Meditation with Mercy Book Club

Walk the book’s path together

Meditation with Mercy is a beginner’s path: sitting and walking meditation in small blocks that grow to ten minutes a day, with mercy for the mind that wanders and the inner critic that keeps score. The book club is the company for that path. We meet to practice, read, reflect, and notice the small acts of mercy that let a practice become part of ordinary life. You are welcome whether you are beginning, returning, or looking for companionship in practice.

When

Six lunchtime meetings live online, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Central. The link comes with sign-up.

How the course fits the book

If you are new, begin with two weeks of self-study: read the foundation chapters, why meditate, what mercy is, how to meditate, and what happens when you do, and practice three to five minutes a day, supported by pre-recorded instruction from Kim that opens to you the moment you register. Then we gather live online for six meetings each season, one for each of the movements that follow: Settle, See, Soften, Return, Find Your Rhythm, and Choose If and When to Begin Again. Your daily practice keeps the book’s own eight-week pace; the meetings are where you bring what you’re finding.

2027 courses

Every course walks the same path; the dates below are the live meetings, and self-study begins when you register. If you’ve walked it before, you’ll know from Chapter 10 that beginning again on purpose is the practice, not a repeat of it.

• Winter: registration opens January 19, 2027. Meets February 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, and 23 (no meeting February 18).
• Spring: registration opens May 12, 2027. Meets May 25 and 27, June 1, 3, 8, and 10.
• Fall: registration opens September 1, 2027. Meets September 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, and 30.

New members are welcome in any course. Registration closes the week before each course begins.

Join by course or year

Meetings are $20 each, $120 for a full course of six. A one-year membership is $300 and covers all eighteen meetings across the three courses. The book is purchased separately.

The book

Meditation with Mercy is a simple eight-week path for beginners: start small, set down the case you’ve been building against yourself, and carry practice into an ordinary day. Each chapter ends with that week’s practice and a few journal prompts, and every guided practice is recorded in Kim’s voice, a QR code away. It comes out January 19, 2027, with its companion Practice Journal.