Lovingkindness is a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart. It is traditionally offered with meditations that enrich compassion, cultivate joy in the happiness of others, and also deepen our own sense of peace. These practices lead to the development of concentration, connection, fearlessness, and genuine happiness. Sharon Salzberg will offer these teachings and support us in our own experience and cultivation of these qualities through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern idiom. There will also be opportunities for questions. This program is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.
Early registration is strongly suggested.

Date	Day/Time	Code	Member Fee	Non-member Fee
April 19	Sunday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (doors open at 9:15 am)	CS342	$90	$110

Sharon Salzberg has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both insight meditation and lovingkindness and compassion meditation. She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Sharon’s books include The Force of Kindness, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness and A Heart as Wide as the World. She co-authored with Joseph Goldstein Insight Meditation, a Step-by-Step Course on How to Meditate (audio). She edited Voices of Insight, an anthology of writings by vipassana teachers in the west.

The Buddha was clear and straightforward in his teaching of freedom: "This is the state of sublime peace; namely, liberation through non-clinging." It is not enough to know this as Buddhist philosophy. This workshop will explore how we can realize this teaching both in our meditation practice and in the midst of our daily lives. There will be time for sitting meditation, talks and discussion.
Early registration is strongly suggested.

Date	Day/Time	Code	Member Fee	Non-member Fee
June 6	Saturday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm (doors open at 9:15 am)	CS343	$90	$110

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and a founder of The Forest Refuge, a center for experienced students, also in Barre. Since 1967 Joseph has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He is the author of Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, The Experience of Insight, and One Dharma: the Emerging Western Buddhism. He is co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course. His new book is A Heart Full of Peace.

Developed by researchers in Great Britain, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an innovative, eight-week program that has been clinically proven to bolster recovery from depression and prevent relapse. This workshop will present some of the tools and techniques MBCT utilizes to help people work more skillfully with painful thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations associated with both depression and anxiety. Workshop leaders Jerry Bass and Tom Pedulla will draw on their experience co-leading MBCT groups over the past several years to facilitate this day of teaching, mindfulness practice and discussion. This program is appropriate for mental health professionals and anyone else who wishes to get an introduction to MBCT.

Date	Day/Time	Code	Member Fee	Non-member Fee
July 18	Saturday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm (doors open at 9:15 am)	CS344	$90	$110
*Applications have been made for 5 CE credits for psychologists, social workers, nurses and mental health counselors. Those who wish to receive CE credit must include an additional $25 when they register by using these buttons to register for the workshop instead of the buttons on the previous row.			$115	$135

Jerome Bass, MD, is a psychiatrist and a long-time meditator in the Vipassana tradition.

Tom Pedulla, LICSW, is a long-time meditator, a psychotherapist, and a faculty member at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.