{"id":1860,"date":"2025-08-15T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:57:25","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our new board member!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0691-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1861 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0691-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0691-1-300x259.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0691-1-348x300.jpeg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>VMS is pleased to introduce Claire Grant as the newest addition to the board of the Victoria Multifaith Society, in the Buddhist seat. Claire started practicing mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh in 2010 while living in France, and has been practicing and facilitating as Bell Master with the Victoria Mindfulness Community since 2012. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Claire was ordained a member of the Order of Interbeing in 2017 and was given the dharma name\u00a0<em>Ch\u00e2n \u0110<\/em><em>\u1ee9<\/em><em>c Dung<\/em>\u00a0meaning True Virtue of Inclusiveness. \u00a0She has attended many mindfulness retreats in Plum Village, France and has supported her local mindfulness community with retreats and Days of Mindfulness. Claire lives in Victoria with her partner Stephane and has two adult children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMS is pleased to introduce Claire Grant as the newest addition to the board of the Victoria Multifaith Society, in the Buddhist seat. Claire started practicing mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh in 2010 while living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}