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Cultivating Mindful Compassion
An effective, practical, interactive program offering tools and techniques to help you cultivate acceptance and compassion for self and others.
What Is Cultivating Mindful Compassion?
?Discovering, exploring, and growing (cultivating)
?Present moment awareness and choosing to live our lives intentionally every day (mindful)
?Extending our innate kindness toward, appreciation of, and concern for self and others (compassion)
Over the past ten years, researchers have studied and validated the benefits of mindfulness, and current research now highlights the scientific benefits of compassion meditation as well.
Ready to cultivate YOUR mindful compassion?
1-Day Workshop
Join us for this one-day workshop online via Zoom! Throughout the day we’ll learn various aspects of compassion for self and others.
You’ll also have an opportunity to integrate the power of essential oils! Each oil is specifically selected to support the emotional transformation as you work with each component of the program. After you register, oils will be sent to you.
Dates & Times:
- Check Back for Upcoming Dates
The workshop will be recorded, and you can review it until two weeks after the workshop dates. If you’d like to learn but can’t make the live session, register, and you’ll be sent a copy after the workshop is over.
Investment $149
7-Week Program
Join us for this seven-week program online via Zoom! Each week we’ll learn various aspects of compassion for self and others.
You’ll also have an opportunity to integrate the power of essential oils! Each oil is specifically selected to support the emotional transformation as you work with each component of the program. After you register, oils will be sent to you.
Dates & Times:
- Check Back for Upcoming Dates
Sessions will be recorded, and you can review them until two weeks after the last class date. If you miss a session, you’ll have a chance to catch up before the following week.
Investment $149
Or, join me on an international spiritual tour, and we’ll practice the series daily in beautiful and inspiring landscapes.
Compassion arises from an awareness of distress in self or others, an emotional resonance with that distress, and a desire to take action to help alleviate the distress.
At one time or another, we all face difficult and/or stressful situations. We all suffer in some way. Everyday stress, social pressures, and life experiences may make it difficult to fully express compassion. However, humans have a natural capacity for loving-kindness and compassion.
Embracing then moving beyond mindfulness, the benefits of compassion meditation are profound.
Through cultivating compassion, you will find contentment and a sense of joy that radiates outward to your loved ones, friends, and even co-workers.
A compassionate and accepting attitude toward self and others noticeably reduces distress in difficult times and builds a strong foundation of resilience.
Being willing to appreciate fully and embrace who you are right now at this moment is critical to your wellbeing. This sense of self-appreciation and self-compassion allows you to be present with and available for others sustainably.
This program combines the essence of mindfulness and compassion with an awareness of our internal energy (qi).
We explore methods for intentionally choosing and deepening self-acceptance, self-appreciation, and compassion for self and others.
Through instruction, discussion, and the use of practical techniques, we explore ways to cultivate a vibrant, authentic, and positive life. This, in turn, allows us to better relate to ourselves and others.
Drawing from Taoist and Buddhist philosophy with contemporary psychology and research, this curriculum blends my 25+ year Taoist meditation practice with Stanford University’s Compassion Cultivation Training.
What You’ll Learn During the Cultivating Mindful Compassion Program:
CMC’s tools and techniques help you:
- Compassionately engage your inner-critic by embracing acceptance for self and others
- Enhance vitality by recognizing and harmonizing with your body’s natural energy flow
- Strengthen your ability to be present and resilient in the face of difficulty, responding rather than reacting
- Reduce rumination by settling your mind, expanding awareness of the current moment, and cultivating positive thoughts
- Integrate mindfulness and self-compassion practices into everyday life
- Harmonize your senses and emotions through the use of specific essential oils
Resulting benefits include:
- Reducing criticism and judgment for self and others through enhanced acceptance and mindful compassion
- Releasing mental or emotional blocks by moving toward peace, resilience, and creativity while dissolving anxiety and depression
- Increasing your capacity to authentically engage, communicate, and collaborate in relationships, both at home and at work
- Reinforcing your self-awareness, your ability to stay present, and the strength to make appropriate choices when feeling overwhelmed
- Augmenting your job satisfaction and fulfillment and living a more peaceful, nurturing life at home or with family
Course format:
- Instruction of meditation techniques including seated meditation, guided meditation, mudra meditation, qigong, moving meditation
- Guided meditation audio tracks for daily use which help develop kindness, empathy, acceptance, and compassion
- Real-world informal practices to help you maintain daily compassionate thoughts and actions
Cultivating Mindful Compassion is appropriate for those who are learning meditation for the first time, or wish to continue to develop their skills.
If you’re ready to release anxiety, shift out of a place where your inner-critic manages your life, or put down your invisible backpack of self-recrimination, join me for a one-day or multi-week program. I’ll help you become more comfortable with all aspects of yourself, learn how to embrace and work with your inner-critic, and stand up and shine, knowing you are enough and are perhaps stronger and more capable than you ever imagined.
If you still have questions, feel free to email me at amy@amypatteecolvin.com to set up a time to chat.
Note: The dates of Cultivating Mindful Compassion one-day workshops correspond to the weekend dates of Yi Jing Jing so you can take both workshops in one weekend if you wish.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me these tools and helping me have the courage to show my light and to grateful and kind. I’m amazed by the inner-work that I did with you in the the weekend workshop, and how the tools I learned continue to improve my life.
With people like you, who are willing to share their knowledge, I have hope that the whole world can become a more peaceful and loving place. Renewing my hope and peace of mind is the biggest gift I’ve received from this course. I look forward to continuing the practices you taught.
This course has given me insight into the many subtle ways in which I have compromised compassion for myself. What a gift to be able to say NO without feeling selfish or guilt-ridden, and to learn that I’m not being selfish when I desire healthy alone time to recharge my batteries.