Compassion Center News
Feng Shui Workshop, with Will LeStrange (DGCEC's Interior Designer) "Change Your Space – Change Your Life!
Discover how Feng Shui can help you and your home Your surroundings affect the way you think, feel, and behave. Your home is a mirror of you, your inner life, and your values. If you wish to change some part of your life, then it makes sense to support that process by changing your environment…
Read MoreEmbodying Compassion – Living By The Light of Our True Self with The Dalai Lama's Translator – Gerardo Abboud November 18-20
ENGAGING WONDER, A CHRISTIAN PATH TO WHOLENESS with Joe Grant: 3 Thursdays, Sept 15, 22, 29, 7:00 – 8:30pm
The ancient Wisdom tradition within Christianity offers insights and practices to help us draw the world of crying need and awesome complexity into our heart and center. Join us to explore one of the portals for broadening and deepening our lives through the embrace and practice of astonishment and awe. Come experience how wonder widens…
Read MoreTWELVE DAYS TOWARD PEACE 2016, September 21 to October 2
Twelve Days Toward Peace 2016 September 21, International Day of Peace to October 2, International Day of Nonviolence Compassion, that desire to take action to end the suffering of another, is rooted in non-harm/nonviolence. When we want happiness for another, based on understanding our own desire to avoid suffering, we put aside all thoughts of…
Read MoreDYNAMIC NONVIOLENCE: STUDYING PEACE FOR LIVING with Cory Lockhart: 8 Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30pm, Oct 12 – Dec 7 (no class the day before Thanksgiving)
Dynamic Nonviolence: Studying Peace is based on a program developed by renowned peacemaker Colman McCarthy and taught to more than 5,000 high school, college and graduate students since 1982. In this 8-week process delve into the practice of nonviolence as a central component of compassionate living. Enjoy 15 pages of reading per session, in the…
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PRACTICAL VALUES FOR A COMPASSION-ORIENTED WORLD USING HH DALAI LAMA’S BEYOND RELIGION: ETHICS FOR A WHOLE WORLD with Anne Walter His Holiness proposes an approach to ethics – that structure that defines how one acts and interacts in our world – that is based on universal rather than religious principles. In this inclusive “third way”…
Read MoreNew Classes Begin April 5
Grief: Finding Peace, Tues, April 5, 6:30pm Planetary Peace Initiative, Wed, April 6, 5:30pm (Half Price til 4/6/16!) Planetary Peace Initiative, Fri, April 8, 9am (Half Price til 4/6/16!) The Practice of Compassion in Buddhism, Fri, April 8, 6:30pm Meditation: The Path to Inner Peace, Mon, April 11, 6:30pm Mindfulness-Based Self-Compassion, Tues, April 12, 6:30pm
Read MoreCONCERT FOR CONTEMPLATION with Harry Pickens
CONCERT FOR CONTEMPLATION with Harry Pickens Sunday, May 29 7:30 – 8:30 pm, DGCEC You are invited to a beautiful and profound step into the sacred. Please join us as Harry Pickens offers a meditative and uplifting evening featuring original, spontaneously created piano music. Allow it to weave some new joy into your life as…
Read MoreRegister Now – Meditation: Personal Insight & Spiritual Awakening Workshop
Meditation: Personal Insight & Spiritual Awakening Workshop with Peter Buecker, MD Saturday, March 12 9:00am – 1:00pm $89; Early Bird $75 by March 1 The benefits of meditation for supporting one’s health and well-being are clear. But, the practice can go much deeper. For many, meditation practice opens the door to heightened levels of personal…
Read MoreRegister Now – Bring Kindness and Clarity to a Challenging Time
Bring Kindness and Clarity to a Challenging Time With Pamela Cotton, PhD 3 Mondays, 10am to Noon: March 7, 14, and 21, 2016 Do you find yourself dealing with a life challenge that needs a fresh approach, a different kind of attention and focus? Did you lose someone recently? Are you in the midst of…
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