Embracing the Invisible Forces: An Intro to Contemplative Psychology

This long weekend will center around the Mandala of the Five Buddha Families. Through ritual and chanting, participants will explore and form relationships with the energies of the mandala, which we are all familiar with and know already.

Each of the Buddha Families offers a Contemplative Psychology method to explore; Buddha’s provides a relationship to space and has a natural link to the practice of meditation; Vajra provides a relationship to clarity and a natural link to vipashyana practice; Ratna offers a relationship to equanimity and learning non-judgemental awareness, and the practice of exchanging self with others; Padma provides a relationship to discernment and holding others in compassionate exchange; and Karma provides a relationship to manifesting and accomplishment which is a natural connection to the practice of letting go.

As we move through the mandala, participants will be invited into experiential work around all the seen and unseen energies of the world and become more skillful in meeting their experience with kindness and compassion versus reaction and judgment.