Insight, Compassion and Healing:
A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective
This course for health professionals is based on teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. These teachings present a comprehensive cognitive training system, based on a personal realization of the wisdom of Intrinsic Healthiness. Through it one can further clarify how to keep in touch with one's inherent natural balance and work skillfully with the art of healing.
Western training often lacks a depth of instruction in the skill of mind/body stabilization for the healer. Sometimes this leads to a professional persona that is out of sync with the individual healer’s needs. It can then lead to excessive control, striving, or distance in the healing relationship. Especially in the current fast paced, changing health care environment, this can lead to a loss of delight and ease for many in their healing role. Skill with the art of healing is mastered by developing a mind that is both gentle and precise at the same time. This ability is important for all people who work directly with dis-ease; regardless of whether they are healers, caretakers, or those who have chronic illnesses. Topics discussed include:
1. An in depth exploration of the objective aspect of experience. This material is drawn from the Abhidharma and from western phenomenological research. The focus here is on the many ways of seeing things as they are and on the development of evidence-based analysis.
2. An analytic and intuitive exploration of the subjective aspect of experience especially as it relates to healing. The focus here is on working with ones mind, establishing the validity of one’s subjective experience and on developing excellent clinical skills. Topics include working with somatic experience, transference, counter-transference and on the healing relationship.
3. How healing is inherently influenced by the different potential perspectives on the reality at hand, through a study of cross-cultural healing and relative and absolute truth. The goal here is to see the potential complimentary nature of different approaches in comprehending the whole healing picture.
4. Introduction to working with health related definitions and classification systems.
5. Guidelines for evaluating the diverse medical literature.
The program takes place during Session 1 of our annual summer program. Click here for detailed program information, fees and to apply.
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