Grow and Sustain your Compassion Practice in Community
Are you interested in continuing to develop your compassion practice? Want to deepen your understanding of compassion? Curious about the spiritual roots of contemporary compassion teachings? Are you seeking community and support around integrating the habit of daily self-compassion and compassion for others into your life?
This 6-week online course is for alumni of the Mindful Self-Compassion program or the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program who are ready to explore compassion more deeply.
Developed and taught by Mindfulness Northwest Founder and Executive Director Tim Burnett.
Note: This course is different each time it is taught, as Tim explores a different theme and text related to the roots of mindfulness practice.
Class Theme: Living a Joyful Courageous Life
The theme for this class is living a joyful and courageous life, explored through Pema Chödrön‘s powerful book No Time to Lose, which is an exploration of Shantideva’s Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva.
This course will support you in:
- Setting intentions for your practice of mindfulness & compassion
- Incorporating formal and informal compassion practices in your daily routine
- Learning ways to relate to the doings of your emotional life in a more healthy way
- Exploring compassion and mindfulness in the context of how you relate with others
- Learning how compassion was traditionally understood in Buddhism and how to apply this ancient wisdom to our modern lives
- Going more deeply into the scientific support and exploration of compassion and its benefits
- Being in community with other committed practitioners of mindful compassion
In concert with exploring contemporary mindfulness teachings, we’ll orient our exploration around a traditional Buddhist text and touch upon the scientific support for the transformational possibilities of mindfulness practice. The emphasis will be both on developing deeper understanding, and on everyday life integration.
Each week expect:
- Hands-on mindfulness practices, exercises and meditations
- Discussion and exploration of how we’re incorporating mindful compassion into our lives
- A deep dive into topics ranging from Buddhist teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness to recent neuroscience
- Weekly home practice assignments, readings, handouts and videos to explore
- Connect with an accountability partner between classes to support your daily practice
SCHEDULE
Tuesdays, October 1 – November 12*, 2024
6:00 – 8:00pm PT
*Skip Week November 5
All-Day Retreat (Online):
Sunday, October 27, 9am – 4pm PT
TEACHER
LOCATION
Offered Live Online. Zoom link will be sent to you by email once you register.
COST
$320 – $485 (or $80 – $121/month)
- Sliding scale: Choose what’s right for you.
- Payment plan option: 4-months, no-interest.
- Scholarships available: No need to apply; just choose a scholarship tuition during registration.
Prerequisite
You must have completed either the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course or the 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion course (with any teacher or school).
Classes like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or Mindful Self-Compassion are powerful partly because of the strong learning communities that come together over those two months. We learn as much from each other in class as we do from the teacher and the curriculum. Our Going Deeper classes continue and extend that supportive community. We come together to keep learning with and from each other, and to support each other in living in deep conversation with mindfulness practice.
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