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2019-11-20 Government

Feds Hosted Meditation, Massage And Social Justice Retreat For 450 Employees, Including IRS Workers

[Daily Caller] The federal government hosted a "Mindfulness & Resiliency Summit" in August where 450 employees from the IRS and other agencies spent two days receiving new-age wisdom, learning to meditate, and receiving on-site massages, photos of the event and a website show.

Participants sat through an hour of talks before taking a half-hour "stretch and self-care break." Next, they heard a 90-minute talk from Gretchen Rohr, an activist working for George Soros’s Open Society Foundations who presented about "restorative justice" and overcoming "trauma," according to a schedule obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Then they adjourned for a two-hour lunch and returned for two hours of advice from Ashanti Branch, who teaches "young men of color" to "hold safe space." He presented a bizarrely capitalized Powerpoint that included lines such as "the Longest distance most people Travel is the 18-inches between their head and their heart," a photo shows.

They let out at 4 p.m. to rest up for the next day, the schedule shows.

"The Mindfuless & Resiliency Summit will gather 450 federal employees from various departments (Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, IRS, Department of Justice, and more) to engage, learn, and practice mindfulness and wellness tools," the summit’s website states.

"The USDA Forest Service is cohosting with Wisdom 2.0 the 2-day summit, held in the Jefferson Auditorium on August 6-7, 2019," it continues. Jefferson Auditorium is in the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) headquarters, and the Forest Service is part of USDA.

The two-day summit took up a combined 7,200 hours of federal employees’ time.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 All the animals are equal. But some are more equal than the others.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-20 04:56|| 2019-11-20 04:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, this helps to explain why the IRS stopped showing up to year-end tax seminars some years ago; they're doing this bullshit instead.

Posted by Raj 2019-11-20 06:48|| 2019-11-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Wasn't it just a couple years ago some IRS guy got sacked after a picture emerged of him enjoying a glass of wine in a spa tub somewhere?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-20 14:52|| 2019-11-20 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 GSA drone. Not quite as do as you please as the IRS, but the principle applies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-20 15:16|| 2019-11-20 15:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Venue not too far from UC Santa Cruz, home to the 'Fighting Banana Slugs'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-11-20 15:18|| 2019-11-20 15:18|| Front Page Top

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