Faculty to include contemplative pioneers Bob Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, Dan Siegel and Richie Davidson
Newswise — The Nalanda Institute announced that enrollment is now open for their inaugural Certificate Program in Contemplative Psychotherapy to begin in Fall 2013. The program offers therapists, health workers, coaches, educators and other professionals in the healing arts an opportunity to immerse themselves in the inspiring new field of contemplative neuropsychology.
The two-year Program offers an intensive, step-by-step learning experience integrating mindfulness and four progressive systems of Buddhist psychology and meditation, with the most promising breakthroughs in contemporary neuroscience, health psychology, and psychotherapy. Dr. Joseph Loizzo, Founder and Director of Nalanda says: “We hope this program will provide the knowledge and skills caregivers need to weave the full spectrum of contemplative insights and methods into their professional practice and personal lives, while also providing a vital network for lifelong inspiration, learning and development.”
The program assembles world pioneers in contemplative research and clinical practice including Prof. Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, Drs. Dan Siegel, Rick Hansen, and Richard Davidson. They will be joined by top experts in neuroscience, psychology, Buddhism and education who will discuss the practical applications of broad concepts in their fields of study. Dan Siegel notes the importance of this integrated approach: "Science brings knowledge and technology but not necessarily wisdom. It is natural then to seek a weaving of the important contributions of all the sciences with the deep understanding of our subjective mental lives in the wisdom traditions of contemplation."
Year One of the Certificate Program prepares participants to build mindfulness practice into psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies, and to build loving-kindness practice into object-relational, interpersonal, and family therapies.
Year Two of the Certificate Program, prepares participants to build compassion-training practices like self-analysis and giving-and-taking into self-psychology and transpersonal psychology, and to build role-modeling imagery and sublimation practices into guided imagery, narrative therapy, somatic therapy, deep affect therapy, and gestalt therapy.
The Program will include an initial 4-day weekend retreat, 30 weekly 3-hour evening classes and intensive instruction in meditation from world masters Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman. Enrollment will be limited to 30 people in order to facilitate personal access to mentors and faculty and to develop a sense of community among participants.
The program will be hosted by the Tibet House in New York City. Bob Thurman, President of the Tibet House says, "It is my pleasure to offer the Nalanda Certificate Program, the first complete introduction to Tibetan Buddhist mind science that locates all four of its systems of self-healing and self-transformation in the context of current developments in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience."
Bios Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D. is Nalanda’s Founder and Executive Director and serves as core faculty and Director of Curriculum for the Contemplative Psychotherapy Certification Program. After training in medicine and psychiatry at Harvard and completing a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at Columbia, he founded Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, a contemplative learning community that teaches timeless tools of self-healing and interdependence for today’s complex world. Dr. Loizzo is a contemplative psychotherapist in private practice, stress researcher and meditation instructor who integrates Tibetan contemplative science with current breakthroughs in neuroscience and optimal health. He is on faculty at the Weill Cornell Center for Integrative Medicine and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies, teaches regular public classes and workshops both locally and nationally. Dr. Loizzo is widely published including the translation study of contemplative self-healing in Buddhism, Nagarjuna’s Reason Sixty with Chandrakirti’s Commentary, multiple journal articles, as well as his latest book, Sustainable Happiness: The Mind Science of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration.
Emily Wolf, Ph.D., M.S.Ed., currently the Program Director for the Contemplative Psychotherapy Certification Program and Assistant Director of Research at Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. Dr. Wolf is a Psychologist and University Mental Health Counselor who integrates the contemplative methods of Indian yoga and meditation into Western psychodynamic therapy, recovery and health education. Emily has conducted ground-breaking research on the positive health benefits and developmental effects of long term Tantric meditation and yoga practice. Emily is also a certified Hatha yoga instructor, and has studied under Ashtanga yoga masters both in the US and India for over a decade. Emily has been studying and working with Dr. Loizzo since 2002.
Miles Neale, Psy.D. is the Institute’s Assistant Director and serves as a core member of our contemplative psychology faculty. Dr. Neale leads Nalanda’s 4-Year Program in Sustainable Happiness, and offers frequent Nalanda teachings and retreats at New York venues including Tibet house and the Interdependence Project. He has taught the Nalanda twenty-week program in our second Avon study at Montefiore Hospital, and is also an instructor of mind/body medicine for the Program for Meditation and Healing at the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine of Weill Cornell College of Medicine. Outside Nalanda, Miles has an active private psychotherapy practice in New York City.
Details:
The certificate program launches with a 4-day retreat held upstate New York from September 5th through 9th 2013, and classes will be held on Thursday evenings from 6-9 pm at Tibet House NYC near Union Square. Tuition is $5,500 per year and includes retreat expenses. A small number of scholarships are available based on financial need. You can find additional information regarding the 2 year certificate program program including directions for how to apply at
http://nalandascience.org/pages/certificate-overview.html
The Nalanda Institute is a non-profit that offers programs combining mind science and mind-training skills to end stress, nurture happiness, and cultivate lives of sustainable well-being, compassion, and altruism.
Nalanda Programs teach reproducible methods of healing and change, and are designed for professionals and the communities they serve, inquiring individuals, and targeted groups such as businesses, health systems, and underserved populations. The proven appeal and impact of our programs depends on a step-by-step method of experiential learning, combining the most effective contemplative skills—yoga and mindfulness, compassion and openness, imagery and deep-breathing—with current breakthroughs in neurobiology, psychotherapy and positive health.
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