A SIX-WEEK COURSE.

COMMENCES: (Introductory session) Tuesday, 11 August, 6:30pm – 9pm.

CONCLUDES: Last session, Tuesday, 29 September, 6.30 – 9pm.

NOTE: No sessions on September 1 and 22.

WHERE: Coracle, Fairfield Uniting Church, 85 Gillies St, Fairfield VIC, Australia.

In a warm, small-group setting, explore how cultivating compassion can enrich our lives and our capacity for courageous love.

Wisdom, compassion, and awareness are naturally present within the mind. But these qualities can become obscured by our habitual ways of relating to ourselves and others. Although we would like to move through life with clarity, openness, and ease, we often find our hearts contracting in the face of our own and others’ suffering and confusion. 

‘Heart Practices’ is a 6-week course that draws on the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, and the science of compassion. The introductory evening is an opportunity to meet others interested in cultivating their natural compassion. We’ll explore compassion together: what it is, what it isn’t, and how it might be cultivated. You’ll get a sense of the small group processes that make up Heart Practices: how experiential learning is possible, how intimacy can be safely created in a small group. It will allow you to get a sense of whether you would like to take a deeper dive into the practices by enrolling in the full Heart Practices course (and if so you’ll be given a discount for what you’ve already paid).

Enrol for the introductory evening

Or Enrol in the full course now at the early-bird rate.

About the facilitators:

Petrina Barson is a poet, activist, mother, therapist, and GP. She is the Director of the Centre for a Compassionate Society. She is a certified teacher of the Compassion Institute’s Compassion Cultivation Training, and has facilitated many workshops focused on deepening connection to self and others.

Tom Hardman is a provisional psychologist. He is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, and leads a weekly meditation group for CCS.