Karuna Dartmoor
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We offer international training through our partnership with Satimudita.
See here for more information.
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This foundation course is intended to give an introduction to the basic theory and practice of mindfulness within psychotherapeutic practice. The course introduces participants to key therapeutic contemplative practices and relational skills, grounded in the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy, one of the original mindfulness-based therapeutic forms. Its curriculum draws on forty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on mindfulness practice. It invites us to listen at depth to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist mindfulness practices for working jointly in relationship. More information here.
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We are offering an assortment of one day retreats throughout Autumn and Winter 2024. MORE INFO HERE.
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Course participants will be introduced to and practice key concepts of Contemplative Supervision. You will be asked to engage in Small Group Active Supervision, Case Presentation and Contemplative Practices. We will engage in collective enquiry into territories that will be drawn from principles of inclusion and diversity. Specialist speakers, including external supervisors, will be invited to engage in these territories.
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This is intended for experienced practitioners and is considered as Continuing Professional Development for qualified practitioners and those engaged in Group Work. This can include environments whose participants are involved in a diversity of group work including psychotherapeutic work.
The Contemplative Model of Group Enquiry has its roots in the awareness practices of engaged Buddhism through developing an embodied sense of presence and relational mindfulness. The inner practices of the practitioner in relationship to both the individuals and the group are held within a larger holding field of collective awareness of the subtle and subliminal.
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New dates for our Diploma In Relational Mindfulness. MORE INFORMATION HERE. There are two modules for this Diploma, which can also be taken as separate individual courses.
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New online Kum Nye one day retreats from September 2024 through to March 2025 now available. MORE INFO HERE.
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If you’re looking for a venue for your retreat or group, we have a new venue hire page.
The beautiful retreat venue of Karuna Dartmoor is located in Natsworthy Manor, which dates back to the Doomsday Book. The breathtaking wildness and beauty of Dartmoor National Park surrounds us. Karuna Dartmoor is an ideal venue for Mind and Body Retreats, the venue facilities lend themselves particularly to Yoga Retreats, Meditation Courses and Holistic Therapy. MORE INFORMATION HERE. -
In this immersive lucid dreaming training offered for Psychotherapists, Counsellors, long-term Meditators and Meditation Teachers and Health Care Professionals we’ll explore how to transform the third of our lives that we spend in bed by learning how to dream lucidly and sleep consciously. SEE MORE HERE.
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A sacred liberatory retreat for ‘white’ bodied kin dedicated to loosening and dismantling white supremacy in service of freedom kinships and collective liberation. loosening the warp is a life-affirming quest to free ourselves from race thinking and behaviour. MORE INFO HERE.
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The Speech of Earth gathering may call to you if:
You wish to explore your relationships with the wider than human world and what the intimacy of these relationships mean for our collective health and wellbeing, in these times of great change, challenge and opportunity.
Karuna Dartmoor
Training & Retreat Centre
Karuna is a Sanskrit word that means compassion. This is understood to be a natural dimension of our human condition and manifests through bringing a quality of awareness and presence to our experience. In everyday life, the challenge is to cultivate a state of presence within which we can rest so that this nourishes our perceptions of ourselves and others.
Based in the heart of moorland in Devon, Karuna Dartmoor (previously The Karuna Institute) is a world famous centre for Core Process Psychotherapy and Kum Nye training. We provide opportunities for deepening embodied awareness and cultivating presence and open-heartedness in relationship.
The integration of mindfulness practices with western psychotherapeutic practices is entirely unique. Karuna Dartmoor is evolving its own wisdom tradition, which acknowledges its ancient roots in Buddhist psychology, ethics and practice and also its roots in western psychodynamic psychotherapeutic practice. It provides unique contemporary trainings at the forefront of orthodox and complementary healthcare.
If you are looking for the Karuna Institute Bristol website, please CLICK HERE.
