About the Sessions
Join Janna Weiss on Sundays for a new guided meditation course!
The Mindful Heart course is inspired by the Creating Compassionate Cultures program (“CCC”) by Pam Cayton, and developed by the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom.
Grounded in three core pathways of learning: Knowledge, Strength, and Compassion. These pathways guide you towards a happier, more meaningful life by fostering inner growth and a warmer connection with others.
Designed to help you develop a deeper understanding of how the mind works. The aim is to gradually let go of destructive patterns of thought and behaviour while cultivating a healthy sense of self-confidence and a deep, compassionate connection with others.
You are invited to reflect on your attitudes, perceptions, and emotional patterns. By exploring the workings of our own minds and the nature of our interdependence with others and the world around us, we begin to see how deeply connected our inner and outer realities truly are.
We examine both logical and scientific perspectives on the nature of the self and our relationships with others.
Why joining
Are you keen to work on your well-being and want to connect with others trying to make their life a little better for themselves and those around them?
Each gathering begins with a calming meditation to fully arrive, followed by an inspiring discussion on a way of being that enriches your everyday life such as interconnection, empathy, compassion… We then dive into a focused meditation designed to help you embrace that way of being fully.
Meet Janna every Sunday at 1:30–3:30pm EST/EDT and start your week feeling refreshed, connected, and inspired. Drop in to any, or attend all!
Open to all, beginners and experienced students alike!
Schedule and Themes
The course is delivered in 6 sessions:-
- Session 1: The Pursuit of Happiness and Understanding How Things Exist
- Session 2: Developing Healthy Self-Confidence and Compassion – Opening the Heart
- Session 3: Mindfulness, Reflection and Critical Thinking and Mindful Intention: What do I really want?
- Session 4: Interconnection and Embracing Change
- Session 5: Perception and Transforming Harmful Emotions
- Session 6: Empathy and Cultivating Compassion
How to Register and Join
These sessions are organized by The Shantideva Buddhist centre and are offered online on Sundays Feb 15, 22, Mar 1, 8, 22 & 29, 1:30–3:30pm EST/EDT
Note: Clocks change from Eastern Standard Time (EST)(GMT/UTC-5) to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)(GMT/UTC-4) on Sun Mar 8 at 2am. Clocks will “spring forward” one hour.
Suggested donation: $20 per session, or $108 for all 6-weeks of the course
Other offering options: free, $5, $10, $30
The suggested amount helps support teacher offerings and expenses, direct costs and rent.
For more information and to register, please visit the event page
Meet your Facilitator
Janna Weiss is a Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) trained facilitator for 16 Guidelines Levels 1 & 2 and Unlocking Your Potential, and an Empathy Circle Facilitator and Trainer. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Biological Sciences—Botany (ethnobotany). Janna is also a human rights activist and advocate for peace, for Tibet, for the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities, or those perceived to be so, and for the real rights of children and families. Janna is an acupuncturist and herbalist, and teaches mind science. Janna began studying Tibetan Buddhism with Dharma Friends of Israel in 2005. She resides in New York City.
