Workshops

(1 or more days)

FOSTERING CLARITY CONNECTION & COMPASSION

(3 Saturdays, 3 weeks apart)

Humans have a natural capacity for compassion. Work stress, social pressures, and everyday life challenges often make it difficult to maintain and fully express this capacity. Yet it’s possible for each of us to nurture and grow our compassionate instinct. Science is showing that a compassionate attitude can greatly reduce distress people experience in difficult home or work situations, and be a profound personal resource in times of struggle, anxiety, depression, or grief.

The course combines the latest neuroscience and clinical psychology with small group exercises and contemplative practice. Goals include increasing mindfulness and feelings of connection to others, reducing worry while enhancing happiness, improving emotional regulation and resilience, and significantly expanding the ability to extend and receive compassion, including self-compassion. It is designed for anyone who wishes to cultivate compassion, personally and/or professionally, for themselves and for others. Includes parents and caregivers, educators, healthcare professionals and therapists, business leaders and staff, public service managers and employees, and all individuals seeking to build on a practice of awareness and mindfulness.

Class 1 (full day) – Explore the science and practice of breath control, as well as calming, clearing, and settling the mind. Begin cultivating compassion through focus on a loved one, moving into the challenge of connection, compassion, and loving-kindness for yourself. Practice Class 1 concepts for the following three weeks.

Class 2 (full day) – Broaden your capacity for connection and compassion to include strangers, difficult people, common humanity, and all beings everywhere. Training culminates with advanced active compassion breathing and meditation techniques. Practice Class 2 concepts for the following three weeks.

Class 3 (half day) – Final session with instructor and classmates to review, troubleshoot, summarize, and integrate all elements of earlier teachings to foster clarity, connection and compassion.

Fee: $______

CULTIVATING THE WILL TO CHANGE: Science and practice of motivation and self-control

(2 Days)

Change is always possible but rarely easy. Humans come into the world wired for motivation and self-control, yet we often don’t exercise those abilities skillfully. Bring a personal challenge to the workshop. Bad habit you’d like to break? Good habit you want to establish? A project or dream you’d love to finally get off the ground? Tackle your challenge with tools drawn from current neuroscience and clinical psychology, small group exercises, and contemplative practice. Cultivating and harnessing your own willpower instinct can guide you to make better choices, overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals.

Fee: $______

CULTIVATING COMPOSURE & RESILIENCE: Science and practice of regulating stress

(2 Days)

Contrary to popular belief, stress doesn’t always make you sick and it doesn’t have to be harmful. Recent research shows stress can make you smarter, stronger and more successful. It can help you learn and grow. It can even inspire courage and compassion. When you rethink your attitude about and approach to stress, you create a different biological reality in your mind and body. In this workshop gain tools and skills drawn from neuroscience and clinical psychology, small group exercises, and contemplative practice. By cultivating composure and resilience, you become good at stress rather than a casualty of it.

Fee: $______

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Workshops on:

DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS

ESSENTIALS OF TEAMWORK

INTENTION, AFFIRMATION, ASPIRATION

GROWTH MINDSET: FAILING FORWARD

TOLERANCE