CEB
TEACHER
TRAINING
ANNOUNCING CEBTT 2025
North America
To learn more about the practices and content of our year long Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training click HERE to view the recorded online information session.
In the year-long training you will become certified to teach Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB), a 42 hour evidenced-based, emotion-focused program that has been delivered in health care, education, corporate, coaching and legal systems globally.
Experiential: The year long teacher training includes two week long immersive retreats. Online are monthly webinars, written emotion reflections, guided meditation practices, and facilitated small group teaching practice.
Connected: Each co-hort is less than 30 people per year making the experience close and connected.
Wise: The lead teachers bring in depth expertise alongside a faculty network with distinctive backgrounds and expertise.
Resourced: Our teacher’s manual is a rich collection of materials to lead a full 42 hour course with hour by hour lesson plans, meditation scripts, group activities, emotion mapping worksheets, and prompts for written reflections.
BACKGROUND
The Cultivating Emotional Balance training was sparked during a meeting between behavioral scientists, a neuroscientist, a monk, a philosopher, and the Dalai Lama in 2000, as a new approach to understanding our emotional lives. Combining contemporary emotion based scientific research with contemplative practices and psychology drawn from Buddhism, the Cultivating Emotional Balance training gives participants new tools to use emotion as a path for transformation. In this year-long training, learn how to incorporate and support others in the key components of CEB.
- Understanding each emotion from the inside out
- From inside the body to speech and action
- Recognizing and working with emotional triggers and responses
- Identifying our emotion fueled perceptions that distort the way we see the world and respond with reactivity
- Deepening awareness and stabilizing attention through meditation
- Increasing compassion for self and othersCultivating clear values and ethics that foster mental balance
WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT CEB?
There are many wonderful trainings to choose from to deepen a practice of mindfulness and compassion.
CEB is unique in two primary ways: An intensive focus on understanding and applying specific antidotes to individual emotions. And an integrative contemplative science approach- e.g using ( not just mentioning) cutting edge rigorous scientific research on embodiment, communication, cognition, consciousness to identify our emotional experiences alongside a developmental secular approach to meditation which follows up from contemporary mindfulness.
The contemplative practices are drawn from Tibetan Buddhism and constitute an intensive course of meditation practice that is distinct from the insight meditation tradition which supports the majority of mindfulness practice. These practices include in depth training for attention through breath, body, and mind. Inquiry practices that help us get to know the very root of our emotions. And the application of specific heart practices to work with anger, fear, joy, sadness, contempt, shame, guilt, and disgust. The science of emotions is covered in depth from the communication of our facial expression to the physiological signals in our body.
CEB teachers are trained in principles and practices of psychological and contemplative studies and establish a basic level of training to be able to teach CEB methodology to the general public. The certified practitioner training incorporates learning objectives in four areas:
- Practitioner Skills—Developing skills for organizing and presenting an effective CEB course or methodology for use in your current profession, CEB classes to the general public or for personal edification.
- Contemplative Practice—Gain confidence in practicing and leading the matrix of meditations offered in CEB: the cultivation of attention skills, the four virtues of the heart, and contemplative inquiry.
- Emotional Skills–In depth learning on the families and functions of emotions. Exploring genuine well-being and psychological theories and practices pertaining to emotional balance.
- Integration—Synthesizing emotional skills and contemplative practice into a modality for inspiring personal transformation.
FACULTY
CEBTT North America will be taught by Dr. Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, Ryan Redman, MA and Tenzin Chogkyi MS, with assistance from Lani Potts, MA.
FORMAT
The course is delivered via in-person and online sessions. There are daily meditations and emotion reflections, monthly check-ins and two one-week long in-person retreats. See below for additional details:
- Week long meditation and emotion skills retreats month one and month six. (partial silence partial integration with group work)
- Monthly full group webinar, online reading and reflection from the teaching manual, small group meditation teaching groups
- Daily self-paced meditation
PREREQUISITES
It is highly recommended that applicants are already teachers and have a background in psychology, social work or education, coaching, and experience in meditation. Applicants should also possess a strong motivation for developing the necessary skills to serve the welfare of others.
Completion of a CEB course (minimum 12-16 hrs.) required before first CEBTT retreat.
SCHEDULING AND COSTS
Retreat Dates
Coming in 2024. Dates TBD
Costs
The year long training cost covers teaching and course materials and does not include accommodations and food for the two week-long retreats.
- Cost TBD
Application
Application will be available Fall 2023
For more info or questions email: ceb.course@cultivatingemotionalbalance.org
