Metta Knowledge For Peace, LLC

consulting

MettaKnowledge for Peace is concerned with the health and well being of those who work to serve and protect those in need.  My research and teaching for over 20 years has been focused on how groups respond to individual and collective trauma and how to heal.  My expertise draws on the best of the western sciences and social sciences and merges them with the contemplative and healing practices from Buddhism and the new shamanism, also known as earth spirituality.

Program topics include:

• Exploring Diversity with Kindness: Through the development of inner capacities for kindness and compassion, we learn how to better understand and handle tensions around identity in our workplace, including race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion.
• The Art of Surviving Compassion Fatigue: We explore the risks of losing heart in a violent world and working in settings dealing with human and animal suffering and refuel our passion and zest for our work and life.
• Expressing Spirituality Respectfully in the 21st Century Workplace:  We participate in an experiential dialogue about faith, God, Spirit, and belief and how we manifest our deepest values in our workplace without imposing them on others.

MettaKnowledge for Peace seeks to bring  metta (kindness) and knowledge together in a radically transformative format.

Resources

• Research

  MettaKnowledge for Peace undertakes research and writing in these and related topics tailored to the interests and needs of your organization:  Vicarious Trauma and its relationship to Secondary Traumatic Stress, compassion fatigue, and PTSD; An overview of the past decade of scientific research on the effects of meditation on health and wellbeing; The application of the new shamanism and earth spirituality and ways of seeing in mainstream settings.; How violence and suffering affects our spirituality in positive and negative ways; Issues of identity and diversity in the world and workplace.

• Program Packages for Organizations and Institutions

  MettaKnowledge for Peace offers organizations and institutions on-site trainings for staff and faculty to explore several challenging areas in today’s workplace.  Tools and knowledge from the western sciences, social sciences, and contemplative practices from a variety of spiritual traditions deepen insight and open the heart. An institutional package includes up to 2 day-long trainings, an evening lecture and a half hour personal processing session with workshop participants who wish to go deeper.