Nalanda Institute’s Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) is a complete, evidence-based method of training the resilience of mind, heart, and body we need to sustain lives of well-being, engagement and purpose in our interdependent world. It empowers people to develop a more resilient mind, heart, and body by combining skills taught separately in other trainings—mindfulness, compassion, imagery, and breath-work—into one step-by-step introduction, providing an efficient way of educating groups in the full spectrum of mind/body research and contemplative skills. It was developed and tested at the university hospitals of Columbia and Cornell, where it has been offered continuously since 1998.
During the eight week CBRT class, participants will be supported by Nalanda Institute training websites with research articles and study aids including a student manual, instructional videos, and a full series of guided meditation audio files to prompt homework and fieldwork.
Gretchen Blycker is a certified CBRT teacher and offers classes in Jamestown, RI.
For more information about classes please email [email protected]
For more information about Nalanda Institute please visit nalandainstitute.org
The CBRT class module topics are listed below.
During the eight week CBRT class, participants will be supported by Nalanda Institute training websites with research articles and study aids including a student manual, instructional videos, and a full series of guided meditation audio files to prompt homework and fieldwork.
Gretchen Blycker is a certified CBRT teacher and offers classes in Jamestown, RI.
For more information about classes please email [email protected]
For more information about Nalanda Institute please visit nalandainstitute.org
The CBRT class module topics are listed below.
Endorsement for CBRT with Gretchen
"I highly recommend participating in Compassion-Based Resilience Training with Gretchen Blycker. This program taught me how to be more mindful, resilient, and compassionate with myself and others. Gretchen’s insight, guidance, and wisdom were invaluable throughout this course. Via guided meditation, breathing practices, and course content, I gained tactical skills that assist me in effectively managing stress in all areas of my life. This journey to self-healing allowed me to connect with myself on a deeper level, and shifted my thought processes to establish focus and clarity. I learned how to create a mental safe space for decision-making, by taking a moment to pause and reflect before reacting. I no longer feel reactive, but in control of my responses. My mental state and overall well-being have significantly improved as a result of partaking in this class, as I now feel more balanced, grounded, and better equipped to navigate difficult relationships and situations."
New to meditation- CBRT helps with personal wellness and growth
"Gretchen did an outstanding job explaining the themes taught in the training so that I understood how to bring these practices home, and apply them in my everyday life. I had never meditated prior to this class, but implementing a regular mediation practice into my routine has been monumental for my personal wellness and growth. CBRT aided in identifying opportunities for self-change when it came to my mental, emotional, and lifestyle habits. I am a happier individual after undergoing this self-analysis, and have learned to cultivate affirmative thinking patterns, attitudes, and outlook."
CBRT provided valuable community of Support
"Our class was a welcoming and inclusive environment where I felt listened to at all times, and comfortable sharing my thoughts, feelings, and personal experiences. Weekly check-ins and support from the group created a sense of community, which I found particularly valuable in today’s challenging times. CBRT changed my perspective, enhanced my self-awareness, and improved my quality of life. For these reasons and so many more, I give Compassion-Based Resilience Training with Gretchen Blycker five out of five stars. Life will always bring forth stresses, but this course has taught me how to handle these circumstances in a proactive and constructive manner. Thank you, Gretchen!!!"
Meetings in Jamestown will be held outside in Kundalini Garden (shown in the videos below), weather permitting, or at the Hälsosam Therapy office at 16 Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, RI (shown in the photos below).
The CBRT curriculum teaches the full spectrum of research-based insights and time-tested self-regulation skills:
MODULE I
Embracing Suffering with Body Mindfulness
Bringing mindful awareness to our breathing body helps us reconnect with our inner lives, to embrace the experience of being in a sensitive body, vulnerable to pleasure and pain, and to begin releasing the survival habits of stress, trauma, and reactivity.
MODULE II
Stopping Reactive Habits with Mindful Sensitivity
Staying in touch with the raw feel of our inner lives with mindful sensitivity helps us maintain balanced awareness through the ups, downs, and plateaus of pleasant, painful, and neutral experience, to anticipate reactivity, and to replace the urge to avoid or crave with the ease of acceptance and care.
MODULE III
Breaking Free of Stress with Mindful Awareness
Mindful Awareness trains us to cut through the mesh of reactive habits and stress instincts that normally block the full openness and clarity of our human mind. It empowers us to own and awaken the boundless potential for learning, unlearning, freedom and creativity dormant in us all.
MODULE IV
Mindful Insight: The Lifelong Path of Self-Healing
In Mindful Insight we engage our open mind to expose the habits of thinking, feeling, and acting that shape our mindset, empowering our inner therapist to cut the roots of reactivity and grow proactive new ways of being in the world.
MODULE V
Disarming Social Stress and Bias with Equal Empathy
With the basic insights and practices of mindfulness-based self-healing in place, we are prepared to extend that awareness and care out to our interactions with others. Using the practice of Equal Empathy we begin to unlearn the implicit social survival biases and reactive emotions that make all our interactions stressful while deepening and expanding our sense of connection to others.
MODULE VI
Healing Reactive Emotions and Beliefs with Self-Compassion
With more of a sense of our common humanity, we explore where our social stress and suffering comes from, and what can be done to prevent it. Using the practice of Self- Compassion, we learn to view our confused childhood selves with a wise, caring mind and begin to see through our myopic cocoon and inner monologue to reparent ourselves one breath at a time by replacing self-enclosure and self-criticism with the mature insight and care our hearts need to heal, grow, and change.
MODULE VII
Cultivating Prosocial Emotions with Wise Give and Take
As we grow the ability to free our minds of self-limiting biases, emotions and beliefs, we gain access to our full natural potential to expand our circle of positive social engagement. Using the practice of Wise Give and Take, we explore our boundless human potential for care and strengthen our social muscles of love, joy and equanimity, and realize our full human capacity for feeling safe with and deeply connected to others.
MODULE VIII
Embodying a Resilient Self and Life with Caring Imagery
To accelerate the natural process of positive human development we use the power methods based on embodied techniques to progressively grow and own our natural capacities for love, compassion and altruism. Focusing on visualization practice, we take inspiration in real or imagined role models of wise care who enable us to stretch our traumatic sense of self into a fully empowered, resilient and compassionate self.
These guided meditation videos below are an invitation for you to spend some time in mindful awareness within the inner landscape and atmosphere of your body and mind.
You are welcome to engage and explore with this mindful inquiry with your eyes open, closed or some time spent either way. (*These meditation videos below are not part of the CBRT curriculum. CBRT participants will have access to educational videos and guided meditation audios through the Nalanda Institute student website.)
You are welcome to engage and explore with this mindful inquiry with your eyes open, closed or some time spent either way. (*These meditation videos below are not part of the CBRT curriculum. CBRT participants will have access to educational videos and guided meditation audios through the Nalanda Institute student website.)
