Susan Morgan, CNS is a psychotherapist in Cambridge, MA. She is an Advisory Board and faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and contributing author to “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy”. Susan’s longstanding meditation practice includes a four-year meditation retreat at the Forest Refuge, along with yearly three months of retreat. For 25 years she has been leading retreats for caregivers. Since the pandemic, she and her partner Bill have led The Daily Sit, a LIVE daily online practice group offering short Dharma Talks, guided meditations and community connection tailored to the householder life. She identifies as a lay-monastic, and sees her life and practice as a bridge between the contemplative and secular paths. Integrating mindfulness into daily life is core to her teaching along with lovingkindness and mindfulness of the body. For more information: billandsusan.org.
Events with Susan Morgan, MSN, RN, CS
July 20 - 29, 2025
Many psychotherapists have been studying mindfulness, compassion, and their clinical applications for years but have not found time for more intensive meditation practice. Others would like the opportunity to refresh their practice with like-minded colleagues. By deliberately stepping out of everyday life and into an intensive retreat environment, we can observe subtle habit patterns of heart and mind and deepen our awareness. This retreat will explore the deep synergies among mindfulness, compassion, and depth psychotherapy. Mindfulness interventions have often been aimed at managing stress, reducing reactivity, and alleviating symptoms. But they also have more transformative potentials—to reveal how we create…
September 1 - 10, 2025
The point of mindfulness meditation is not simply to train the mind, but to engage the heart in all of its heart tones; lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In this nine-day retreat we will explore the heart quality of compassion. Compassion is often talked about as a quality of heart that “quivers” or trembles in the face of suffering. Yet it is perhaps more accurate to say that it is a whole-body attitude of heart-mind that opens to pain or disturbance and intentionally ministers to the suffering that is present. Bill and Susan Morgan along with their beloved colleague, friend…