Guest Speakers
Ven. Tenzin Namsel
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Amy Barton-Cayton
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Professor David Gray
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Professor Paul Gilbert
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Brooke Dodson Lavelle
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Tenzin Namsel is an American Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He took his monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2008 and has developed his Buddhist studies and practice under an array of well-respected Tibetan Buddhist masters and in a variety of solitary meditation retreats since his early twenties. Namsel teaches meditation and Buddhist philosophy throughout the United States. He also supports Tsoknyi Rinpoche's Pundarika Sangha as a practice advisor and leads review sessions during teaching retreats with Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
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Amy Cayton has been serving FPMT as a consultant since 1998 and has been integral to the development and facilitation of service trainings for the organization. She has a PhD in Sociology, a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, and over twenty years of counseling experience. Amy has been a serious Dharma student since 1997 and has attended a number of long retreats with Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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David Gray is an Associate Professor at the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Wesleyan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Religion from Columbia University. His research explores the development of tantric Buddhist traditions in South Asia, and their dissemination in Tibet and East Asia, with a focus on the Yogini tantras, a genre of Buddhist tantric literature that focused on female deities and yogic practices involving the subtle body. He focuses particularly on the Cakrasamvara Tantra, an esoteric Indian Buddhist scripture that serves as the basis for a number of important Nepali and Tibetan Buddhist practice traditions.
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Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Derbyshire Health Care Foundation Trust. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology 40 years with a special focus on shame and the treatment of shame based difficulties - for which compassion focused therapy was developed. He was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1993. In 2003 Paul was president of the BABCP and a member of the first British Governments’ NICE guidelines for depression. He has written/edited 20 books and over 200 papers. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation a charity with the mission statement "To promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion". He has run many retreats for personal practice of developing compassion, rooted in our understanding of our evolved brains and minds. He was awarded an OBE in March 2011.
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Brooke D. Lavelle Heineberg is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Courage of Care Leadership Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Innate Compassion Training (ICT) programs and support to individuals and communities in education, health care, and other areas of social service. She is also Senior Education Consultant to Mind & Life's Ethics, Education, and Human Development Initiative and a co-developer of the Call to Care program for teachers and students. Brooke holds a PhD in Religious Studies and Cognitive Psychology from Emory University. Her academic work focuses on the confluence of Buddhist contemplative theory and cognitive science, as well as the cultural contexts that shape the transmission, reception, and secularization of Buddhist contemplative practices in America. While at Emory, she served as a lead instructor for several studies examining the efficacy of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), and has helped to develop and adapt CBCT for school children as well as adolescents in Atlanta's foster care system. In 2010, she helped developed the CBCT Teacher Training Program, and served as associate training director.
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