Online: James Baraz Awakening Joy 2.0 Course
February 2, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - June 21, 2016 @ 9:00 pm
Join the James Baraz Awakening Joy 2.0: Awakening the Heart in February!
A 5-month Course in Loving-kindness and Compassion
Awakening Joy Offers More Than Just Useful Information on Happiness
Based on time-tested principles drawn from Buddhist philosophy and wisdom, the course presents actual practices that open the heart as well as access aliveness and well-being.
Time-tested Awareness Practices Build Healthier Habits and Beliefs
Awakening Joy consciously cultivates different qualities that directly lead to opening the heart and mind.
5-Month Course with 10 Themes, One Every 2 Weeks:
Taught by James Baraz
Renowned Guest Speakers
Internet Access for All Registrants, starting the 2nd week of February
Optional Onsite Add-On in Berkeley, CA, starting Feb. 2
Video and Audio Recordings + Written Materials Available until End of Year
The onsite classes in Berkeley are video and audio recorded and available on the Internet a week later.
Included is a not-to-be-missed, insightful practice letter from the teacher.
The classes are NOT viewed as a live feed.
Awakening Joy has been celebrated in O Magazine and Bill Gates’ Summer Reading List.
James Baraz is the creator and teacher of the Awakening Joy course (since 2003). He has been a meditation teacher since 1978 and he leads retreats, workshops and classes in US and abroad. James is also co-author of the book Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness. In this book, he reveals his 10-step program, based on the curriculum of his popular “Awakening Joy” course, for how we can reorient our minds away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives.
Learn more about Awakening Joy 2.0—click here.
In addition to James’ presentation of the course themes, each session will feature an inspiring guest speaker representing timeless wisdom and cutting-edge scientific insights about awakening joy in one’s life. Some of the guest presenters for this course include:
- Anam Thubten Rinpoche – Author of No Self, No Problem
- Frank Ostaseski – Founder of the Metta Institute and Zen Hospice Project
- Charles Garfield, PhD – Author, Psychology Professor, and Founder of Shanti
- Cassandra Vieten, PhD – CEO of Institute of Noetic Sciences & Scientist Mind-Body Medicine Research Group
and others.
See the complete list of guest presenters here.
The course offers 22 CEUs for MFTs, LCSWs, Educational Psychologists and Professional Clinical Counselors.