Cultivating Emotional Balance is a comprehensive training method centered around the exploration of our emotional landscape and using its energy to support greater wellbeing—essentially, a greater sense of happiness, meaning and joy in the midst of our turbulent times.

Developed by Dr. Alan Wallace, Dr. Paul Ekman and Dr. Eve Ekman at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, CEB is a secular approach that combines the scientific understanding of emotions as an evolutionary mechanism with the profound contemplative methods for developing concentration, kindness and insight.

In this specific 2-hour workshop with CEB teacher Michael Lobsang Tenpa, we will focus on our enjoyable emotions—the largest of the universal emotional families.

This group of emotional states plays a key role in motivating us to cooperate, connect with others, procreate, and explore the unknown to experience greater levels of wellbeing. Triggered by a variety of different events, these states include gratitude, different types of sensory pleasure, amusement and many other experiences that bring a positive tone to our everyday life.

By looking at these states through the lens of CEB training (which includes being able to understand their inner logic) and using CEB-based practices, including several types of meditation, we can increase the role of joy in our life–and then radiate it to others.

This class is fully suitable for beginners, but would also be beneficial to those who have taken CEB programs before. Please join and invite your friends!