Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.
Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.
Please note: On Wednesday September 20, online registration may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes while system maintenance is performed. If the 'Register Now' page does not load, please wait about 15 minutes and try again.
Our emotions are essential to our survival. Like breathing, we do not choose to feel our emotions – we automatically emote in response to the challenges and opportunities of life. While emotions are vital to our human existence, emotional reactions can become the source of interpersonal challenges in our lives. Often, these strong emotional reactions are triggered from far below the surface of conscious thought.
Automatic reaction is not our only option, however. We can learn to bring conscious awareness to our emotions, and train our minds to respond to difficult emotions in constructive ways. Even our pleasant emotions can be enhanced by conscious awareness. We can savor the good and feel appreciation, rather than grasp for joy.
In developing emotional awareness, we can increase our ability to hold the full range of our human experience with compassion and curiosity.
Throughout this experiential workshop, we will offer the foundational science and practice of emotional awareness, woven together with an experience of heart-opening and interactive contemplative art. We will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, emotion research, and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation.
Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Within our sweet container, we will explore:
As we map our emotions, we may uncover the stories underlying our triggers, perceptions, and responses. These stories are often humblingly familiar. In their sharing, it is possible to understand and feel the interconnection of emotions, interconnection with each other, and forge new narratives to make meaning with our emotional lives.
Join us for this weekend of transformative exploration and practice.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a contemplative social scientist, teacher, and scholar focusing on emotional awareness, empathy, meditation, and interventions to alleviate burnout and promote well-being. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. She did her MSW and PhD at UC Berkeley and post doctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative medicine. Eve is the well-being Lead at Apple, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and an instructor with the Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Science.
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Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Teague is a practitioner of the world’s leading, secular stress reduction and emotional balance meditation programs, bringing modern science together with ancient wisdom and experiential art.
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Our emotions are essential to our survival. Like breathing, we do not choose to feel our emotions – we automatically emote in response to the challenges and opportunities of life. While emotions are vital to our human existence, emotional reactions can become the source of interpersonal challenges in our lives. Often, these strong emotional reactions are triggered from far below the surface of conscious thought.
Automatic reaction is not our only option, however. We can learn to bring conscious awareness to our emotions, and train our minds to respond to difficult emotions in constructive ways. Even our pleasant emotions can be enhanced by conscious awareness. We can savor the good and feel appreciation, rather than grasp for joy.
In developing emotional awareness, we can increase our ability to hold the full range of our human experience with compassion and curiosity.
Throughout this experiential workshop, we will offer the foundational science and practice of emotional awareness, woven together with an experience of heart-opening and interactive contemplative art. We will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, emotion research, and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation.
Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Within our sweet container, we will explore:
As we map our emotions, we may uncover the stories underlying our triggers, perceptions, and responses. These stories are often humblingly familiar. In their sharing, it is possible to understand and feel the interconnection of emotions, interconnection with each other, and forge new narratives to make meaning with our emotional lives.
Join us for this weekend of transformative exploration and practice.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a contemplative social scientist, teacher, and scholar focusing on emotional awareness, empathy, meditation, and interventions to alleviate burnout and promote well-being. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. She did her MSW and PhD at UC Berkeley and post doctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative medicine. Eve is the well-being Lead at Apple, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and an instructor with the Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Science.
Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Teague is a practitioner of the world’s leading, secular stress reduction and emotional balance meditation programs, bringing modern science together with ancient wisdom and experiential art.
Our emotions are essential to our survival. Like breathing, we do not choose to feel our emotions – we automatically emote in response to the challenges and opportunities of life. While emotions are vital to our human existence, emotional reactions can become the source of interpersonal challenges in our lives. Often, these strong emotional reactions are triggered from far below the surface of conscious thought.
Automatic reaction is not our only option, however. We can learn to bring conscious awareness to our emotions, and train our minds to respond to difficult emotions in constructive ways. Even our pleasant emotions can be enhanced by conscious awareness. We can savor the good and feel appreciation, rather than grasp for joy.
In developing emotional awareness, we can increase our ability to hold the full range of our human experience with compassion and curiosity.
