Sustainable Service Program
Real Compassion Training for Real Life
Setting Boundaries with Compassion for Others and Ourselves
(9:30 am – 12:30 pm)
Taught by Tenzin Chogkyi
It’s easy to think that being kind and compassionate means that we have to be available to everyone, 24/7, and do whatever it is they ask of us. We feel guilty about saying “no” or valuing our own needs. As a result, instead of feeling open and compassionate, we end up feeling resentful, stressed, and burned out. Is this really the meaning of compassion? How can we set boundaries compassionately so that we can hold ourselves with care while helping others?
We can experience obstacles to self-compassion, especially in the context of our work to care for others. But increasing our self-compassion resources us, and motivates us to reach out in connection and service to others.
Join us for this exploration of this important question – real compassion training for real life. Participants will gain insights and skills that will allow them to show up with compassion and altruistic action sustainably, thus avoiding burn-out.
Attendees of the morning SSP session have the option to also attend the afternoon Delek/Service Program half-day retreat which begins at 1:30 pm.
How to Attend
Click here to register. We encourage pre-registration to help us plan, but you may also register at the door on the day of the training. Pre-registration is $40.00 and registration at the door is $50.00. On-site Teacher Dana recommended.
Lunch will be on your own with water and coffee supplied at the temple. Parking available in the adjacent parking lot and on the street. (Be mindful of restricted 2-hour parking on some streets – enforcement and ticketing does occur with some frequency.)
For questions, please contact Susan Farrar at info@lionsroardharmacenter.org.
Delek/Service Program Half-day Retreat
Study and Conversations on Service in Daily Life
(1:30 pm – 4:30 pm)
Facilitated by Tenzin Chogkyi
In this quarterly half-day retreat, members of the Delek Program and attendees of the morning SSP training will share their experiences with service, discuss obstacles and questions in terms of offering service, and work on maintaining and building the skills introduced in the Sustainable Service Program. For questions, please contact Susan Farrar at info@lionsroardharmacenter.org.
About Tenzin Chogkyi
Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period and took monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, practicing as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.
She is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well.
She is currently based in Santa Cruz, California. You can find her current teaching schedule as well as an archive of podcasts, audio, and video teachings at unlockingtruehappiness.org.