Cultivating Compassion

When:
@ 4:00 am – 5:45 am America/Denver Timezone
2017-03-16T04:00:00-06:00
2017-03-16T05:45:00-06:00
Where:
Bozeman Dharma Center
1019 E Main St #202
Bozeman, MT 59715
USA

Cultivating Compassion

4 Thursday Mornings:
March 16, 23, 30 and April 6 

 10:00 – 11:45 am

led by Suzanne Colón

This course will focus on the cultivation of self-compassion as the practice which opens our hearts to ourselves and to the world.  Compassion is the natural extension of the tender heart when it meets suffering.  Kindness, or Metta, becomes compassion when it meets pain, difficulty or loss and carries the intention to care for and alleviate the suffering.

We are often unkind to ourselves when we are in pain and most need our own support and nurture. Our culture teaches us to tighten up and turn away from pain, our own and others’.  But with gentle practice and curious exploration, we can learn to compassionately open to life’s inevitable difficulties and pains, reducing our suffering, inviting healing and building emotional resilience.

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Logistics:

Prior sign up is preferred so that we can gauge the numbers in attendance and have materials prepared.  There is a sign-up sheet at the Dharma Center or you may email  info@BozemanDharmaCenter.org to let us know you are planning to attend.

Some prior meditation experience is recommended, but not required.
Offered for an optional, suggested donation per session:
Base rate: $10-15; Students/supportive rate: $5; Benefactor rate: $15-20

The Dharma Center runs on your generosity; please consider giving what feels right to you.
If your circumstances do not allow you to make a contribution,
please enjoy the class free of charge with our blessings.

About this class

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This class will include guided meditations, journal exercises and self-inquiry.  Teachings and meditations will drawn from the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Abodes: Kindness, Compassion, Resonant Joy and Equanimity, and the work of Sharon Salzburg, Tara Brach and Bruce Tift. Journal exercises and inquiry are drawn from the work of self-compassion experts Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer, whose books and websites are highly recommended.

Please bring a journal.

 About the Teacher

Suzanne has been meditating in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition since 1992 and has been a member of the Bozeman Insight Community since moving here in 1998. She completed the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ Integrated Study and Practice Program in 2014 and is currently in Sprit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader training program. She has also spent 12 years exploring modalities of western psychology (as a lay person) and how the tools of meditation can be used in psychological and emotional healing. She completed Drs. Neff and Germer’s Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Course Teacher training in 2016 and offers it in the Bozeman area with Dr. John Christopher.

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Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.

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