Cultivating Compassion Course
-Discovering What Compassion Really Is

Facilitated and led by Renee Byrd. It is a 9 session course, about 2 hours each, which will include video teachings, discussion and meditation, held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30pm, March 11th- July 8th.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 108 School Street, Bennington, Vermont

Suggested donation: $5 per session

To register please email Renee Byrd at renee@renee-byrd.com or call (802)379-9437 and leave a message.
Course Description:

People have a variety of reasons for wanting to learn about and cultivate compassion, but in some way we are all suffering—be it from pain, loss, frustration, dissatisfaction, or an unfulfilled desire for happiness.

However, we are not powerless in the face of our circumstances. It is possible to consciously cultivate positive states of mind, and diminish negative states of mind, and so transform our experience and our reactions to life's circumstances and the people around us. In this way it is possible to change our lives, and bring about change in the world.

In the course students are introduced to a complete picture of what compassion is, why it might be beneficial to us and the world around us, the possibility of training in a more wholesome way of being, and how we can go about it in our daily lives.