Healing from Anxiety: A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Approach

As we continue to navigate a world impacted by political strife, climate change, global conflict, and public health concerns, stirring fear and anxiety in all forms, the healing arts of the Buddha-Dharma and Western psychology offer timely and effective perspectives and practices. In this program, we’ll explore a Buddhist and psychodynamic understanding of anxiety, its causes, and personal symptoms. Together we’ll examine a contemplative response to this powerful form of suffering as a way to find meaning, recover, and offer support to those who experience anxiety and its many ripple effects.

With a focus on interpersonal dynamics and collective triggers, we will learn about key relational and developmental experiences that generate feelings and behaviors associated with anxiety. We will also explore how these early dynamics can inform and intensify anxiety during these stressful times, and how they can be worked through in healing relationships. This program will be helpful to clinicians interested in treating anxiety through the clinical applications of Buddhist psychology and contemplative practice, and meditation instructors and practitioners of all experience levels.