Finding a Soulful Bond: Building a Community of Love with Melissa Moore

Karuna Live! Finding a Soulful Bond: Building a Community of Love

Tuesday, May 6th, 6:00 - 7:00 PM MT 

Online - FREE. Donations are greatly appreciated.

Landing in a loving and supportive community feels essential, as many of us feel besieged by dramatic headlines and the monumental changes we are all experiencing. We need each other, and it feels incumbent on us to understand each other’s differing perspectives. We must also learn to lead with an open mind and a kind heart. These values are at the core of Karuna Training's teachings, which arise from Vajrayana Buddhism, an ancient recipe for opening our hearts. 

Karuna Training is dedicated to building strong bonds, openness, and safety in the community. We understand that our differences are more related to our conditioning and the beliefs we cling to about our sense of self. Identity is important, but we should also be open and aware that our differences are far less than our commonalities as human beings.  

This one-hour Karuna Live will introduce the basic tenents of Contemplative Psychology, such as Basic Sanity, loving-kindness, and compassionate exchange. We can quickly assess how habitual our perception of others has become, which affects our communication with them. We separate from others when we don’t investigate our patterns with heart and courage. We are the ones who suffer. 

Please join us for a one-hour exploration of how we create bonds with others and cultivate an open, loving, and safe community. 

What to expect:

• Short guided meditation practice
• Short talk on how Contemplative Psychology impacts relationships and building community
• An Experiential exercise with small room breakouts on Zoom

What you will learn:

• The Buddhist understanding of compassion and selflessness
• How much conditioning we bring to every interaction 
• A means to start fresh and meet others openly without bias

On Karuna Training 

In Karuna Training, we find strength in the intrinsic openness, wisdom, and compassion that is available to us as human beings. In the one-hour Karuna Live introductory session, we will have time to reflect and discuss how we can draw on our innate wisdom as a resource in an ongoing way. The program is open to everyone and will include guided meditation, an experience of the Karuna teachings, and a discussion of upcoming Karuna Training offerings.

The word Karuna means compassion in Sanskrit. Karuna Training brings together a community of people who trust the world’s wisdom to awaken our compassionate hearts. We can learn to resource ourselves and integrate our experiences to live a more empowered life. The world needs all of our compassion, health, and wisdom.

For 28 years, Karuna Training has offered time-tested mindfulness and compassion-based programs in Europe and North America.

A cohort is forming for the next Karuna Training program starting in late May 2025. Learn more about the Basic Training Program here.

Facilitator

Melissa Moore, Ph.D, has been a Lead faculty member and Karuna Training North America Executive Director since 2014. She co-founded Karuna Training in Germany in 1996. She has a Master's in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Psychological Anthropology. Melissa has trained and certified students in Contemplative Psychology for over thirty-five years in nine Countries. She has been a Buddhist practitioner for over 40 years and the author of The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology.