Intro to practice, training attention and cultivating awareness.

Overview of heart qualities: Several non-traditional ways to cultivate metta - friendliness, kindness, goodwill, including self care, relaxation body scans, breaking the negativity bias by looking for and taking in the good.

Using sati; mindfulness to re-organize perception in the service of complete view.

Overview of smadhi/mind training path factors of 8-fold path and how they lead to insight - wise effort, mindfulness and concentration. Guided meditation with labeling, deconstructing body-mind experience using labels; feel, talk, image

An overview of metta practice followed by a guided practice

Our 8-fold path of practice as the middle way leading to letting go of enchantment with the 'movies' of our minds, aka suffering.

An overview of citta from the early Buddhist tradition and the Abhidharma. The term is defined and explored. Includes guided practice.

Discussion of metta responding to pain with compassion - care, followed by guided meditation cultivating compassion.

The process of Dukkha-Sankhara is defined and explored. Understanding the Bramha-viharas as the vehicle for overcoming woundedness.

Cultivating wise effort for vipassana; mindful investigation thru "beginner's mind" curiosity.