Donald Rothberg, PhD
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Events by this speaker
September
Event Details
Dates: Friday, September 27 - Sunday, September 29, 2019; 10:00am - 5:00pm Sliding Scale: $225 - 600. Code DR3M19. 12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs,
Event Details
Dates: Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29, 2019; 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sliding Scale: $225 – 600. Code DR3M19.
12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Description:
Judgments of a reactive and often automatic nature are very strong in most of our lives, and in the dominant culture. They can distort our perceptions, make relationships with others difficult, and undermine our work in the world. In this retreat, we will explore the nature of such judgments (and their difference from non-reactive discernment) and how to transform them. We will cultivate mindfulness, inquiry, and heart practices such as lovingkindness, forgiveness, and compassion. We will also explore the somatic and social dimensions of judgments and the role of cultivating awakened qualities in transforming judgments. These tools will help us to preserve the intelligence and energy often found in judgments, using them for discernment and compassionate action, while working through judgments’ destructive and compulsive aspects, that often rest on unconscious or unexamined, limiting beliefs.
This retreat will include sitting and walking meditation, including instructions for several guided practices, talks and group discussion, and some basic movement practices, all in the context of a supportive community.
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
• Utilize mindfulness of the judgmental mind in ways that might be shared with clients;
• Incorporate perspectives on the nature of the judgmental mind, in ways that will help guide one’s practical work with both oneself and clients;
• Apply techniques to develop insight into core beliefs that generate chronic judgments;
• Utilize techniques of loving-kindness meditation that may be shared with clients;
• Develop techniques of lovingkindness focused on “difficult” people, in ways that may be useful for clients;
• Practice the application of loving-kindness as an antidote to distress related to the arising of strong negative judgments of self or other;
• Apply techniques to develop compassion that might be shared with clients;
• Apply techniques to develop forgiveness that might be shared with clients.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
General Information
Online registration for our programs is available until 12 noon of the last business day prior to the day of the event (e.g. online registration for a Monday program ends at 12 noon on the prior Friday). There is an additional $5 fee for registering at the door. If you can’t attend an event you registered for, please see our Cancellation Policy.
Visit our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing to find or offer a ride.
Volunteer/Work Exchange opportunities, as well as full or partial Scholarships, may be available for this program. For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteering@spiritrock.org.
Even if you have been to Spirit Rock before, please review our Non-Residential Programs FAQ for useful information about what to wear, what to bring, how to get here, and more.
Continuing Education
This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA or BRN approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC). The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 12 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association..
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
Attendance Requirements:
– Register and pay for CE credits before the program begins.
– Sign-in at the CE table within 15 minutes of the start of the program, every day;
– Stay until the end of the program, every day;
– Sign out at the end of the program, every day.
– Partial credit for partial attendance is not permissible by Board regulations. Complete attendance is required to be eligible for CE credit.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered. For more information about CE credit at Spirit Rock, please visit the CE Credit information page.
Cancellation Policy:
If you are unable to attend a program, or fulfill the attendance requirements for CE credit, you may offer your CE credit fee as a donation to Spirit Rock, or you may request a credit to be used towards a future non-residential program. If you would like a credit, you must cancel by 4:00pm at least two business days prior to the program. For more information, please see our Cancellation Policy for Non-Residential Programs.
Teacher(s)
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
View Donald's upcoming programs or profile.
November
Event Details
Dates: Saturday, November 30 - Sunday, December 1, 2019; 10:00am - 5:00pm Sliding Scale: $150 - 400. Code DR4M19. 12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs,
Event Details
Dates: Saturday, November 30 – Sunday, December 1, 2019; 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sliding Scale: $150 – 400. Code DR4M19.
12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Description:
The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, are the places of the open, awakened heart. In this retreat, we will learn the formal practices of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, and offer guidance for bringing these practices into daily life. All of these practices strengthen self-confidence, self-acceptance, generosity of spirit, and steadiness of mind and heart, revealing our fundamental kindness.
The retreat will be held in the context of silence, alternating sitting meditation and walking meditation. Core instructions in the different practices will be offered, along with talks, discussion, and brief daily guided movement sessions.
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
• Utilize techniques of loving-kindness that might be shared with clients;
• Utilize techniques of loving-kindness with a range of people, both those close to themselves, and those who are not close—particularly those who are more “neutral” and “difficult.”;
• Describe the potential effectiveness of a loving-kindness practice as an antidote to distress;
• Utilize related techniques to develop compassion;
• Utilize related techniques to develop joy and gratitude;
• Utilize related techniques to develop equanimity;
• Utilize loving-kindness and compassion in ways that might be applied in daily life and shared with clients to improve well being;
• Utilize joy and equanimity practices in ways that might be applied in daily life and shared with clients to improve well being.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
General Information
Online registration for our programs is available until 12 noon of the last business day prior to the day of the event (e.g. online registration for a Monday program ends at 12 noon on the prior Friday). There is an additional $5 fee for registering at the door. If you can’t attend an event you registered for, please see our Cancellation Policy.
