Workshops are
Divided by Their Respective Audiences:
Workshops for Everyone
Workshops for Healthcare Professionals
Workshops for
Business Professionals
The Heart of Understanding :
Appreciating Change With the Clarity of Meditation
This workshop will begin by explaining the clarity of mind and the
changeable nature of everyday activity. Realizing how precious that makes each
moment of our life can lead us to a feeling of exhilaration and commitment to
making life meaningful. Instruction in a breathing, mindfulness and analytical
meditation practice that can be used to focus the self in gratitude, openness
and wisdom will be taught to all participants.
Using Buddhist Meditation
Principles to Create a Personalized Devotional Practice
In this workshop you will learn the way to practice meditation for healing
your body and mind. The 5 methods of meditation within the practice: Breathing,
Movement, Visualization, Analyzing and Chanting/Mantra will be explained and
practiced. The components of Refuge, Prostration, Confession/Repentance,
Rejoicing, Requesting and Dedication will be illustrated as traditional ways of
composing a practice. A discussion and question and answer period will follow
that will be focused on ways to incorporate these techniques into a busy life by
combining them into a devotional practice that is meaningful to your personal
faith.
Buddhist
and Psychological Principles of Conflict Resolution: Integrating Kindness and
Compassion with Communication
This workshop focuses on the 3 psychological approaches to interacting with
others: Pleasing, Asserting and Avoiding and how to broaden your style of
communication to include all of these in a positive and flexible framework of
compassionate and wise living. A Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation coupled with
the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Taking and Giving (Tonglen) will be taught.
This will assist the participant in the practice of viewing friends, enemies and
strangers equally and will make interacting with others more effective.
Dealing with Negative Emotions
Through Psychology and Meditation
What do you do when you are feeling angry, depressed or attached to an
outcome? This workshop will explain negative emotion and offer both
psychological and meditation remedies that are specific to each of these
conditions. Participants will learn what happens in the mind that triggers these
emotions, how they impact our well being, and how to refocus the mind to a place
of understanding and relaxation for better interaction with others.
Understanding
and Relieving the Suffering of Yourself and Others: Psychological and Buddhist
Perspectives
This workshop explains the three types of suffering and the way to manage
them, using The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism and a meditation on the levels of
suffering. An understanding of how mood is impacted by thought and behavior
psychologically will also be discussed. Finally, a meditation and explanation
for a front generation visualization practice of the Medicine Buddha, along with
his mantra, will be taught and practiced to be used for self healing and the
healing of others.
Buddhist Basics
Understand the foundation of all Buddhist teachings by learning about the 4
Noble Truths, The Eightfold Path, The 6 Perfections, the Pratimoksha and
Bodhisattva Vows and the need to integrate compassion and wisdom in interacting
with the world through meditation. Concepts of Samsara, Nirvana, Karma,
Grasping/Craving, and Afflictive Emotions will be explained. A brief explanation
of the Tibetan Buddhist process (Lam Rim) that allows you to free yourself from
negative emotional patterns and to reach a state of peace and contentment by
understanding interdependence and emptiness will be the focus of this
interactive workshop. Two short texts by Je Rinpoche Lama Tsong Khapa, The
Foundation of All Good Qualities and The Three Principles of the Path will be
used.
WORKSHOPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS:
Good Medicine: A Healing Balance
for the Cared for and the Caregiver
Research driven ways to prevent caregiver strain and burnout to
remain professionally effective are the focus of this workshop for healthcare
providers. The suffering of pain, physical and mental illness, the suffering of
changes in our lives and the all pervasive suffering that underlies the human
condition will be explored. An understanding of how mood is impacted by thought
and behavior psychologically will also be discussed. Finally, both a
non-denominational meditation and the practice of the Medicine Buddha will be
taught to be used for self healing and the healing of others.
A brief version of this workshop can be presented in 90 minutes. For deeper understanding, this workshop can be presented in 4 hours.
WORKSHOPS FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS:
Creating a Culture of Meaning and
Purpose: A Workshop for Leaders
Defining the values, mission and purpose of your business creates a
structure that frees your staff to focus on goals and solutions that will work.
Problems are viewed as opportunities to better understand service to others.
Compassion for staff and clientele produces motivated professionals who feel
connected to the work that they do and who communicate this to the customers
they serve. Teach your staff effective problem solving and communication skills
tailored to your business culture using the principles of mindful attention.
- This workshop
- The workshop presented to your staff can be designed for 90 minutes, 4 hours or a full day of retreat.
- Modules include training in:
- How thinking impacts motivation and outcomes
- Assessing communication and marketing strategies that have negatively impacted profits and realigning these for greater success
- Managing change effectively
- How mindful attention to self results in more positive transactions
- Research driven suggestions for greater health and wellness
Executive Coaching
Individual or small group sessions with management team members for
problem-solving from a mindful perspective can be contracted for 4, 8 or 12
meetings with Dr. Casmar.