Monthly Compassion Meditation

With Dr. Petrina Barson

THIS EVENT IS NOW AVAILABLE  ON- LINE 

NEXT SESSON IS on the 4th SUNDAY of the month 5.00PM TO 6.00PM

To participate on-line use this link to join the meditation:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82592426858?pwd=bmdUb29GL2pnNVo2Zm1Id3pvRkxEQT09

Meeting ID: 825 9242 6858
Passcode: 113100

Background

Over the last few year The Contemplary has been offering courses in Mindful Self-Compassion and Cultivating Compassion Training.  For sometime we have recognised the need for alumni of these courses – and people who have discovered compassion meditation practices through religious or secular events – to have the opportunity to meet periodically and practice compassion meditation together.  Group practice can both help sustain or rekindle individual practice and provide opportunities for connection and community.

In collaboration with the Centre for a Compassionate Society (CCS) https://centreforacompassionatesociety.net, The Contemplary is pleased to offer monthly compassion meditations usually on the 4th Sunday of each month, from 5-6pm, led by Dr Petrina Barson, certified teacher of the Compassion Institute’s Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). This is an opportunity for CCT alumni and others to experience the rich practices that derive from Tibetan Buddhism but are accessible to anyone keen to develop their natural capacity for compassion into a more reliable resource for self and for the world.  These meditations are part of our Sunday Evening Meditations series.

Venue

ONLINE

Date and Time

Monthly Compassion Meditations are offered on the third Sunday of each month.  The next Monthly Compassion Meditation is Sunday 22nd of May, 2022, 5.00pm.

Cost

There is no charge for this event

Petrina Barson

Dr Petrina Barson MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG, BA (Hons), Grad Dip MHS. Certified Compassion Cultivation Training teacher (Stanford CCARE). Petrina Barson lives in Thornbury. In addition to being a CCT teacher, she is a mother, a doctor, a poet and an activist on issues of climate change and refugee rights. The thread that runs through all these domains is her passion for compassion, and her deep conviction that we have more in common than divides us. She loves teaching the CCT curriculum because it provides a practical pathway for strengthening our compassion, while fully apprehending the barriers to compassion and helping to dismantle them. She has been teaching CCT to medical students at the University of Melbourne, and to health professionals, since 2014. She is a long-term member of a progressive Christian community, which inspires and supports her practice of compassion. She understands compassion to be an innate human capacity which transcends all religious and cultural divides.