February 12, 26, March 12, 26, April 9, and 23.
Six Saturday Mornings: 9 - 10:30 PT/ 10 - 11:30 MT/ 11 - 12:30 CT/ 12 - 1:30 ET
Limited capacity - up to 15 participants
Grief is a portal to the potency of the heart, and community is necessary to reap the benefits of opening our hearts together.
This 90-minute group, facilitated by Kathryn Larsson and Melissa Moore, will provide a guided meditation practice, ritual contemplations, and experiential speaking from the heart work around the topics in life we all collectively grieve.
This is a community space to practice compassion on the Five Gates of Grief, as presented by Francis Weller in The Wild Edge of Sorrow. This community space will be a closed group only open to those who register. Please join us for an hour and a half of touching hearts and community resourcing.
Limited sliding scale opportunities available, please email Mairead to inquire further karuna.assist@gmail.com
Kathryn Larsson, MSW has had a private practice in Seattle, Washington. With over 40 years of experience, she has helped children, individuals, couples, and families. She has developed mastery in guiding ritual space that opens to the unknown great mystery.
Kathryn believes that—through the practices of meditation and mindfulness—we can develop a set of life skills that support us to relate to those around us with greater wisdom and compassion. As a graduate of the Karuna Training program, Kathryn has learned to listen and speak from her heart. In addition, she has developed compassionate exchange as a method of meeting us amid our sorrows.
Melissa Moore Ph.D. has been the steward of Karuna Training North American since 2014 and a co-founder of Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. Melissa has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and five states in the U.S. She is the author of the newly published book, The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology:
https://thediamondswithinus.org.
