About this live event

Learning Objectives

• Explain the difference between early Buddhism, as a meditative and contemplative practice, and Buddhism as a religious spiritual practice.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the mechanism linking the mind and the body, thus able to fluidly move between affecting the mind through the body and visa-versa.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the links between mindfulness/sati meditation techniques with behavior/sila and wisdom, vipassana/insight.

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Debra Kawahara

  Executive Director of the Illumination of Mindfulness Institute

  Dr. Debra M. Kawahara is the Executive Director of the Illumination of Mindfulness Institute, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Distinguished Professor in the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and the 2025 President of the American Psychological Association. She is a widely published multicultural feminist scholar whose work centers on intersectionality, Buddhist psychotherapy, women’s issues, and the application of multicultural and feminist values and social justice principles. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as the Asian American Psychological Association.

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  Dr. Liang Tien

  Dr. Tien holds a Psy.D. from the University of Denver, a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. She was a founding faculty at Antioch University Seattle’s Psy.D. program and the program director and core faculty of the Psy.D. program at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, in Hong Kong. In addition to her work in Buddhist psychotherapy, Dr. Tien has published and presented in the area of multicultural counseling, as well as conducted workshops on ethics and Buddhism. She practices in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism.

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