Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT)

SCHEDULE
8 classes, live and online via Zoom

Tuesdays 10:30am-12pm
June 3 - July 22

Each class will include guided meditations and embodiment practices, an explanation of the concepts and techniques, and time for questions and/or group discussion. 

RECORDINGS
Each of the 8 live classes will be recorded and will be made available to participants for 3 months after the final class. Any small group or break-out room sessions will not be recorded. Your participation in discussions is welcome and encouraged! And, you may choose to have your camera off or on at any point during the classes.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
In addition to the 8 live classes, participants are also supported by access to Nalanda Institute’s CRBT student training website with a wealth of resources including:

• A comprehensive Student Manual

• Pre-recorded course module videos explaining the science, practice and course theories

• Guided Practices (audio/video)

• Supplemental Readings

Regular Rate: $369
Supported Rate: $289
Supported+ Rate: $199

If you would love to participate but the above rates are prohibitive, I encourage you to reach out to me here and let me know you would like to apply for a scholarship.

PARTICIPATION COMMITMENT
You will get the most out of this class if you can do your best to attend all or most of the live classes. Missing a session is sometimes unavoidable, but if possible, this should not be the first or last class. Missed classes are non-refundable.

CANCELLATION POLICY
A full refund will be returned if you notify Stephanie of your cancellation prior to the start of and up to the first session. There is no refund for cancellation as of session 2. Participants needing to withdraw after course start (session 2 or beyond) will have the option to attend their remaining sessions in a later course offering within the same calendar year (from course start date), if available, - available only upon written request before their original course ends.

The CBRT curriculum teaches the full spectrum of research-based insights and time-tested self-regulation skills:

Bringing mindful awareness to our breathing body helps us reconnect with our inner lives, to embrace the experience of being in a sensitive body, vulnerable to pleasure and pain, and to begin releasing the survival habits of stress, trauma, and reactivity.

Staying in touch with the raw feel of our inner lives with mindful sensitivity helps us maintain balanced awareness through the ups, downs, and plateaus of pleasant, painful, and neutral experience, to anticipate reactivity, and to replace the urge to avoid or crave with the ease of acceptance and care.

Mindful Awareness trains us to cut through the mesh of reactive habits and stress instincts that normally block the full openness and clarity of our human mind. It empowers us to own and awaken the boundless potential for learning, unlearning, freedom and creativity dormant in us all. 

In Mindful Insight we engage our open mind to expose the habits of thinking, feeling, and acting that shape our mindset, empowering our inner therapist to cut the roots of reactivity and grow proactive new ways of being in the world. 

With the basic insights and practices of mindfulness-based self-healing in place, we are prepared to extend that awareness and care out to our interactions with others. Using the practice of Equal Empathy we begin to unlearn the implicit social survival biases and reactive emotions that make all our interactions stressful while deepening and expanding our sense of connection to others.  

With more of a sense of our common humanity, we explore where our social stress and suffering comes from, and what can be done to prevent it. Using the practice of Self-Compassion, we learn to view our confused childhood selves with a wise, caring mind and begin to see through our myopic cocoon and inner monologue to reparent ourselves one breath at a time by replacing self-enclosure and self-criticism with the mature insight and care our hearts need to heal, grow, and change. 

As we grow the ability to free our minds of self-limiting biases, emotions and beliefs, we gain access to our full natural potential to expand our circle of positive social engagement. Using the practice of Wise Give and Take, we explore our boundless human potential for care and strengthen our social muscles of love, joy and equanimity, and realize our full human capacity for feeling safe with and deeply connected to others. 

To accelerate the natural process of positive human development we use the power methods based on embodied techniques to progressively grow and own our natural capacities for love, compassion and altruism. Focusing on visualization practice, we take inspiration in real or imagined role models of wise care who enable us to stretch our traumatic sense of self into a fully empowered, resilient and compassionate self.  

Research studies conducted at Weill Cornell Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine with women recovering from breast cancer found that CBRT reduces biomarkers of stress, improves quality of life, lowers social-emotional and cultural role stress, enhances resilience and overall functioning, and markedly decreases post-traumatic symptoms including intrusive thinking and traumatic avoidance. Ongoing studies of the training are underway.

Nalanda Institute offers a certification program that prepares lay and professional participants to teach CBRT.

Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) empowers people to develop a more resilient mind, heart, and body by combining skills often taught separately in other mindfulness trainings - meditation/mindfulness, compassion, imagery and breath-work - into one cohesive and integrative model.

Developed by Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, Founder and Director of Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, CBRT is a complete, evidence-based training in stress-reduction and self-healing developed and tested at the university hospitals of Columbia and Cornell, where it has been offered continuously since 1998.

Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science teaches people in all walks of life timeless contemplative skills informed by current neuropsychology to empower themselves and others to cultivate a wise mind, warm heart, and altruistic way of life in our interdependent world. More info.