A brief history

A brief history of social meditation

  • Multiplayer meditation evolved from earlier social meditation practices.

  • Key influence: Meditation teacher Kenneth Folk, who developed "social noting" in 2010.

  • Original method:

    • Traditional mental noting (from Burmese Buddhism) was done silently during long retreats.

    • Kenneth’s innovation: Doing noting out loud with others—"social noting."

  • Impact:

    • Social noting was 10x easier to teach and learn than mental noting.

    • The speaker and their partner, Emily, trained with Kenneth and began teaching it.

  • Further development (2021):

    • During COVID-19, the speaker trained facilitators and refined the core elements of social meditation.

  • Creation of Multiplayer Meditation:

    • In collaboration with Chris Ewald at Interbeing Inc, the speaker expanded and differentiated social meditation into multiplayer meditation.

    • It retains roots in Kenneth Folk’s innovations but is now a distinct approach with its own unique framework.

  • MOST RECENTLY: We've dropped the moniker "multiplayer meditation" and are sticking with "social meditation".

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