by Melissa Moore, Ph.D. As the universe darkens and the sun sinks earlier each evening, we enter the season that invites an intimate relationship with darkness, solitude, and silence. Many […]
The many ways to participate in the Karuna Community:
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We welcome newcomers to attend an upcoming event or join a course for an in-depth exploration of contemplative psychology.
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Attend Free Online Training
We offer free Karuna Lives to introduce the fundamentals... Our one-hour Karuna Live events allow you to familiarize yourself with our faculty and our approach to the work.
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Attend a Deep in-person Retreat
Karuna Training now offers its core curriculum in four in-person retreats, three without prerequisites. After completing all four retreats, a 250-hour certification is possible by completing a 25-hour project. We also offer free-standing in-person Maitri Space Awareness retreats with no prerequisites.
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Graduate Training is about Manifesting Compassion in the World
Once the foundational certification is accomplished, we offer further training to graduates to learn to facilitate contemplative methods and experiential groups and integrate Contemplative Psychology methods into everyday life and livelihood.
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What is Compassion without Radical Honesty
By Melissa Moore Radical honesty is not simply about telling the truth in a blunt or moralistic sense. It’s a deep alignment between our inner experience and our outer expression, […]
Discovering the Elements Through Sacred Ritual
by Melissa Moore For over four decades, I’ve contemplated what it truly means to commune with the sacred elements—not just as an educator, but as someone yearning for direct, authentic […]
Building Intensity Capacity
Below is an excerpt from The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology by Melissa Moore. This chapter, "Building Intensity Capacity", introduces concepts we'll explore in the upcoming […]
Buddhist psychology is based on the notion that human beings are fundamentally good. Their most basic qualities are positive ones: openness, intelligence, and warmth.
From: The Sanity we are Born With by Chögyam Trungpa
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