ABOUT US
MISSION
Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an educational training committed to utilizing the experience of emotion as a path for developing the happiness of being for ourselves and in relationship to others.
By integrating the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, current emotion research, and contemplative practices, CEB provides a secular platform for transformation.
With the tools of CEB, we can draw upon our human capacity to wisely and compassionately actualize individual and collective well-being and reform a wholesome relationship with the planet.
VALUES
The landscape of secular practices has evolved in the more than 20 years since CEB was first conceived with myriad offerings available from all corners of the globe. The consciousness around the appropriation and colonization of contemplative practices has also evolved. CEB as an organization, movement, and collective of teachers is committed to ongoing work to dismantle both internalized and external structures of oppression and inequality, and to standing with the BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) movement of transformation. As the founders and the majority of the teachers of CEB are white identified and socialized, we are dedicating ourselves to the work of examining and undoing the unconscious bias and internalized racism that invisibly rises up through the privileges of our positionality. Needless to say, this work is ongoing and we are evolving our offerings and our admissions and scholarship criteria to reflect these values we aspire to uphold.
Amid the marketplace of mindfulness practices our aspiration is to hold true to the core ethics that motivated this training Accessibility, Depth, Transformation.
