100. Anukampa Practice Program
A comprehensive practice program designed to help establish, broaden, and deepen personal practice through an unfolding series of spiritual themes. The program centers on ten core human needs or spiritual themes (meaning, purpose, autonomy, agency, identity, dignity, community, kinship, healing, and reconciliation) paired with the ten Buddhist perfections (paramis). These themes are organized within five broader emotional categories: Inspiration, Freedom, Confidence, Love, and Wholeness. The program offers various optional components including reading and writing assignments, small group meetings, and communication practices based in deep, reflective, empathetic listening.

110. Introduction to Buddhist Chaplaincy
This comprehensive training program introduces participants to the field of Buddhist spiritual care, combining academic engagement with rigorous spiritual development. Participants learn essential chaplaincy skills including establishing spiritual-care relationships, providing care during grief and loss, appropriate use of self in caregiving, and understanding ritual and prayer. The program also covers how key Buddhist practices, including compassion, the paramis, mindfulness, the Four Noble Truths, and Sangha, relate to spiritual care. Graduates are well-prepared for professional chaplaincy training or volunteer spiritual care roles.

120. Buddhist Environmental Chaplaincy Training
his program offers specialized Buddhist training in the wisdom and skills needed to be an environmental chaplain, someone who supports people in developing healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationships with each other and the natural world. The training includes experience-based activities and contemplative practices to deepen participants’ own relationships with nature, while providing skills for spiritual caregiving to help others reconnect with nature and face contemporary socio-environmental crises with wisdom and compassion. Areas covered include environmentally-based spiritual care, histories of environmental movements, eco-chaplaincy skills, nature-based practices and rituals, and conflict resolution.

130. Peace Chaplaincy

150. Middle Length Discourses Course
This comprehensive course offers a deeper appreciation and understanding of the Majjhima Nikāya, one of the most important collections of the Buddha’s teachings in the Pāli Canon. The course covers approximately 50 suttas organized thematically rather than sequentially, taking students on a journey through essential topics including relating to the teachings, faith, the path, karma, rebirth, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom, and nibbāna. Each class includes video introductions, study guides, audio lectures, Q&A sessions, and reflection questions. The course provides both practitioners and scholars with access to early Buddhism’s most comprehensive meditation instructions and powerful teachings within their rich narrative contexts.

210. Sila: The Equivalence of Ethics and Enlightenment Program
In Buddhism, ethics and awakening are inseparable. This program allows practitioners to delve into the ethical teachings of our Buddhist tradition within a supportive community. Participants explore how the Buddha’s path to awakening is ethical, awakening itself is ethical, and the awakened life is ethical. The program includes study and discussion of core principles of Buddhist ethics through required readings and reflective writing.

220. Deepening Meditation Program
This program gives practitioners the opportunity to delve deeper into meditation practice and the Buddhist teachings on meditation. The focus is on understanding the different attentional factors involved in mindfulness, insight, and concentration meditation. Participants explore the supports and challenges to meditation practice, as well as the experiences and insights emphasized in traditional Vipassana practice.

230. Entering the Stream Program
This program provides practitioners an opportunity to explore some of the deeper teachings of our Buddhist tradition in a community of other committed practitioners. Core principles and insights important in the Buddha’s teachings are examined and discussed, including aspects of liberation and awakening. The program includes required readings and reflective writing to deepen understanding and personal application.