 2009
- Featured Speaker at Annual Conference, March 2007
Integral Wisdom Conference, New York, February, 2014
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
- Individual Presentation, March 2018
GFIM World Congress of Integrative Medicines: Elements of Healing, March 2018
- Special Panel Presentation with Gerald Epstein
Retreats
Mandali Center, Milan, Italy
- Five-Day Workshop, taught with Dick Schwartz, PhD, June 2017
Mt. Madonna Center, Watsonville, CA
- Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, April, 2017
- Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, February, 2016
Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
- Level 2 Weekend Retreat, Teacher: May, 2017
- Co-presentation with Dan Siegel, MD
- Level 2 Weekend Retreat, Teacher: April, 2016
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY,
- Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: July, 2017
- Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: May, 2016
- Five Day Residential Retreat, Teacher: July, 2015
- International Dharma Teachers Gathering, Presenter: June 1-5th, 2015
Pendle Hill Retreat Center, Wallingford, PA
- Weekend Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
- Weekend Retreat: Teacher, November 2015
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, Massachusetts
- Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher: September 2017
- Weekend Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2015
- Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher, May 2010
- Weekend Residential Retreat, Teacher May 2009
- Residential Retreat, Teacher, April 2008
Meeuwenveen Accommodations, Havelte, Netherlands
- Four Day Residential Retreat, Teacher: July 2017
Adyashanti’s Open Gate, San Jose, California
- Asked to substitute teach for Adyashanti during his illness, 2008
- Five-Day Silent Retreat, Asilomar, California, February 2008
- Evening Presentation: Palo Alto, February 2008
- Evening Presentation: Palo Alto, March 2008
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
- Five Day Residential Retreat, Co-Teacher with Richard Schwartz, January 2018
Aherlow Castle, Ireland
- Weekend Workshop, May 2017
Presentations and Workshops
Open Circle Center, Bay Area, CA
- Weekend Workshop, Berkeley and Marin, October 2017
- Evening of Inquiry, April 2017
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat, October 2016
- Evening of Inquiry & Daylong Retreats: January, 2016
Austin, Young Presidents Organization (YPO)
- Meditation Workshop, April 2017
New York Insight Meditation Center, New York
- Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, November 2017
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, January 2017
- Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, September 2016
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, September, 2015
- Teachers Council Member 1998–2004
- Meditation Classes, 1998–present
One Spirit Learning Alliance, New York
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat with Loch and Francis Bennett, January 2017
- The Course of Awakening, 2008–2012
- Mystic Heart Course, 2011
Tibet House US, New York
- Daylong Workshop: Teacher, February 2018
- Evening of Inquiry: Teacher, December 2017
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October, 2016
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October, 2015
- Tibet House Faculty, Meditation Classes: 1995–present
Den Meditation, Los Angeles
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, February 2017
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, February 2016
Boulder, Colorado
- Daylong Retreat, Community United Church of Christ: Teacher, March 2017
- Daylong Retreat, Community United Church of Christ: Teacher, January 2015
Tara Brach’s Insight Meditation Community of Washington, Bethesda, MD
- Guest Teacher: Evening and Daylong Retreat, September 2016
- Guest Teacher: Evening and Daylong Retreat, September 2015
Aspen, Colorado
- Daylong Retreat, Aspen Chapel: Teacher, July 2016
Boston Center For Contemplative Practice, Newton MA
- Daylong Workshop: Teacher, March 2018
- Daylong Training for IFS Therapists: Teacher, March 2018
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: October 2015
Samadhi Yoga, Newton MA
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: Teacher, October 2016
- Weekend Non-Residential Retreat: October 2015
Rubin Museum, New York
- Brainwave Series: Dialogue with Physicist Piet Hut, February 2018
- Book Signing and Evening of Inquiry, September 2015
- Nonduality and Science Talk, March 2012
- Brainwave Series: How to Find Peace of Mind, with New York University neuroscientist Zoran Josipovic, PhD, March 2011
- BrainWave Series: How God Changes Your Brain, with author Andrew Newberg, MD, March 2009
- Spirituality, Science, and Consciousness Lectures with Dr. Kurt Johnson, author of bestselling The Coming Interspiritual Age, January & March 2008
Ithaca, NY
- Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, April 2017
- Weekend Retreat, Living from Open-Hearted Awareness, March 2016
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, Portland, OR
- Evening of Inquiry & Daylong Retreat: January 15-16, 2016
Unity of Tustin Church, Tustin, CA
- Weekend Retreat: Living from Open-Hearted Awareness, December 2015
New York Open Center, New York
- Evening Meditation and Book Signing, September, 2015
- Nondual Meditation and Inquiry, October 2010
- Meditation & Yoga Presentation, with yoga teacher Jill Satterfield September 2009
- Meditation in the Modern World Conference, panelist with Matthew Fox, January 2008
- Core Faculty, Year Long Training Programs, Spirituality and Psychotherapy, 2005-2008
Mandala Yoga Center, Amagansett, New York
- Natural Meditation Classes, 2007–2016
Heythrop College, University of London, London, UK
- Daylong Retreat, Teacher, June 2017
Lewes Friends Meeting House, Lewes, East Sussex, UK
- Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, June 2017
Watkins Books, London, UK
- Shift Into Freedom Book Signing Event & Meditation, June 2017
Insight LA, Santa Monica, CA
- Evening of Inquiry, Teacher, February 2017
Synthego Corporation, San Francisco, CA
- Private Daylong Workshop, Teacher, January 2018
Finders Course
- Webinar, Teacher, January 2018
IFS Training in NYC, Teacher, April 2018