Hosted by Tibet House US
From April 16: Each Saturday at 11am Eastern Time
12 classes of 4 hours each
Cultivating Emotional Balance is a contemplative training program that combines the insights of psychological research with the traditional practices of mind-training. The aim of the program is to learn to use our emotions—both pleasant and unpleasant—to cultivate greater levels of clarity and psychological wellbeing.
Originally developed by Dr. Paul Ekman, Dr. Alan Wallace and Dr. Eve Ekman - at the request of the Dalai Lama - CEB has grown to become an internationally acclaimed tool for teaching key emotional and contemplative skills for those in service professions and just about anyone who wants to understand and control their emotional landscape better.
The full 42-hour Cultivating Emotional Balance program takes its participants through a deep exploration of their habits pertaining to all the major emotional groups: anger, fear, disgust, joy, sadness and so forth.
In addition, it includes a comprehensive overview of the three main forms of meditation practice:
developing attentional stability,
cultivating virtues of the heart and
looking deeply into the nature of our experiences.
This in-depth course will consist of twelve 4 - hour long sessions each including a theoretical component, interactive group activities and periods of silent practice. Learning to understand the modulations and logic of our fundamental emotional states, we will use a number of psychological and contemplative skills to establish greater levels of inner stability.
Studies have shown that taking a full-length CEB strengthens one's meta-awareness, compassion, empathy, resilience and even the ability to accurately recognize emotions in others.