The Hero's Journey: A Path to Transformation and Healing

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A weekend workshop to explore how Buddhism and Psychotherapy can jointly empower us to transform obstacles into resources for developing wisdom, awareness and joy.

Co-facilitated by:
Phagyab Rinpoche   &   Barbara A. Graham, MA, LMFT

Phagyab Rinpoche was born in Tibet and raised as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama in the Gelugpa tradition. Following the Chinese occupation, he was forced to escape into exile during which he suffered a life-threatening injury. Rinpoche used the power of his meditation practice to heal himself.  Now a ranking Lama, he is a living example of how to open our hearts and heal ourselves both physically and emotionally through compassion, humor and grace.

"Phagyab Rinpoche is a fine person and an accomplished scholar-meditator whose gentle nature and clear insights make him an excellent spiritual adviser and director of studies and self-discovery. A highly respected incarnate lama from Eastern Tibet, Rinpoche was trained at leading Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and offers a wealth of wisdom and compassion that genuinely point the way to transformational healing. I recommend him most highly as a person and a teacher."---Prof. Robert Thurman, Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.

Barbara A. Graham, MA, LMFT, is a life-long meditator and student of consciousness who has trained with leading figures in the human potential movement including Joseph Campbell, Dick Price, Robert Hall and Moshe Feldenkrais. Over the past twenty-five years, she has been teaching her clients how to engage in the process of relationship as a vehicle for psychological and spiritual healing.  Through her family's intimate and historic connections with Tibet, dating from 1937, many priceless treasures of Tibetan teaching and culture have been saved from destruction. Barbara has worked closely with the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley, and the Tibetan community in exile. She continues to collaborate with Tibetan Buddhist scholars and spiritual teachers world-wide.

Location:
Ocean Song, Occidental, CA a beautiful retreat facility cresting the hills of West Sonoma County. For a list of suggested lodging, please visit our website. Camping is available on the grounds.

Date:
Friday April 20th, 7:00 PM - Sunday April 22nd, 4:00 PM
Workshop fees includes Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday lunch and snacks. Scholarships are available.

For more information, please visit: www.illuminations.org

Sponsored by the Helen Graham Park Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting collaboration between the modern sciences and the wisdom traditions of the world to help humanity meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Scholarship Registration (limited to four spaces): $150

Please email or call for scholarship registrations

Early Registration (before March 28th): $250

Registration: $300