Visit our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing to find or offer a ride.
Volunteer/Work Exchange opportunities, as well as full or partial Scholarships, may be available for this program. For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteering@spiritrock.org.
Even if you have been to Spirit Rock before, please review our Non-Residential Programs FAQ for useful information about what to wear, what to bring, how to get here, and more.
Continuing Education
This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA or BRN approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC). The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 12 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association..
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
Attendance Requirements:
– Register and pay for CE credits before the program begins.
– Sign-in at the CE table within 15 minutes of the start of the program, both days;
– Stay until the end of the program, both days;
– Sign out at the end of the program, both days.
– Partial credit for partial attendance is not permissible by Board regulations. Complete attendance is required to be eligible for CE credit.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered. For more information about CE credit at Spirit Rock, please visit the CE Credit information page.
Cancellation Policy:
If you are unable to attend a program, or fulfill the attendance requirements for CE credit, you may offer your CE credit fee as a donation to Spirit Rock, or you may request a credit to be used towards a future non-residential program. If you would like a credit, you must cancel by 4:00pm at least two business days prior to the program. For more information, please see our Cancellation Policy for Non-Residential Programs.
Teacher(s)
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
View Donald's upcoming programs or profile.
December
Event Details
Dates: Saturday, November 30 - Sunday, December 1, 2019; 10:00am - 5:00pm Sliding Scale: $150 - 400. Code DR4M19. 12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs,
Event Details
Dates: Saturday, November 30 – Sunday, December 1, 2019; 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sliding Scale: $150 – 400. Code DR4M19.
12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Description:
The Divine Abodes (Brahmaviharas) of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, are the places of the open, awakened heart. In this retreat, we will learn the formal practices of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, and offer guidance for bringing these practices into daily life. All of these practices strengthen self-confidence, self-acceptance, generosity of spirit, and steadiness of mind and heart, revealing our fundamental kindness.
The retreat will be held in the context of silence, alternating sitting meditation and walking meditation. Core instructions in the different practices will be offered, along with talks, discussion, and brief daily guided movement sessions.
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
• Utilize techniques of loving-kindness that might be shared with clients;
• Utilize techniques of loving-kindness with a range of people, both those close to themselves, and those who are not close—particularly those who are more “neutral” and “difficult.”;
• Describe the potential effectiveness of a loving-kindness practice as an antidote to distress;
• Utilize related techniques to develop compassion;
• Utilize related techniques to develop joy and gratitude;
• Utilize related techniques to develop equanimity;
• Utilize loving-kindness and compassion in ways that might be applied in daily life and shared with clients to improve well being;
• Utilize joy and equanimity practices in ways that might be applied in daily life and shared with clients to improve well being.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
General Information
Online registration for our programs is available until 12 noon of the last business day prior to the day of the event (e.g. online registration for a Monday program ends at 12 noon on the prior Friday). There is an additional $5 fee for registering at the door. If you can’t attend an event you registered for, please see our Cancellation Policy.
Visit our Online Bulletin Board for Ride Sharing to find or offer a ride.
Volunteer/Work Exchange opportunities, as well as full or partial Scholarships, may be available for this program. For more information, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteering@spiritrock.org.
Even if you have been to Spirit Rock before, please review our Non-Residential Programs FAQ for useful information about what to wear, what to bring, how to get here, and more.
Continuing Education
This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA or BRN approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC). The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 12 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association..
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
Attendance Requirements:
– Register and pay for CE credits before the program begins.
– Sign-in at the CE table within 15 minutes of the start of the program, both days;
– Stay until the end of the program, both days;
– Sign out at the end of the program, both days.
– Partial credit for partial attendance is not permissible by Board regulations. Complete attendance is required to be eligible for CE credit.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered. For more information about CE credit at Spirit Rock, please visit the CE Credit information page.
Cancellation Policy:
If you are unable to attend a program, or fulfill the attendance requirements for CE credit, you may offer your CE credit fee as a donation to Spirit Rock, or you may request a credit to be used towards a future non-residential program. If you would like a credit, you must cancel by 4:00pm at least two business days prior to the program. For more information, please see our Cancellation Policy for Non-Residential Programs.
