Mindfulness and Lovingkindness in Relationships with David Richo, PhD

Discover the true meaning of spiritually conscious love and how we can realize and practice it.

CEU approved by the NASW. Details below.

Relationships survive best when both partners are committed to personal adult integrity and to a spiritual practice. In this workshop, we will explore how that can happen with a more spiritually conscious love. Love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present, with the five A’s of unconditional attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection and allowing others to be as they are. Love is also presence without the conditioned overlays of ego, such as judgment, fear and control—just what we let go of in mindfulness meditation. We receive love in the same way, with the five A’s and without our ego interferences. In other words, love happens best in a context of mindfulness and lovingkindness. This workshop is based on David’s books: How Be To An Adult in Relationships and When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships.

David Richo, PhD, MFT, is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California who emphasizes Jungian, transpersonal, and Buddhist perspectives in his work. David is also the author of Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side, The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them, and Everyday Commitments: Choosing a Life of Love, Realism, and Acceptance.

This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886501165) for 10 continuing education contact hours. For participants requesting CEU certificates, an additional fee of $25 will be charged.