Thank you all so much for your continued enthusiasm and engagement with the international Wake Up movement. Things are growing (and going!) so quickly that it has been hard to keep up with all the events, emails, blog-posts, and website development..... The young monastics bow deeply in gratitude to all of you for your support and patience ;).

Here’s a little lowdown of what’s been goin’ on...

Following hot on the trail of the UK Wake Up Retreat (17-19 Oct), and Sister Mai's visit to Belgium, the Belgium Wake Up groups organized an excellent weekend in Antwerp, Belgium (24-26 Oct), supported by Brother Man and Brother Tri Tang. Then we had the Francophone retreat at Plum Village, France (1-7 Nov), with dedicated young-people’s dharma discussion groups in each hamlet – a first! Many young monastics went to the new European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Waldbroel, Germany (12-17 Nov) for the inaugural Public Talk and Day of Mindfulness led by Thay and the fourfold sangha. We young ones (including many from the German TTT sangha) met together for noodles and cookies in the gymnasium of the local kindergarten – and laughed about how refreshing it was to see each other off facebook!