Teacher(s)
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
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Event Details
Teacher(s): Donald Rothberg, PhD. For the schedule of teachers, click here. Sliding Scale: $0 - 108. Code 51ML19. PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come!
Event Details
Teacher(s): Donald Rothberg, PhD. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $0 – 108. Code 51ML19.
PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.
Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.
Now in its 34th year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.
If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.
View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...
Teacher(s)
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
View Donald's upcoming programs or profile.
January
Event Details
Dates: Monday, January 13, 3:00pm - Monday, January 20, 11:30am; 7 nights. Sliding Scale: $1900 - $850, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 328R20. 14 CE credits available
Event Details
Dates: Monday, January 13, 3:00pm – Monday, January 20, 11:30am; 7 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1900 – $850, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 328R20.
14 CE credits available for $140, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Will open for registration on 9/11/19.
Retreat Description:
Metta, or loving-kindness, practice is the cultivation of the intention of benevolence as the orientation of our heart and mind. It is also a path to wisdom. We develop our capacity for metta through meditation (which is practiced steadfastly on retreat) in order for it to manifest in an ongoing way in our daily lives.
Financial assistance is available for all Spirit Rock residential retreats. Our scholarship rate is $40/night and available for all those with financial hardship with special funds allocated to People of Color (POC), folks with serious medical conditions, and young adults (age 18-26). Scholarship funding is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarships are budgeted per retreat and because they are in high demand, can run out quickly. We encourage you to register for a retreat as close as possible to the registration opening date (lotteries are an exception).
- Incorporate a lovingkindness practice to bring more warmth, kindness, and balance into caring for patients and clients;
- Utilize a lovingkindness practice to bring more concentration on developing a caring way of being with patients and client
- Describe the potential effectiveness of a lovingkindness practice as an antidote to distress
- Incorporate a lovingkindness practice, in working with or in preparation for clients, to counter the stresses of the workplace environment, in ways that may reduce stress
- Describe a lovingkindness practice to patients or clients to support their well-being and counter challenging situations;
- Describe techniques to cultivate compassion, that may be used to prevent compassion fatigue;
- Describe practices to cultivate forgiveness, for self or others, that may be used to relieve the stresses of working in the health care field;
- Incorporate lovingkindness and compassion practices when working with clients or patients to combat reactive mind states
- Describe how to shift inner self-talk from self-criticism to self-care and self-compassion;
- Describe how a self-compassion break may be used to improve patient care and prevent compassion fatigue and care-giver burnout;
- Utilize a lovingkindness practice for working with difficult clients/patients or co-workers.
General Information
Online Bulletin Board for Ridesharing
Also remember that the cost above is priced as a sliding scale. Please pay at the highest level of the sliding scale that you can afford. This allows others who need to pay less the opportunity to attend. Fee is for room and board. Teaching and staffing of the retreats is by donation at the end of the retreat. For more information, see Retreat FAQ.
Continuing Education
This program offers 14 CE credits for $140 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. If you have a different license and are interested in CE credit, please check with your licensing board to see if credits from APA or BRN approved providers are accepted.
Continuing Education credit is co-sponsored by Spirit Rock and the Spiritual Competency Resource Center.
– CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC). The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
– Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 14 contact hours.
– The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association..
– The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.
Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation.
Attendance Requirements:
– Register for CE credits before the retreat begins.
– Sign-in to all required sessions within 5-minutes of the start of each session. The list of required sessions will be available at the beginning of the retreat. Please Note: You may need to leave the meditation hall between sessions to sign in the next session. It is the participant’s responsibility to remember to attend and sign in to each required session.
– Turn in evaluation and pick up certificate after last session.
– There is no required session on the final day of the retreat.
– Partial credit is not permissible by Board regulations.
CE Credit Attendance Required Sessions
Jan 13
– 7:30-8:30 – Evening Dharma Talk, Precepts & Guided Meditation–
Jan 14 – 19
– 9 – 9:30am – Morning Guided Meditation with Instructions, & Q&A
– 4 – 4:45pm – Brahmavihara Practice
– 7:35 – 8:30 – Dharma Talk
Jan 20: No CE Credit sessions
+ Individual and group teacher check-ins
Cancellation Policy:
Refunds are available for residential retreat CE fees. If you would like a refund for your CE fee, you must cancel at least two (2) weeks prior to the event. If you contact us less than two weeks prior to the retreat, you will receive a partial refund; a $50 processing fee will be charged. Please contact the Retreat Registrar at: retreats@spiritrock.org.
For more information about CE credits at Spirit Rock, please see our CE Credit information page
Teacher(s)
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Beth Sternlieb
Beth Sternlieb
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
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Melvin Escobar
Melvin Escobar
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