The Gifts of Buddhist & Western Psychology, with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield & Mark Epstein
By Editor | Aug 3 2011
Join IMCW and Omega for a weekend with these 3 noted Buddhist teachers and psychologists, as they explore how Western psychology and Eastern Buddhist psychology have become partners in one of the greatest of human quests—the exploration, understanding, healing, and awakening of the human heart and mind.
On Friday, September 16, there will be three individual talks given by Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, and Mark Epstein, and then in a group question-and-answer session discussing Eastern Buddhist psychology and Western psychology—how they differ and how they are similar and how one can inform the other to awaken our unlimited capacities for happiness.
On September 17, Tara and Jack will continue with "Awakening, Healing & Illumination: The Dance of Buddhist & Western Psychotherapy," a daylong delving deeper into the material covered during the previous evening's presentations. Together with their audience, they will mine the rich tradition of Buddhist insight meditation and modern revolutionary research in mindfulness and neurobiology to explore how Western psychology is substantiating and expanding upon this 2,500 year-old wisdom tradition. Through meditation practices, lectures, case studies, stories of transformation, and discussion, they will explore:
- Buddhist psychology's core principles of mental health and well-being
- How to incorporate compassion and forgiveness into our work and life
- How meditation and psychotherapy can collaborate
- Practices for transforming difficult emotions at their root
- Research demonstrating the practical effects of meditation to benefit body and mind
- The wisdom of positive psychology and the cultivation of positive states of mind
- How intention and motivation are essential tools for change
- The uses of medication and meditation
- Practices of mindfulness and lovingkindness
The Gifts of Buddhist & Western Psychology from Tara Brach on Vimeo.
Tickets for each day must be purchased separately. Register online here.
Co-sponsored by the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.