Saturday, November 07, 2009; 10:00AM - 01:30PM
Presented by Michael Ortiz Hill and Michele Daniel, Ph.D.
All of us are required to find our way through the wilderness of suffering, our own and that of any other being. The gesture of compassion towards a suffering being is a gesture toward our own awakening and involves psychological processes that are interrelated with the development of skills which are infused with an attitude of open acceptance. In this workshop, Michele Daniel will consider the psychological processes underlying the practice of compassion while Michael Ortiz Hill will draw from his work in progress to consider the four steps: self compassion, compassion for others, radical empathy, and living compassion. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in two powerful meditation practices that foster compassion.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the three psychological processes underlying the practice of compassion
- List and describe the four steps of compassion
- Give an example of an exercise that serves to foster compassion
Michael Ortiz Hill is a registered nurse, author, a Buddhist practitioner, and an initiated medicine man with tribal people in Zimbabwe. Michael?s work in progress is The Craft of Compassion.
Michele Daniel, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. A former Associate Professor of counseling psychology at California State University, Bakersfield, she is currently on the faculty of the graduate programs in Consciousness Studies and Transformational Psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. Michele holds an additional graduate degree in Buddhist studies.
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