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Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT)

Learn to teach the wisdom of mindfulness, the artful care of compassion, and the science of well-being.

Much more than meditation teacher training, this comprehensive 5-month cross-training in stress reduction, resilience and self-healing gives participants the knowledge, experience and confidence to teach mindfulness meditation, compassion meditation, and embodied practices along with clear instruction in the science of well-being.

What You’ll Learn...

• Learn to explain and guide eight progressive practices of mindfulness and compassion, along with a series of coordinated breath and posture practices that help the autonomic nervous system support the process of contemplative stress-reduction, self-healing and building resilience

• Learn to define and explain in clear, simple terms: the nature of stress and the four phase cycle of stress and trauma; mindfulness and its four scopes of practice; compassion and its four practices and levels; resilience along with its four progressive states and traits

• Learn to explain how current neuropsychology shows the power of contemplative methods to turn the self-enclosed processing of stress and trauma into the prosocial processing that fuels open engagement and resilience at all levels of mind and brain.

• Learn how to transform a contemplative skills learning group into an emotionally open and caring community that can spark and sustain the growth of each participant towards greater well-being, engagement, and purpose

• Learn how to integrate contemplative practice into your life and work to deliver Compassion-Based Resilience Training—CBRT—to groups large and small, whether in healthcare, education, business, or community service settings

Dates
Level 1 starts late spring/early summer 2024
Level 2 starts in December 2024

Time: Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00pm ET  /  3:30 – 5:00pm PT

Where: Live online via Zoom

Embodied Psychotherapy Program (EPP)

The Embodied Psychotherapy Program offers a grounding in Tibetan transformational psychology and in-depth training in the practice of artful mentoring, healing visualization, subtle body energy work, and intuitive wisdom including Tantric Guru Yoga, Tummo and Nejang practices. These practices are integrated with current neuropsychology, psychotherapy and psychosocial transformation to bring a rigorous, nuanced, and multi-dimensional approach to embodied individual and collective change.

The Embodied Psychotherapy program compares, contrasts, and integrates embodied contemplative psychology and practice with contemporary western psychotherapy modalities including self-psychology, depth-psychology, hypnotherapy, sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, gestalt, AEDP and other transformational and trauma therapies. Areas of study include:

• The historical and theoretical foundations of embodied contemplative psychotherapy

• The sociocultural history of the Buddhist Tantras

• Understanding the neuropsychology and ecopsychology of the subtle body-mind

• Developing the readiness to engage in the unexcelled yoga tantras through cultivating basic self-care, compassion and radical open-mindedness

• Understanding and practicing the 4 stages of mentor-bonding/guru-archetype yoga

• Engaging in the practice of mentor bonding as a way to undo internalized oppression and heal intergenerational trauma

• Working with imagery, breath-work, posture and transformational flow states to transform traumatic core affects and autonomic energies

• Developing trauma-free lucid intuition, dreamlike prosocial embodiment and a compassionate way of life

• Meditation practicum: instruction with core faculty

The next EPP starts in the fall of 2024.