Science can tell us a lot about our emotions, but does all this knowledge really help us when we’re in the midst of an argument with a loved one? Knowing is one thing, but really understanding ourselves from the inside is another. "Cultivating Emotional Balance" can help us see and understand our emotions in a completely new way. Combining an elegant blend of contemporary emotion science and state-of-the-art contemplative mind training, this unique training provides participants with a practical understanding of their emotional life.
Part 1 of a workshop by Eve Ekman on the science of emotions, stress/burnout, and developing professional empathy, given June 30, 2013, at the first annual Greater Good Science Center Summer Institute for Educators.
Part 2 of a workshop by Eve Ekman on the science of emotions, stress/burnout, and developing professional empathy, given June 30, 2013, at the first annual Greater Good Science Center Summer Institute for Educators.
This immersive residential retreat will provide the framework and tools to settle the mind, investigate our emotions and identify the true causes of happiness.
The course includes a variety of teaching approaches from individual silent reflection to small group activity. The sessions are designed to engage mind, heart, and body in learning while building a deeper understanding of the universal nature of our emotional experiences through collective practices.
During the retreat we will experience:
Guided meditation and longer periods of silent practice
Setting the inner compass for a meaningful life
Techniques for developing attention skills and discerning mindfulness
Small group discussion and emotion episode mapping
Personal reflective writing
Learning the science of anger, fear, sadness, joy, disgust, contempt and shame
Practice approaches for shifting from emotional reactivity to skillful responding
HH Dalai Lama and Dr. Eve Ekman
CEB was inspired by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and developed with eminent psychologist Dr. Paul Ekman, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Alan Wallace, and second generation emotion researcher Dr. Eve Ekman. Using insights and methods drawn from both Western psychology and Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices, CEB asks us to investigate our inner life in order to improve our outer life and build emotional awareness, intelligence, and resilience.
Learn more about CEB here.
Pricing
Three different pricing variants are available:
Welcome USD 599.40 (USD 560.00 + USD 39.40 Registration Fee)
A Little Extra USD 722.12 (USD 675.00 + USD 47.12 Registration Fee)
Extra Generous : USD 834.16 (USD 780.00 + USD 54.16 Registration Fee)
This retreat is taught by senior CEB teachers Eve Ekman, Ryan Redman, and Tenzin Chogkyi. Eve is a contemplative social scientist and teacher. Ryan is the founder of the compassion based educational training Flourish Foundation and has a scholarly approach to his practice and teaching of meditation. Tenzin is a teacher of both Buddhist and secular programs, activist and Buddhist practitioners with more than three decades of experience.
Dr. Eve Ekman is a second-generation emotion researcher, an experienced speaker, researcher, and group facilitator. She brings a unique background ideally suited to training individuals and organizations in the science of happiness, resilience, compassion, mindfulness, and emotional awareness.
She worked for years as a social worker in health care, criminal justice, and social welfare systems. This experience inspired her to earn her master’s and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and complete her postdoctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. During her doctoral studies, she pursued an interdisciplinary approach to research through public health, sociology, education, and psychology. Also, during this time, she took over from her father, the role as one of the lead teachers for the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Her father, Dr. Paul Ekman, scholar and researcher in the field of emotions, along with Buddhist scholar and teacher, Dr. Alan Wallace developed the Cultivating Emotional Balance program at the request of the Dalai Lama at the conclusion of the 2000 Mind and Life Conference.
Her research has focused on helping professional care providers prevent burnout by teaching them practices to improve their attentional stability, insight, and resilience. Building on her research, she developed trainings to address burnout in national and international organizations and has delivered keynotes and workshops for a wide range of companies, including Airbnb, Salesforce, and Kaiser Permanente. In 2019 Eve participated in the World Economic Forum as a speaker to address compassion and stress.
Eve’s research interest includes technology that fosters emotion regulation and mindfulness, developing a dynamic measurement for empathy, and assessing the impact of provider empathy on the quality of patient care. In addition to her role with CEB, Eve is currently the Director of Training at the University of California Berkeley Greater Good Science Center.
Ryan Redman, from an early age, Ryan began developing a keen interest in contemplative-based practices and eventually traveled to India at the age of twenty to pursue his interests in meditation. Upon his return, Ryan began teaching and studying contemplative-based practices while studying at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). In addition to completing an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at UCSB, Ryan met his primary meditation teacher Dr. Alan Wallace. After graduation, Ryan returned to India several times and spent over three years there deepening his personal practice and furthering his understanding of various contemplative traditions. As a result of these experiences, Ryan has dedicated himself to exploring the interrelationship between mind transformation, personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmental stewardship. Ryan has been teaching in the Sun Valley Idaho area for the past 20 years and has completed a Masters degree in Contemplative Education from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to his role as one of the lead instructors for the CEB Certified Practitioner Program, he has served a pivotal role in developing and evolving the CEB curriculum for both teachers and students.
Ryan is also a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Flourish Foundation, a social non-profit dedicated to inspiring systemic change through cultivation of healthy habits of mind that promote personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmental stewardship.
Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology.
Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well.
Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She worked in administrative positions in several Buddhist centers in the 1990’s, and also completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period. Tenzin took monastic ordination in 2004 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and practiced as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.
In addition to CEB, Tenzin is a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training, a secular compassion training program developed at Stanford University. She is also a training and curriculum specialist for the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz. County and is on the Sustainable Caring teaching team.
She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and is also on the Board of Advisors for this organization. She is featured on a monthly radio show called Reflections on Buddhism” on KSQD 90.7 in the Santa Cruz area. The show airs on the third Sunday of each month at 6:00 pm.
She also finds time to create her Unlocking True Happiness podcast which you can check out at unlockingtruehappiness.org where you will also find her current teaching schedule. She is based in Santa Cruz, California, on traditional Awaswas and Amah Mutsun Ohlone land.