with Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal
Saturday, March 30, 2024
10:00am – 3:00pm, via Zoom or In-Person
In this mini-retreat Geshela offers four sessions that includes teaching, visualization practice and meditation with breaks between them.
A simple lunch will be provided.
Registration Required or by calling 502-614-5616. Cost on a Sliding Scale: $40, $50 or $60.
Please email us at DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com for a scholarship if needed.
8 Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:00pm, April 4 - May 23, 2024, In-Person at DGCEC
Transformative. Rewired. Renewed joy in life and relationships. Skills for well-being.
CCT is a unique and compelling 8-week process that helps you develop your qualities of compassion, empathy, and loving-kindness. Learn skills for expanding your care for others while building resilience, increasing self-compassion, as well as developing your strength to be with life’s suffering and taking compassionate action.
Each 2-hour session explores training your mind and developing skills for relating to yourself and others by intentionally choosing compassionate thoughts and actions. Enjoy input, in-class exercises, and daily meditation practices to develop these skills, as well as “real-world home practices”.
Find out how CCT’s tools support your own health, happiness, and well-being. CCT was developed by Thupten Jinpa, the principal English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at Stanford University with a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers. Over 300 Louisville CCTers, and thousands around the world attest to its transformative qualities.
What recent students are saying:"Learning compassion is not just for others. This course teaches you the value of self-compassion. It rivals most traditional Western therapy in its value and usefulness!"
"I find that I am more tolerant and less judging of others' actions."
“The enhanced viewpoint taught in CCT results in a deepening of contentment within. The petty frustrations that easily arise out of judgment and blame can just as quickly be released when using the mental reframing tools taught in CCT.”
PLEASE NOTE: CCT involves a recommended daily guided meditation. A commitment to practicing between classes and attending all 8 sessions is strongly recommended to gain the full benefits of the process.
Priced according to your ability: $150, $265, $370. Those able to pay more help make assistance available to others. Register: 502-614-5616 or at DrepungGomangUSA.org. Some partial scholarships are available.
Seeking to be a bridge-builder between cultures, religious traditions and communities, Anne Walter has served in interfaith, social justice and peace-focused ministry for over 30 years. As a student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, she was honored to serve as the Chair of Engaging Compassion, His Holiness’ multi-day visit to Louisville in 2013. Anne is the Director of Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion, providing compassion education as a Dharma Center and as an inclusive Compassion Education Center. She is a Certified Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training (2017 Teacher Cohort) of Compassion InstituteTM and Stanford University.
with Jenny Bell
4 Tuesdays, April 9 - 30, 6:00 - 7:30pm, In-Person
Meditation not only generates healthy mental, physical and emotional benefits, but lowers stress, boosts immunity and creativity, offers a greater sense of well-being and ultimately brings peace of mind, body and heart.
Curious about establishing a daily meditation practice but don't know where to begin? Join Jenny for this four week class and learn the core foundations of How To Meditate. Learn basic meditation techniques, meditation instruction, posture, non doing, non judging, concentration, developing awareness, going within, and the science behind establishing a habit of daily meditation. Explore both informal and formal mindfulness practices, including a multitude of different approaches such as breath focused meditation, mindfulness meditation, mantra based meditation, walking meditation, and various forms of formal sitting practice.
Come develop a mind like sky! Create a refuge for yourself and discover that the heart of practice is making friends with yourself.
Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able: $80, $95 or $110. Register HERE or call 502-614-5616. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.
Jenny Bell is a poet, aspiring heart healer and earth artist. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness instructor offering classes and retreats throughout our community. Her offerings are born where spirituality + creativity intersect. She is a compassionist by heart ~ a stone mason by trade. Most days you will find her in the wilderness creating nature mandalas.
Sacred Creative Session
Friday, April 12, 9:00 - 11:30am, In-Person
Using organic wildcrafted nature bits, flower petals, twigs, foliage, stones, pinecones and more, you will explore the delicate intricacies of creating a Nature Mandala. With Jenny's guidance you will make several ephemeral assemblages as part of a moving meditation, soothing the mind while working with the hands, softening into a space of artistic freedom, expression + flow. Empty of expectation, free from attachments to the outcome, this Sacred Creative Session will invite your inner child to come out and play. It will be interspersed with periods of self compassion meditation as well as discussions on Impermanence, as you will also practice the disassembling of what you create.
Register and see how this opportunity balances Creativity + Self Expression with Mindfulness + Self Compassion, while also embodying Impermanence + Interdependence.
Cost on a sliding scale – please pay what you are able: $33, $44 or $55. Register HERE or call 502-614-5616. Some partial scholarships available: DrepungGomangCompassion@gmail.com.
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