Karuna Institute

The Embodied Relational Field: (CPD) Continuing Professional Development
5-day Workshop : 4-9 August 2019
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A Two-Day Weekend Introduction to Core Process Psychotherapy DEVON : Introduction to Core Process Psychotherapy
Dates: 21-23 June 2019 : fully residential
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Introductory Workshops: Mindfulness in Relationship:
BRISTOL : Introduction to Core Process Psychotherapy
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Diploma Courses: Diploma in Relational Mindfulness/CPD
NB *Attendance at both Modules is required to obtain the Diploma* The Diploma constitutes 80 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours
... A Short Course for Personal and Professional Development DEVON : RESIDENTIAL Tutor: Maura Sills, Founder and Director of Karuna Institute (1) Mindfulness in Relationship (Part 1 of the Diploma in Relational Mindfulness) : 31 March - 5 April 2019 and (2) Liminal Mind (Part 2 of the Diploma in Relational Mindfulness) : 30 June - 5 July 2019 Cost : £1,500 Deposit : £700 (deposit payment required to secure your place : non-refundable and non-transferable) Venue: Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-iin-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR Application: To join, please return the completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR
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Application: To join, please return the completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR
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Dates: (5-day format) : Sunday 1 - Friday 6 September 2019
Location: Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR : Fully Residential
Tutor: Maura Sills, Director and Founder
... Total Cost (fully residential): £720 Deposit £400 (required to secure your place)
All course costs including deposit are non-refundable and non-transferable
Timings : Arrival between 5-6pm Sunday for registration. There is an evening session on the Sunday. The Foundation finishes on Friday at 12noon followed by lunch.
For enquiries please contact : Jacqui Aplin (+44(0)1647 221457) or email: office@karuna-institute.co.uk
Please return your completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR

Download the application form

Course description This foundation course is intended to give an introduction to the basic theory and practice of mindfulness within psychotherapeutic practice. The course introduces participants to key therapeutic contemplative practices and relational skills, grounded in the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy, one of the original mindfulness-based therapeutic forms. Its curriculum draws on thirty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on mindfulness practice. It invites us to listen at depth to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist mindfulness practices for working jointly in relationship.
Course participants are encouraged to develop the ability to deepen into a state of presence and learn to bring this state of awareness into relationship. Mindfulness-in-relationship then becomes the ground of enquiry into self and interpersonal process. In this endeavour, mindfulness practices are integrated with western psychodynamics and psychotherapy skills, a fully integrated approach. The main focus is a cultivation of qualities of presence, compassionate awareness and enquiry that we can bring to self and other within relationship, and the extension of this both into our clinical work and in our everyday lives. It will be of interest to therapists in many fields of practice including psychotherapy, counselling, practitioners of complementary and orthodox medicine, body-oriented therapies such as Craniosacral Therapy and mindfulness-based practitioners in general.
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DEVON 2019: Dates: (5-day format) : Sunday 14 - Friday 19 July 2019
Location: Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR : Fully Residential
... Tutor: Maura Sills, Director and Founder
Total Cost (fully residential): £720 Deposit £400 (required to secure your place)
All course costs including deposit are non-refundable and non-transferable
Timings : Arrival between 5-6pm Sunday for registration. There is an evening session on the Sunday. The Foundation finishes on Friday at 12noon followed by lunch.on Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR

Please return your completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR

Download the application form

Course description This foundation course is intended to give an introduction to the basic theory and practice of mindfulness within psychotherapeutic practice. The course introduces participants to key therapeutic contemplative practices and relational skills, grounded in the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy, one of the original mindfulness-based therapeutic forms. Its curriculum draws on thirty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on mindfulness practice. It invites us to listen at depth to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist mindfulness practices for working jointly in relationship.
Course participants are encouraged to develop the ability to deepen into a state of presence and learn to bring this state of awareness into relationship. Mindfulness-in-relationship then becomes the ground of enquiry into self and interpersonal process. In this endeavour, mindfulness practices are integrated with western psychodynamics and psychotherapy skills, a fully integrated approach. The main focus is a cultivation of qualities of presence, compassionate awareness and enquiry that we can bring to self and other within relationship, and the extension of this both into our clinical work and in our everyday lives. It will be of interest to therapists in many fields of practice including psychotherapy, counselling, practitioners of complementary and orthodox medicine, body-oriented therapies such as Craniosacral Therapy and mindfulness-based practitioners in general.
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Foundation Courses **Attendance at either a Foundation or Diploma in Relational Mindfulness is pre-requisite to applying to join the Post-Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness Based Core Process Psychotherapy scheduled to start in Autumn 2019**
LONDON 2019: Dates: Friday 22 - Tuesday 26 February 2019
... Location: Jamyang Buddhist Centre, The Old Courthouse, 43 Renfrew Road, Lambeth London, SE11 4NA : non-residential
Tutor: Maura Sills, Director and Founder Total Cost (non residential): £480 Deposit: £280 (required to secure your place)
All course costs including deposit are non-refundable and non-transferable
Timings : Friday - Monday : 9.30am-5.30pm and Tuesday 9.30am-12noon
For enquiries please contact : Jacqui Aplin (+44(0)1647 221457) or email: office@karuna-institute.co.uk
Please return your completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR

**Attendance at either a Foundation or Diploma in Relational Mindfulness is pre-requisite to applying to join the Post-Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness Based Core Process Psychotherapy scheduled to start in Autumn 2019**
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It looks a bit like Christmas! There are still some places left on the elemental energies retreat starting on Sunday. Come and join us for a cosy retreat on beautiful Dartmoor.

