Building Balanced Empathy
(Lunch Included)
A course designed to explore empathy, vulnerability and
emotional resilience.
In this daylong class we will examine what causes you to feel emotionally overwhelmed and conversely what leads you to
emotionally disconnect from others.
We explore whether we genuinely feel and understand the experiences and emotions of other people.
You will learn techniques empowering you to relate to others in a healthy, more balanced way.
“I learned I have a lot of misplaced or misguided empathy. I realize how much of a communication issue it is not
necessarily an issue with feeling. I realized just how deep my need to fix everything goes, especially with role playing”
– Linda Melisano, course participant, Florida, May 2019
With our varied learning materials and fun interactive exercises, you will learn how to empathize from your
heart and from your head. We explore how to genuinely feel and understand the experiences and emotions
of other people, allowing for more compassion towards oneself and others.
You will be able to integrate these techniques afterwards using a series of audio meditations available from
our website.
This course will help you to develop:
- a calmer more focused mind
- better self-understanding and therefore real empathy for others
- identifying what pushes us out of balance allowing the space for wiser choices
- stronger emotional resilience
- closer, more nurturing relationships with family, friends and co-workers
- more compassion for ourselves and others
About the Instructor
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, and then in early 1991 she became a student of Tibetan Buddhism. From 1992 to 2000, Venerable Tenzin was director of Vajrapani Institute, co-director the FPMT International Office, and coordinator of FPMT Center Services. 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, and began teaching in 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, and is also a teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance (a secular program developed by Alan Wallace and Paul Ekman). She is a certified teacher with Compassion Cultivation Training, a program developed by Geshe Thubten Jinpa and colleagues at Stanford University. Venerable Tenzin joined the faculty at Land of Medicine Buddha in August 2018.
| Date(s): | 10 am to 5:30 pm, Sunday, Oct. 20th |
| Times: | 10:00 am - 5:30 pm |
| Instructor/Leader: | Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi |
| Type of event: | |
| Number of sessions: | Daylong |
| Level: | Introductory-open to all |
| Participation: | Daylong |
| Location: | Main Gompa |
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