Throughout this experiential workshop, we will offer the foundational science and practice of emotional awareness, woven together with an experience of heart-opening and interactive contemplative art. We will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, emotion research, and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation.
Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Within our sweet container, we will explore:
As we map our emotions, we may uncover the stories underlying our triggers, perceptions, and responses. These stories are often humblingly familiar. In their sharing, it is possible to understand and feel the interconnection of emotions, interconnection with each other, and forge new narratives to make meaning with our emotional lives.
Join us for this weekend of transformative exploration and practice.
March 3–6, 2023
This program is full. Find another.
Applications are closed.
Applications are closed.
Our emotions are essential to our survival. Like breathing, we do not choose to feel our emotions – we automatically emote in response to the challenges and opportunities of life. While emotions are vital to our human existence, emotional reactions can become the source of interpersonal challenges in our lives. Often, these strong emotional reactions are triggered from far below the surface of conscious thought.
Automatic reaction is not our only option, however. We can learn to bring conscious awareness to our emotions, and train our minds to respond to difficult emotions in constructive ways. Even our pleasant emotions can be enhanced by conscious awareness. We can savor the good and feel appreciation, rather than grasp for joy.
In developing emotional awareness, we can increase our ability to hold the full range of our human experience with compassion and curiosity.
Throughout this experiential workshop, we will offer the foundational science and practice of emotional awareness, woven together with an experience of heart-opening and interactive contemplative art. We will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, emotion research, and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation.
Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Within our sweet container, we will explore:
As we map our emotions, we may uncover the stories underlying our triggers, perceptions, and responses. These stories are often humblingly familiar. In their sharing, it is possible to understand and feel the interconnection of emotions, interconnection with each other, and forge new narratives to make meaning with our emotional lives.
Join us for this weekend of transformative exploration and practice.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a contemplative social scientist, teacher, and scholar focusing on emotional awareness, empathy, meditation, and interventions to alleviate burnout and promote well-being. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. She did her MSW and PhD at UC Berkeley and post doctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative medicine. Eve is the well-being Lead at Apple, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and an instructor with the Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Science.
Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Teague is a practitioner of the world’s leading, secular stress reduction and emotional balance meditation programs, bringing modern science together with ancient wisdom and experiential art.
Please note: On Wednesday September 20, online registration may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes while system maintenance is performed. If the 'Register Now' page does not load, please wait about 15 minutes and try again.
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Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.
Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
March 3–6, 2023
This program is full. Find another.
Applications are closed.
Applications are closed.
Our emotions are essential to our survival. Like breathing, we do not choose to feel our emotions – we automatically emote in response to the challenges and opportunities of life. While emotions are vital to our human existence, emotional reactions can become the source of interpersonal challenges in our lives. Often, these strong emotional reactions are triggered from far below the surface of conscious thought.
Automatic reaction is not our only option, however. We can learn to bring conscious awareness to our emotions, and train our minds to respond to difficult emotions in constructive ways. Even our pleasant emotions can be enhanced by conscious awareness. We can savor the good and feel appreciation, rather than grasp for joy.
In developing emotional awareness, we can increase our ability to hold the full range of our human experience with compassion and curiosity.
Throughout this experiential workshop, we will offer the foundational science and practice of emotional awareness, woven together with an experience of heart-opening and interactive contemplative art. We will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, emotion research, and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation.
Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Within our sweet container, we will explore:
As we map our emotions, we may uncover the stories underlying our triggers, perceptions, and responses. These stories are often humblingly familiar. In their sharing, it is possible to understand and feel the interconnection of emotions, interconnection with each other, and forge new narratives to make meaning with our emotional lives.
Join us for this weekend of transformative exploration and practice.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a contemplative social scientist, teacher, and scholar focusing on emotional awareness, empathy, meditation, and interventions to alleviate burnout and promote well-being. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. She did her MSW and PhD at UC Berkeley and post doctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative medicine. Eve is the well-being Lead at Apple, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and an instructor with the Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Science.
Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Teague is a practitioner of the world’s leading, secular stress reduction and emotional balance meditation programs, bringing modern science together with ancient wisdom and experiential art.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.
Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.
Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.