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Cultivating Compassion Training

Land of Medicine Buddha
Wed Oct 17 6:30pm - 8:30pm every Wednesday Ages: 18+
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Venerable Tenzin

About Cultivating Compassion Training

8 Wednesdays, Sep 5 to Oct 24
Compassion Cultivation Training™ (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others—ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being. This course is designed to develop the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and for others by integrating traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion.

The Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) was developed at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and the Compassion Institute (CI) by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists and researchers.

Why Cultivate Compassion?
Cultivating compassion goes beyond feeling more empathy and concern for others. The program helps to develop skills in relating to ourselves and others with compassion. It strengthens our ability to choose thoughts, attitudes and perspectives that lead to positive changes in the way we respond to our own suffering and that of others. It develops the strength to be with suffering, the courage to take compassionate action, and the resilience to prevent compassion fatigue.

These qualities support a wide range of goals, from improving personal relationships to making a positive difference in the world. Compassion cultivation can also support one’s own health, happiness, and well-being. Preliminary research suggests that CCT and similar programs can increase self-compassion and self-care, reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, while also increasing compassion for oneself and for others.

This 8-week training includes:
2 hours per week of meditation instruction & practice, lectures, skill-building exercises and group discussions
Access to audio tracks to facilitate home-based practice
Suggestions for “on the go” compassion in action exercises to help integrate class material in daily life
Who Can Benefit from CCT:
Parents and caregivers
Activists
Educators
Mental health and healthcare professionals
Anyone interested in developing more compassion for themselves and others
Meditation practitioners who want to refresh, expand or deepen their practice
A commitment to attend each session is requested. While no previous meditation experience is required, we ask that participants practice a guided daily meditation as a key component of the training.

Class size: Limited to 20 participants – pre-registration is required

CCT Facilitator:
Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi is a Compassion Cultivation Facilitator in Training enrolled in the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) Teacher Certification Program at the Compassion Institute.

Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi first became interested in meditation and Buddhism after reading Be Here Now and early translations of Buddhist sutras in the early 1970s. Then in early 1991 she became a student of Tibetan Buddhism, studying in India and Nepal with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Venerable Tenzin was director of Vajrapani Institute, co-director the FPMT International Office, and coordinator of FPMT Center Services from 1992 to 2000. She also completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period.

Venerable Tenzin took novice ordination in 2004 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 2006 she became a touring teacher in the FPMT, teaching at various centers around the world, as well as visiting prisons on behalf of the Liberation Prison Project.

Venerable Tenzin is authorized by the FPMT to teach at both the foundational and in-depth levels, as well as teaching the a.r.t. of Fulfillment, Cultivating Emotional Balance (a secular program developed by Alan Wallace and Paul Ekman) and Compassion Cultivation Training, a program developed by Geshe Thubten Jinpa and colleagues at Stanford University. She will be relocating to Land of Medicine Buddha in August 2018.

Frequently Asked Questions
I want to register for a class but will need to miss a class or two. Is that okay?
It is strongly recommended that students attend all classes. If you plan on missing more than one class, it is advised to wait and register for a course at a time when you’ll likely be able to attend all sessions. If you’ve already registered and know you will miss a class in advance, please contact the instructor. Each class builds on the previous one, so missing a class can impact your ability to engage in exercises and activities and get the full benefit of the course.

How much meditation experience is required?
No previous meditation experience is required, although willingness to practice daily meditation is a key component of the training.
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