Compassion Cultivation Training One-Day Intensive
Refunds are available only for bookings made prior to January 31st, 2020. To be eligible, cancellations must be received in writing by January 31st 2020. Please note: a $25 administration fee will be charged for each cancellation.
Location: Gyuto Foundation, 6401 Bernhard Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
Our one-day Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™) intensive will be led by renowned compassion educators, Dr Thupten Jinpa, the principal translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama and the main author of CCT, and Margaret Cullen, licensed psychotherapist, and Compassion Institute Founding Faculty.
We hope you will join us in this rare opportunity to work directly with Dr. Jinpa and Margaret Cullen, to learn more about your fearless heart, and how compassion offers us all a way to strengthen our innate and relational resources, broaden and shift our perspective, and metabolize the challenges of life, big and small. By connecting with our compassionate nature, we can cultivate habits and an outlook that is more empowering, and respond to challenges with greater skilfulness and wisdom.
This day-long intensive workshop condenses key components of the Compassion Institute’s flagship 8-week Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT™) into a one-day format.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is relevant to everyone working with people, and who are curious about how cultivating compassion can help navigate the suffering of others and yourself. During the workshop, you will be introduced to several aspects of compassion, and practices that can help to bring compassion alive in everyday life.
Topics and Skills We Will Cover:
- Compassion: What It Is, and Why and How We Go About Cultivating It.
- The Importance of Intention.
- Mindfulness.
- Loving Kindness and Compassion for a Loved One.
- Self-Compassion and Self-Appreciation.
- Expanding Our Circle of Compassion to Others.
- Making Compassion an Active Force in Everyday Life.
Thupten Jinpa
Margaret Cullen
Margaret Cullen is a licensed psychotherapist and was one of the first ten people to become a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher. For over 20 years, she has pioneered secular contemplative programs for a wide variety of populations including physicians, nurses, HIV positive men, cancer patients, overweight women, military spouses college students, clinicians and educators.
She has developed and taught contemplative interventions for research studies at Stanford, UCSF, Portland State, Penn State, University of Michigan, and University of Miami. In 2013, she developed a mindfulness and compassion program (MBAT – Spouse) for military spouses that she piloted at Ft. Drum, Maxwell Air Force Base, and Joint Operations Special Command. In 2015, she co-authored a book on Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance (MBEB), an evidence-based program that she piloted across the US and Canada. She has also designed and co-delivered teacher trainings for both MBAT-Spouse and MBEB.
As a clinician, Margaret has been a facilitator of support groups for cancer patients and their loved ones for 25 years. In 2010, she was invited by Thupten Jinpa to contribute to the development of the Compassion Cultivation Training, first through the Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research and Education at the Stanford School of Medicine and currently as Founding Faculty for the Compassion Institute. A meditator for over 35 years, she has sat dozens of intensive retreats ranging from ten days to three months and has written extensively on mindfulness. Nothing brings her greater joy than contributing to a more compassionate world.
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training™ (CCT©), the Institute’s flagship compassion education offering, developed while Jinpa was at Stanford University.
Jinpa trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University, South India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. Jinpa also holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University.
Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 1985, and has translated and collaborated on numerous books by the Dalai Lama including the New York Times Bestsellers Ethics for the New Millennium and The Art of Happiness, as well as Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World. His own publications include A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives and translations of major Tibetan works featured in The Library of Tibetan Classics series.
A frequent speaker at various international conferences on mindfulness, compassion, and contemplative practice, Jinpa also serves as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal and is the founder and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He has been a core member of the Mind and Life Institute and its Chairman of the Board since January 2012.