Course Overview
Buddhist psychology is best described as a science of mind. It’s practical, it’s experiential, and its fundamental purpose is to lead to the best of human possibilities – to bring healing, well-being, inner freedom – no matter what the changing circumstances of life might be.
When we forget, we move through life lost in a small perspective, limited by our conditioning: we can be lost in thought, caught up in fears or anxieties, suffering or depression. We can lose our sense of well-being. Yet, we also know there are possibilities of being open, gracious, wise, more loving, and more compassionate. There are possibilities for having a flexible and present centered life where we are living more fully and freely, where we are not caught in the fears, history and troubles of our past.
Buddhist psychology can provide you with provocative new understandings, powerful practices and possibilities for well being. It can inform or transform the way you live and work. If you are new to Buddhist teachings and meditation has seemed foreign to you, you will learn that meditation is quite natural. Simply directing your attention in a careful, considered way is the beginning. If you are someone more experienced in Buddhist practice, this course may challenge you with entirely new ways of envisioning and practicing the path of awakening.
Course Syllabus
Finding the Beauty and Goodness All Around Us
- Awakening to the Possibility of Dignity and Goodness
- Beginning to Notice: Seeing Beauty and Goodness Everywhere
- The Unfinished Business of the Heart
- A Quick Exercise: Becoming Spacious and Gracious
Unlocking the Full Potential of Mindfulness with Compassion
- How Compassion Aids Our Healing
- Is Mindfulness Impossible Without Compassion?
- Learning to Hold the World in Compassion
- Compassion For a Year: Try It and See
The Three Pillars of Mindfulness and Why Each is Key for Transformation
- Mindfulness of the Body: You Are a Fiesta
- Cultivating a Wise Relationship to Our Embodied Lives
- Fishing in the Ever-Changing River of Feelings
- The Briefness of Feelings: Noticing Small Changes
- The Variety of Thoughts: Judgments, Plans, and Reruns
- A Little Experiment: Counting Our Many Thoughts
- The Quality of Acceptance: How to Admit Vulnerability
- Meeting the Hardest Experiences with a Wise Heart
Redefining Mental Health: How Mindfulness Can Lead to Healing, Joy, and Clarity
- Building the Foundations for Mental Health
- Finding Refuge with Mindfulness
- 10,000 Joys and Sorrows: Mindfully Holding Everyday Life
- Moving Through the World with a Peaceful Heart
- Visualizing Presence and Care: A Transformative Exercise
- Questioning Ourselves: Who Arrived When You Called?
Forgiveness: The Key to Escaping the Chains of the Past
- Forgiveness: The Key to Letting Go
- Three Stories of Forgiveness
- Undertaking the Practice of Forgiveness
- Turning Forgiveness into a Way of Life
Becoming Your Own Unique Self for the Good of the World
- Becoming Free from the Small Sense of Self
- Learning to Be A Child of the Universe
- A Short Practice in Joy: Seeing the Beautiful Possibilities
- Finding the Highest Intention: How To Make Mindfulness Fruitful
- How the Rightness of Intention Creates Agents of Peace
- Holding Someone’s Highest Intention in Your Hands
Learn these essential practices for living wisely:
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Finding the beauty and goodness all around
- How to cultivate compassion
- Mindfulness of the body
- Mindfulness of feelings
- How to work with all strong emotions, from anxiety to joy
- How to acknowledge thoughts & feelings without getting caught in them
- The importance of forgiveness
- Discovering your highest intention
Who Is It For?
This program is appropriate for health care professionals.
This five-hour, self-paced program includes 32 lessons bundled into six sessions. All of the trainings and practices are to awaken to this: You are not limited by the circumstance in which you find yourselves, even if it is very difficult. Freedom, compassion and well being are available to you wherever you are.
This course is a valuable resource that can be used again and again to sustain or refresh your regular, ongoing practice.
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On-demand Course
- 5 hours of course video
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
- Certificate of completion
4 payments of $39
On-demand course + CEC
- 5 hours of course video
- Lifetime access to the content
- Access to online learning community
- Certificate of completion
- 5 Homestudy CECs
6 payments of $34
FAQs
Do you offer a money back guarantee?​
Yes, if for any reason you are not satisfied with the program please contact us within the first 30 days for a full refund.
I have more questions, can you help me?
Yes! Please email us at info@jackkornfield.com with any questions that you might have.
Continuing Education Credit (CEC) Information
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. This program offers 5 homestudy CE credits for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review the provider information below to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by jackkornfield.com and SCA.*
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Analyze and integrate Buddhist psychology’s core principles of mental health and well-being into traditional Western approaches;
- Utilize five different forms of mindfulness training, including the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of body, feelings, thoughts, and relationship;
- Utilize three Buddhist psychological practices for transforming difficult emotions;
- Utilize and incorporate compassion and forgiveness training in your professional work and personal life
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. JackKornfield.com does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above.
- The SCA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16887 for 5 contact hours.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
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If you are not completely satisfied, we will promptly issue you a refund within 30 days from the start of the course
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