Events

Join contemplative psychotherapy pioneer Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, and Pilar Jennings, PhD, along with meditation master Robert Thurman, PhD for the Nalanda Institute Contemplative Psychotherapy Program: The Compassion Year, a historic program offering an intensive step-by-step learning experience integrating Buddhist psychology and meditation, with the most promising breakthroughs in contemporary neuroscience, health psychology, and psychotherapy.

Location: San Francisco Zen Center

Date: February 22-23, 2020

Click here to view or download a flyer about the program or for more information about the program, visit nalandainstitute.org/cpp-sf

Location: 150 Lake Drive, Rhinebeck, NY 12572

In the great healing traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and psychotherapy, there is a powerful appreciation for the wish to feel well, recover from all forms of suffering, and live a full and peaceful life. Join the venerable Khenpo Pema Wangdak, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and founding teacher of the Vikramasila Foundation, and Pilar Jennings, a psychoanalyst and author of To Heal a Wounded Heart, to explore a roadmap for healing in the Bodhisattva’s Way.

Together we learn about sacred Buddhist teachings and how to apply them to spiritual and psychological healing. Through meditation, discussions, and guided exercises, we discover methods for increasing self-compassion, addressing trauma, and releasing beliefs that limit happiness and meaningful connection with others.

This retreat is open to beginning and experienced meditators, as well as clinicians who want to apply the healing arts of Buddhist spirituality in clinical work.

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Weekend Retreat at Garrison Institute with Paul Cooper from June 21-23, 2019
“Actualizing a Realizational Practice: Buddhist Meditation and Psychoanalysis”

Meditation functions as the core practice and foundational teaching of the major Buddhist traditions. This offering will be an opportunity for participants to practice meditation intensely in a retreat framed in the holding environment provided by the Soto Zen meditation tradition. Experience with Buddhist meditation practice is not necessary. People from all backgrounds – experienced or with little or no experience- are welcome.

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Community Meditation Center Dharma Talks – Sunday April 28 and May 19 at 10:30am

Union Theological Seminary
Tuesday evenings, January 29 – May 6, 2019 from 5pm – 7:50pm
3041 Broadway, at 121st Street, NYC
For registration contact Nicole Mirando at nmirando@uts.columbia.edu

I’m looking forward to exploring Buddhist perspectives on trauma and healing at the May 15 Social Work and Religious Diversity conference — hope you can attend. The conference is sponsored by the Interfaith Center of New York, the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute, and the Jewish Board. It will help participants offer trauma-sensitive care to religiously diverse clients. You don’t need to be a social worker to attend, but the conference offers 7 continuing education credit hours for New York LMSWs and LCSWs. For detailed information, online registra­tion, and free resources for social workers, please click here to download information or visit http://interfaithcenter.org/social-work.

Sundays 1:30pm – 3pm
Monthly meditation and Dharma talk. Open to all.

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April 7 – Integration and Progress: Learning to Live with Well-being (Forrest Church Gallery)
May 5 – Progress as Perfection: Avoiding Missteps (Forrest Church Gallery)
June 9 – The Commitments of Mind Training (Forrest Church Gallery)
July 7 – The Guidelines for Lojong (Forrest Church Gallery)

Location: 1157 Lexington Avenue, between 79th and 80th Street, NYC.