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RESIDENTIAL RETREAT Nalanda Contemplative Psychotherapy


  • Landguet Ried, Center for mindful living 10 Hilfligweg Niederwangen bei Bern, BE, 3172 Switzerland (map)

CHF 390.00
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Pricing (excl. Accomodation & Meals)
CHF 390.–

Retreat costs are excl. accommodation and meals. You can make your room inquiry on our website after the registration for the event is completed. It is only possible to inquire about a room for this event once you have completed the registration process for the event. Single rooms are booked out for this event !

For the room request, please have your registration order number ready, which you received in the confirmation email after your registration was completed.


This residential retreat is part of the two-year mindfulness and compassion-based training, Nalanda Contemplative Psychotherapy Programme (CPP), designed and delivered by the Nalanda Institute of New York, which started in October 2021 and will span over two years.

The residential retreat, which marks the opening of the second year dedicated to compassion, is also open to external participants who are interested in learning firsthand from some of the most renowned Dharma teachers of our time. You will learn how to integrate contemplative practices and Buddhist psychology with contemporary psychotherapy, and current neuropsychology. There will also be the possibility to join the full training after the residential retreat.

The retreat will be guided by Joe Loizzo, the Founder and Director of the programme, supported by the German-speaking scientist and Dharma teacher, Diego Hangartner and by Rahshaana Green, Director of the Live Learning Contemplative Psychotherapy Programme

Important: participants taking part in the full Nalanda CPP programme don’t need to register for the residential retreat – you can just book accommodation here >


Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD is a Harvard-trained contemplative psychotherapist, Buddhist scholar, and author with over four decades experience integrating Indo-Tibetan mind science and healing arts into modern neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and clinical research. He is founder and director of the Nalanda Institute, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a clinician in private practice in Manhattan. Joe is the author of numerous scholarly review articles on contemplative neuropsychiatry and psychotherapy. He is the author of the comprehensive textbook, Sustainable Happiness: The Mind Science Of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration. He is executive editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation, a groundbreaking collection of essays by pioneers of the fast-emerging and highly promising new field of contemplative psychotherapy.


Diego Hangartner,PhD, PCC is a clinical pharmacologist and certified coach (PCC), using neuroscientific, performance and clinical scientific insights, combining them to strengthen mental fitness and wellbeing. He spent many years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India, studying, translating and publishing several Tibetan works, and organized many large events with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Asia, Europe and the USA. Diego was COO of Mind and Life Institute in the US and co-founder and director of Mind and Life Institute in Europe until 2015. Today, he continues his research and teaching with the Max Planck Institute, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, and is a lecturer at the Business School of the University St.Gallen. He is the Co-Director of the Contemplative Psychotherapy Program Switzerland.


Rahshaana Green, MBA, PMP, RYT, is the Director of the Live Learning Contemplative Psychotherapy Program. She is a coach and business consultant with expertise in Business Development, Marketing, and Strategy in Healthcare and Science. She is also a yoga/meditation teacher specialized in working with injured, aging, and perinatal clients. Green received her BA in Biophysical Chemistry from Dartmouth College, her MBA from University of Texas-Austin, and her foundational yoga training with Ana Forrest. She teaches mindfulness and compassion through meditation and yoga to corporate, group, and private clients and is passionate about empowering others to cultivate well-being and resilience.