LONDON 2019:
Dates: Friday 22 - Tuesday 26 February 2019
Location: Jamyang Buddhist Centre, The Old Courthouse, 43 Renfrew Road, Lambeth London, SE11 4NA : non-residential
... Tutor: Maura Sills, Director and Founder
Total Cost (non residential): £480 Deposit: £280 (required to secure your place)
All course costs including deposit are non-refundable and non-transferable
Timings : Friday - Monday : 9.30am-5.30pm and Tuesday 9.30am-12noon
Course description
This foundation course is intended to give an introduction to the basic theory and practice of mindfulness within psychotherapeutic practice. The course introduces participants to key therapeutic contemplative practices and relational skills, grounded in the practice of Core Process Psychotherapy, one of the original mindfulness-based therapeutic forms. Its curriculum draws on thirty years of experience in offering psychotherapy trainings based on mindfulness practice. It invites us to listen at depth to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist mindfulness practices for working jointly in relationship.
Course participants are encouraged to develop the ability to deepen into a state of presence and learn to bring this state of awareness into relationship. Mindfulness-in-relationship then becomes the ground of enquiry into self and interpersonal process. In this endeavour, mindfulness practices are integrated with western psychodynamics and psychotherapy skills, a fully integrated approach. The main focus is a cultivation of qualities of presence, compassionate awareness and enquiry that we can bring to self and other within relationship, and the extension of this both into our clinical work and in our everyday lives. It will be of interest to therapists in many fields of practice including psychotherapy, counselling, practitioners of complementary and orthodox medicine, body-oriented therapies such as Craniosacral Therapy and mindfulness-based practitioners in general.

For enquiries please contact : Jacqui Aplin (+44(0)1647 221457) or email: office@karuna-institute.co.uk
Please return your completed application form to Jacqui Aplin, Administrator, Karuna Institute, Natsworthy Manor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TR
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There are a few places left on this retreat.

There are still some places available on this retreat, give yourself a pre Christmas treat on beautiful Dartmoor!

Graduation and accreditation ceremony 2018 Congratulations everyone!!

Misty morning at Karuna for Clinical year group 2. Wonderful week with a lovely group.

Karuna’s Craniosacral Biodynamic practitioner training course class 2016-2018 has graduated this September. Well done to everyone! Graduates are starting out on a powerful life journey and their commitment to alleviating suffering is wonderful and life changing. Much best wishes to all! See our pictures of the tutor team and graduating class.

Well, it's been some years and I am missing this place. I received a letter this morning for reaccreditation and all I can think is to be sitting in the group, feeling the connection, warmth and the unique holding this place let me experience. I'd do the training again, it's that good.

Karuna Institute. Home away from home. School for Buddhist Psychotherapy, a unique and beloved place where I have graduated with Master's Degree (MA) in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy and have received as well accreditation. Have completed Foundation course, PQMA 2009-2011 and Clinical year. Studying at Karuna has been an experience that nourished me so deeply in a way which echoes in the depth of my being to this day. Training is taking place in a retreat modality in the beautiful scenery of Dartmoor National Park, England.

Held with compassion, tenderness and wisdom of heart by Karuna's tutors. Recommended to anyone who wishes for a truly authentic training of inner inquiry, deepening embodied awareness, cultivating presence and open-hardheartedness in relationship. With love and gratitude, I cherish Karuna in my heart:)

I wish I could study their CPP Diploma....As of now I have two little ones and I live in Madrid so it is a bit complicated. However, I don´t lose hope! :-). I attended a Foundation course with Maura Sills in London and I have no words. A-MA-ZING. Xxxxx

I studied the PQMA in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapeutic Practise.

For me there is not a better course that I could have found. It was rich beyond measure and the tutors excellent. I was attracted on three accounts, 1) that it is 70% experiential which simply makes sense for me in regards to psychotherapy training, 2) the integration of Eastern and Western psychology is rich and in my view highly appropriate to our times in the West, 3) the excellent tutors and the connection and trust i felt in them. I am now with a fairly flourishing psychotherapy practise en route to accredit in a few months. The proof is finally in the pudding of the work with clients. The foundations that Karuna have provided for me for my practise with clients has been wonderful...and the learning in truth never stops along the journey. I highly recommend the college to those who feel called to it in any way.

I studied Core Process Psychotherapy and found the masters to be an intense, yet very rewarding journey. The journey continues to unfold, still gifting me it many rewards.