Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science

Year Founded: 2005

Model of Therapy: Contemplative Psychotherapy

Available training types: Local Training (New York), Distance Training, Satellite Training (Toronto, Barcelona)

The Nalanda Institute’s Certificate Program in Contemplative Psychotherapy combines mindfulness and compassion-based Buddhist psychology and meditation with the contemporary fields of neuroscience, psychotherapy, and health psychology. This intensive two-year program trains educators, caregivers, coaches, therapists, and other health care professionals. Year One of the program consists of training in mindfulness-based psychotherapy, and Year Two focuses on compassion-based psychotherapy. The Nalanda teaching tradition allows participants to choose to enter either year.

About the Nalanda Institute:

A non-profit community founded by Dr. Joseph Loizzo, the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science infuses early traditions of contemplative science into more contemporary cultural traditions and ways of life, working toward the goal of a sustainable future. Nalanda’s system of contemplative and active insights and methods, called the gradual path, has been tailored from methods developed and evolved at Nalanda University in ancient India and preserved in Tibet to better fit life in the modern world.