Melissa Moore
Melissa Moore Ph.D. , has stewarded Karuna Training in North America since 2014 and co-founded Karuna Training in Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Melissa has been a Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche student since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.
Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her cat and her husband.
Upcoming Programs by Melissa Moore
Embracing the Invisible Forces: An Intro to Contemplative Psychology
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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 […]