Community Mentoring Programme: Warm Heart, Cool Head

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  • May 10

    Monday May 10, 2027 - Monday Jun 7, 2027

     (Start time Mon 18:30 BST - End time Mon 20:30 BST)
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    Christina Feldman
    The price includes a fee for the teacher, no additional dana will be requested.
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    Session information
    Sessions
    Session 1: Introduction, boundless friendliness
    Mon 10 May 18:30 BST - Mon 10 May 20:30 BST
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    Session 2: Joyfulness
    Mon 17 May 18:30 BST - Mon 17 May 20:30 BST
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    Session 3: Compassion
    Mon 24 May 18:30 BST - Mon 24 May 20:30 BST
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    Session 4: Equanimity
    Mon 07 Jun 18:30 BST - Mon 07 Jun 20:30 BST
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Description

Price Options:

Basic rate: £115

Standard rate: £135

Supporter rate: £155

Theme: 

The Brahma Viharas offer a profound map for living with greater openness, resilience, and ease. In this group mentoring programme, we will explore boundless friendliness (metta), joyfulness, compassion, and equanimity - not as four separate practices, but as qualities that gently flow into and strengthen one another. Together, they support a rare and valuable combination: a heart that stays warm and open, and a mind that remains steady and clear.

Who is it for?

This group is for you if you’d like to explore this core teaching of the Buddha iin more depth. The mentoring group provides a context to do so where you have time and space to consider the theme each week, to talk through with peers and ask questions to the teacher. It’s also for people who may have questions about their practice, about the dharma, that would like that close contact with a teacher that a mentoring group gives you. As such, it’s for people who have been meditating and / or studying the dharma previously, not for absolute beginners to meditation and dharma study.

What to expect

Each weekly session will include:

  • Practice: A short guided meditation
  • Reflection: A teaching on the theme
  • Breakout groups: Small-group conversations where you can share insights and challenges with fellow participants 
  • Questions: Open time to bring your questions, doubts, and experiences to the group.

Course content / schedule:

Week One: Introduction, boundless friendliness
Week Two: Joyfulness
Week Three: Compassion
Week Four: Equanimity

 

Praise for Christina:

"I would attend this mentoring group every week!" 
— Previous mentoring student with Christina 

"This has been a very thought-provoking and enriching course which has helped me along my dharma path.

Both the teacher and students meshed well together to bring forth further insights and understandings." 
— Previous mentoring student with Christina 

Event Details

Schedule:

This course will be taught on four Monday evenings on 10, 17, 24 May and 7 June from 6:30 to 8:30 pm BST.

Realtime attendance is encouraged.

Recordings:

Recordings of Christina's input will be shared after each session but the discussions will not, to create a safe confidential space around the mentoring parts of the sessions.

Suitability:

For experienced practitioners.

 Cost:

  • The price includes a fee for the teacher, no additional dana will be requested. 
  • Possibility to pay a supporter rate by selecting the option available on the registration form. 
  • If you are unable to afford the rate please let us know. We will make sure that no one is turned away because of lack of funds

Teacher:

 

CHRISTINA FELDMAN is a co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachussetts. The author of a number of books, she has been teaching insight meditation retreats internationally since 1976. She is one of the teaching faculty of the CPP programme, dedicated to the study and application of the early teachings of the Buddha and is engaged in teaching the Buddhist psychological foundations of mindfulness to those training to teach mindfulness-based applications in England, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her most recent book Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, written with Willem Kuyken, was published in the summer of 2019.