Awakening Self-Kindness:
A 3-day Online Retreat
with Michael Lobsang Tenpa
January 26 – 28, 2024
Holding Ourselves in Self-Kindness and Self-Compassion: An In-Depth Training
“Why aren’t we taught to love ourselves?” is a valid cultural question to ask, and equally important is the question of how to love ourselves, precisely: what techniques can deepen our benevolent attitude towards ourselves as a sentient beings endowed with basic goodness?
This 3-day online retreat with Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher Michael Lobsang Tenpa will include a deep, practice-oriented exploration of a number of important psychological skills related to self-directed kindness. Over the course of 12 sessions, we will explore and unpack such important skills as tenderness (known also as ‘affection’, or tsewa in Tibetan), loving kindness, and compassion, all as they are applied to ourselves.
Some of the topics covered will include:
- The psychological qualitiy of tenderness: the foundation for other types of kindness
- Self-directed loving kindness and strategies for its cultivation
- Compassion and self-compassion
- Compassionate self-correction as opposed to self-judgement and self-indulgence
- Delighting in our achievements: applying empathetic joy and rejoicing to ourselves
- Equanimous balance towards ourselves
- Extending the immeasurable attitudes towards others to counteract self-fixation
- Establishing the balance between wisdom and compassion
- Saturating ourselves with self-kindness for rest and recovery
- Using the imaginative realm to connect to deeper care
Session schedule (for all 3 days)
The schedule is given in UK time
11:00 – 12:30 – Session 1
2:00 – 3:30pm – Session 2
4:30 – 6pm – Session 3
7:00 – 8:00pm – Session 4
The entire retreat will include 12 sessions. You are welcome to join the entire retreat for full effect, or catch the sessions you can and then go through the recordings in an orderly manner.
All the participants will receive supporting materials, all the recordings, and additional guided meditations for continuous personal practice.
Any questions related to the theme of the retreat can also be submitted to the teacher throughout the days of the retreat.
If you need bursary assistance or a discount for the retreat, please contact us at office@contemplative-
Time & Location
- Online (Via Zoom)
- January 26 – 28
About the teacher
Michael Lobsang Tenpa is a Tibetan Buddhist translator, meditation instructor, Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher and student of EcoDharma.
Born in Siberia, he earned BA and MA degrees in South Asian studies, worked in social media and eventually received ordination in Nepal, spending nine years as a Tibetan Buddhist monastic before switching to the path of a lay teacher/practitioner. In addition to years of Buddhist studies and translator work (including translating and interpreting for Lama Alan Wallace on many occasions), he also trained as a secular ethics and mindfulness instructor in the Netherlands, the UK and the US.
In addition to being a teacher, he also serves as the communications and development officer for the CCN.
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