THE SUSTAINABLE SERVICE PROGRAM
Real Compassion Training for Real Life
Managing Conflict Compassionately
Taught by Tenzin Chogkyi
Saturday, November 7, 2026
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
In this module, we will gain insight into how conflict works, why it happens, and practical skills and steps we can use to address conflict using an informative, interactive, and fun process. The aim is to improve our capacity to listen without defensiveness, speak without offending, find common ground, and reach mutually satisfying solutions.
Participants will find that the skills learned in this training also greatly benefit their interactions at work, at home, and in the community.
This is a full day workshop. After learning the conflict management skills, participants will have a chance to practice with real life scenarios drawn from our own experience in small groups, and share and discuss these strategies with the entire group.
Please be prepared to attend the entire day. Participation in the afternoon is dependent upon participation in the morning.
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.
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.