Meet Michael
Michael Hoffner runs the Adelphi University Mindfulness Center and Interfaith Center. He received his masters in social work from Fordham University. Michael is a retreat leader, counselor, spiritual teacher and mentor. He was the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Community Growth Center. Michael weaves together his wisdom as a contemplative Christian and practitioner of Engaged Buddhism and Mindfulness and his personal experience with nearly two decades in recovery from addiction to help guide people in healing, growth and transformation. The focus of his work centers on peace and healing, community, and belonging. Michael is a member of the Plum Village Order of Interbeing. He lives on Long Island, NY.
Peace and Healing
Helping people cultivate inner peace and healing and become peacemakers in the world.
Justice
Engaging in works to help establish a more just and loving world.
Belonging
Help create the Beloved Community in which love, understanding, togetherness & wellbeing are available to all.
CLARITY
1-on-1 Counseling Sessions
Integrating spirituality into our mental health and wellness is an essential component to our healing and transformation.
Through the context of your lived experience and current struggles, we will integrate creative and ancient meditation and prayer practices and psychotherapy into a wholistic approach that tends to your mind, body and spirit.
As students on this path together, my hope is that our time together will help you tap into your intrinsic creativity and courage and gain new insights into who you are and where you are being called.
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Coming January 19th, 2027
Peace Be With You: The Path of Wholeness, Healing, and Belonging―Inspired by the Prayer of Saint Teresa of Avila
Christian- Buddhist Guide to Cultivating a Peaceful Heart and World
This examination of the famous prayer of St. Teresa of Avila shows it to be a path for cultivating a peaceful heart for people of all faiths and backgrounds. Author Michael Hoffner writes with an interspiritual approach with the perspective of a Christian and follower of Jesus who is also a practitioner in the Buddhist Plum Village tradition and student of Thich Nhat Hanh. With nearly two decades of recovery from addiction, Hoffner also shares his personal story of healing and transformation. In times such as these the need to commit ourselves to deep and lasting peace (personally and collectively) is our only hope. We can no longer think of world peace and inner peace as two separate paths.
