Schedule and Topics

Learn about the three foundations of healthy relationships supported by both Buddhism and Western Psychology and how to cultivate these principles in your own relationships.

Learn about our brain’s negativity bias, how it can affect our relationships and how to open to the positive experiences in your life more fully

Explore the power of choosing to love especially when it’s not easy

Explore the powerful difference of viewing love as internal rather external

Discover why love is more than just a feeling

Learn about love as an antidote to fear

Find out why “real love” is important in today’s relationships

Experience a RAIN practice with Sharon for working with difficult emotions

Join in a fascinating exploration of interconnection and love

Explore mindfulness as a tool for cultivating our relationship with ourselves and others.

Learn how our personal relationships relate to broader social justice or injustice

Join in a guided mindfulness meditation practice with senior meditation teacher Janet Solyntjes

Explore the benefits of mindfulness practice in daily life

Explore attention as love and the fascinating connection between passion and mindfulness

Explore emotions as a source of wisdom and passion as both an obstacle and a friend on the path

Hear the difference between love and infatuation

Discover how mindfulness helps us to more fully engage in our relationships pain, pleasure and all

Join this fascinating conversation with Danielle LaPorte and Susan Piver and hear what they have to say about spiritual bypassing and spiritual materialism

Explore ways to work with desire (and doubt)

Hear why meditation isn’t just a “life hack”

Hear about the insights of a neurobiological approach to relationships and how to integrate these insights into your relationships

Explore several common relationship myths that do more harm than good

Learn what happens to our brains when we fall in love and mature in love

Hear this refreshing wisdom for working with a broken heart and the path of healing

Explore heartbreak as a universal experience

Discover how to connect to your own heartbreak

Hear what Lodro has to say to those who feel they won’t love again

Explore why it is often so much easier to be compassionate to others than to ourselves

Discover why self-compassion makes us better partners

Learn the difference between self-compassion and self-esteem

Learn how to practice the three parts of self-compassion

Experience the practice of taking a “self-compassion break”

Explore compassion, heartbreak and the construction of romantic fantasy in modern culture

Navigate the modern love tradition in different cultures

Experience a guided lovingkindness practice to help move from loneliness to aloneness

Hear about the importance of making friends with our own solitude

Hear Lea and Nastassja’s talk about how heartbreak isn’t separate from their love story

Explore the ways community, connection, and collaboration affect our relationships

Navigate the creative process of relationships (and learn a practice to help)

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Learn the essential ingredients for conscious lasting relationships from these two renowned relationship teachers who are living what they teach

Discover how to work with our natural instincts toward connection, as well as space

Find out what it takes to grow a healthy relationship

Learn about the “relationship dance”

Learn how to let love in and see your past more clearly to better engage in your current relationship

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Explore the powerful shift of moving from being in love to being love

Explore interconnection and love as coming from within

Explore the 4 Paths of Being Love

Hear an inspiring aspiration for all beings

Join in a delightful exploration of relationships and compassion

Learn how our personal practice can help to create a more compassionate and just society and when it’s not enough.