The Karuna Institute, founded by Maura and Franklyn Sills in 1984, is an international residential Training and Retreat Centre. All the activities of the Institute are based on mindfulness practice. As such, Karuna is one of the oldest Centres worldwide to integrate and teach mindfulness practices as professional healing skills in the west. We offer trainings in Core Process Psychotherapy and Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy with both streams leading to professional qualifications.
We also offer retreats for silence and re-connection with ourselves; time for just 'being', with all the possibilities that can unfold from that experience. The combination of the stunning position and the uniqueness of the teaching has made Karuna Institute renowned throughout the world as a centre for residential training and retreats. The Institute provides opportunities for deepening embodied awareness and cultivating presence and open-heartedness in relationship.
2020 Dates : 9-14 February & 10-15 May 2020
Tutor MAURA SILLS, Co-Director and Founder of the Karuna Institute
*Attendance at both modules is required* The Diploma constitutes 80 CPD hours *THERE ARE ONLY 6 PLACES LEFT ON THIS TRAINING*
BRISTOL - Starting OCTOBER 2020
**2020 ENTRY : we are accepting application for 2020 entry with interviews to be held in 2020 on:
27 March (BRISTOL) 22 MAY (BRISTOL) and 10 JULY (DEVON)
With Maura Sills, co-Founder and Director
Dates : 29 Feb-1 March 2020
and
30-31 May 2020 (TBC)
with Cherionna Menzam-Sills and Jane Okondo
Two seminars per year from April 2019 to 2022
NEXT SEMINAR: 24-29 Nov 2019
with Franklyn Sills, Co-Director and Founder of the Karuna Institute; Cherionna Menzam-Sills or Tanya Desfontaines
15-20 March 2020 : Trauma Unravelled - with Tanya Desfontaines
12-17 July 2020 : Awakening the Heart with Franklyn Sills and Cherionna Menzam-Sills
5 - 10 January 2020
**THERE ARE ONLY 4 PLACES LEFT ON THIS TRAINING**
Tutors: Cherionna Menzam-Sills and Tanya Desfontaines Assistant: Sally Belcham
An advanced seminar on this topic will be offered in 2021 for those who have completed this seminar Read more...
Finding healing in nature
Dates: 9-14 May 2021
A course with Dr Stephan Harding
Perhaps still the greatest mystery in psychology and cognitive science is what it is to be a human being
Dates: 27 June-2 July 2021
A course with John Peacock
CURRENT COURSE DATES
**NB: We no longer offer this training**
Course dates for 2018 - 2020 Two Year Professional Training
1. April 21-26. 2019
2. November 24-29 2019 *only 6 places left on the Nov date*
3. April 12-17 2020
4. Sept 27-October 2 2020
5. More dates: 2 in 2021 and 2 in 2022
Deadline for applications 15 July 2020
with William Emerson Ph.D, with assistants
**THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL AND WE ARE OPERATING A WAITING LIST**
28 June to 3 July 2020
