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 training in Core Process Psychotherapy 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.
DEVON: 2021 DATES:
11-16 April 2021 or 11-16 July 2021
Tutors: Senior Karuna Staff
Tutor MAURA SILLS, Co-Director and Founder of the Karuna Institute
2020-21 REVISED Dates : 7-12 February 2021 & 16-21 May 2021
*Attendance at both modules is required* The Diploma constitutes 80 CPD hours Read more...
BRISTOL - Starting OCTOBER 2020
**2020 ENTRY : we are accepting application for 2020 entry with interviews to be held in 2020 on: 27 March; 22 MAY **NB ONLINE INTERVIEWS GIVEN ONGOING COVID-19 and 17 JULY (DEVON) Read more...
NEXT Dates : TBC
Two seminars per year from April 2019 to 2022 : NEXT SEMINAR: 27 Sept-2 Oct 2020: *ONLINE* Read more...
Our Journey Here : Prenatal and Birth Experience starting 23 May 2021 Tutor: Cherionna Menzam-Sills
Trauma Unravelled ONLINE NEW DATE 31 March - 4 April 2021 Tutor : Tanya Desfontaines
LEVEL 1: *ONLINE* 19-23 October 2020
LEVEL 2: 2-7 May 2021 Advanced Seminar for those who have completed Level 1 Tutors: Cherionna Menzam-Sills and Tanya Desfontaines Assistant: Sally Belcham 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
3. April 12-17 2020
4. Sept 27-October 2 2020 *ONLINE*
5. More dates: 2 in 2021 and 2 in 2022
Year Two: (after completion of Year 1) : completion of 2 from 4 x 5-day residential retreats
Should Social Distancing continue this course will be offered Online
Dates: (5-day format) Sunday 1 November – Friday 6 November 2020
with William Emerson Ph.D, with assistants
**NB: THERE ARE ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT ON THIS WORKSHOP**
Date: 6-11 June 2021
