The Heart of Buddhist Meditation

Come quiet your mind and open your heart. Jack Kornfield, one of the most beloved and respected Buddhist meditation teachers in the West, together with Trudy Goodman and Shauna L. Shapiro, offers skillful practices to deepen your meditation or start your practice in this profound Buddhist meditation retreat, Jack Kornfield’s only East Coast retreat this year.

Through sitting and walking meditations, teachings and stories, practices of healing and awakening, deep conversation, silence, and trainings to nourish compassion, lovingkindness, and joy, we cultivate concentration and mindfulness. We integrate remarkable new findings from neuroscience and mindfulness research into our practice and develop a steady and compassionate meditation that can carry us through sorrow and beauty, hard times and good. Our practice together leads each of us to cultivate a wise heart for ourself and a world that awaits our compassion.

Upon completion of the training participants will be able to:

• Practice and employ five different forms of mindfulness training including the basic; four foundations of mindfulness
• Integrate Buddhist psychology's core principles of mental health and well being into other western approaches
• Be familiar with and employ the best practices from the current research on mindfulness and the practical effects of meditation on body and mind
• Employ several Buddhist psychological practices for transforming difficult emotions
• Utilize and incorporate compassion and forgiveness training in their professional work and personal life
• Gain new tools of Buddhist positive psychology and practice techiques to develop and cultivate positive states of mind
• Discover the underlying forces of short and long term intention and motivation how to shape and direct them as tools for change.

Both experienced and beginning meditators, therapists, and healers are invited to attend.

Faculty
Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India. He is a clinical psychologist, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, and founder of Spirit Rock Center in California. Kornfield is author of many books, including A Path With Heart. spiritrock.org

Trudy Goodman, PhD, founder of InsightLA, has trained extensively in meditation, psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. She is cofounder of the first Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in Los Angeles. insightla.org

Shauna L. Shapiro, PhD, is a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University. She has studied meditation in Thailand and Nepal, as well as in the West, and is coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness.