Buddhist Psychology of Mental Transformation
Public talk with Bhikshuni Lozang Yönten
Sunday, October 29th, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Held at Althea Center, 1400 N Williams St, Denver, CO 80218
Buddhist psychology has influenced a number of psychotherapy models in the West, with popular cognitive and somatic therapies adapting Buddhist tools for working with thoughts, emotions, and being present through mindfulness.
The full spectrum of the Buddhist approach to the human experience includes a more expansive view of the mind, body and potential we have.
With many years of deep Buddhist training and teaching, and education in Western psychology, Bhikshuni Yonten will offer an afternoon chat on key aspects of Buddhist psychology and practice – including the mind’s capacity to cultivate goodness and stillness, transform our responses to difficult experiences and emotions, go beyond bias and fear, and open to complete freedom.
Suggested donation $15 - $25, no one turned away.
Sunday, October 29th, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Held at Althea Center, 1400 N Williams St, Denver, CO 80218
Buddhist psychology has influenced a number of psychotherapy models in the West, with popular cognitive and somatic therapies adapting Buddhist tools for working with thoughts, emotions, and being present through mindfulness.
The full spectrum of the Buddhist approach to the human experience includes a more expansive view of the mind, body and potential we have.
With many years of deep Buddhist training and teaching, and education in Western psychology, Bhikshuni Yonten will offer an afternoon chat on key aspects of Buddhist psychology and practice – including the mind’s capacity to cultivate goodness and stillness, transform our responses to difficult experiences and emotions, go beyond bias and fear, and open to complete freedom.
Suggested donation $15 - $25, no one turned away.
Donations can be offered now or the day of the event.
About Ven. Yönten
Ven. Yönten is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition, first taking monastic vows in 2003. She fully ordained as a bhikshuni in the Dharmaguptaka tradition in Taiwan in 2011. Buddhist since her teenage years, Ven. Yönten moved to Chenrezig Institute in Queensland, Australia when she was 19 and studied intensively under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering for seven years, completing their Buddhist studies program (including FPMT’s Basic Program as well as other advanced topics) and retreats.
She then continued to study, do retreat and offer service at Dharma centers in India and Taiwan as well as Australia and New Zealand, becoming an In-Depth Registered Teacher within the FPMT in 2012. Ven. Yönten was then the resident teacher of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia from 2012 – 2015, and then at Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity in New Zealand until 2018.
Ven. Yönten offers Buddhist classes 4-5 months a year in Israel with FPMT’s Shantideva Study Group and for a seven-year secular postgraduate program called Human Spirit, a Buddhist Psychoanalytic training program.
