Empathy Training for MIT.Self-Paced

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At the time when It is needed most, do you know how to comfort your loved ones? Take care of your own anxiety and anger? Deal with numbness or compassion fatigue?

Internationally renowned Buddhist teacher, Pema Khandro Rinpoche, offers this online Empathy Training as part of the Meditation Instructor Training. This training focuses on how to be there for oneself and others through tough emotions, in stressful times and even when empathy is most difficult to come by.

This training is also led by Aruna Rig’dzin Ross and Satya Shiva, Co-Directors of Ngakpa International, the Buddhist Studies Institute, Dakini Mountain, and the Yogic Medicine Institute.

What you will gain

  • Tools for becoming a better person
  • Learn to deal with high emotion
  • Learn to meditate
  • Learn to Self-Regulate
  • Learn to listen deeply
  • Tools to resolve interpersonal conflict
  • Set appropriate boundaries
  • Know how to ask for what you want and need
  • Tools to take charge of your state of being
  • Develop self-awareness
  • How to deal with suffering
  • Vocabulary for identifying and expressing emotions
  • How to work with your own emotions
  • Ability to communicate in times of high emotion
  • Assessing appropriate contexts for deep communication
  • How to know when not to communicate
  • Recognizing control dramas
  • Steps and practices for healing relationships

 

Course Content

Empathy Training Introduction
ET: SYLLABUS: Empathy Training
ET: ARTICLE – Remove Blocks to Personal Freedom
ET: VIDEO – Introduction to Empathy Training
Empathy Training - Part 1
ET: VIDEO – Empathy, What It Is & What It Is Not
ET: EMPATHY CHALLENGE #1
ET: SURVEY – Self Assessment
Empathy Training - Part 2
ET: VIDEO – Reliable Methods
ET: EMPATHY CHALLENGE #2
ET: Body Scan Meditation (18 minutes)
Empathy Training - Part 3
ET: VIDEO – Overcoming Blocks to Empathy
ET: Tonglen 2
ET: EMPATHY CHALLENGE #3
Empathy Training - Part 4
ET VIDEO: Communicating with Empathy
ET: Slides
ET: Book Reading
ET: Course Assessment
ET: Final Quiz