Online: Trust Fall – How to Meet Vulnerability and Uncertainty with Compassion and Wisdom
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, September 4th, 2021 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm ET
The best parts of life — as well as the worst — ask us to show up with an ability to be vulnerable and embrace uncertainty. Whether it’s falling in love, surviving a pandemic, claiming your identity, having a child, re-entering society, or having a difficult conversation… life throws us into vulnerable and uncertain situations over and over again.
It’s not all bad news, though. We can harness such situations for growth, healing, and transformation. We can open our hearts in a way that allow us to walk through such situations with dignity, strength, resourcefulness, and humor. The question is, how do we open our hearts in this way? How do cultivate this ability?
Join author and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa for a half day workshop on precisely these matters. You’ll learn how to apply skills of emotional intelligence and resilience in your meditation practice. Together, we’ll explore ideas on how to meet the challenges we face in this unique moment and excavate them for awakening.
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Teacher(s)
Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Ralph De La Rosa (they/he) is the author of three books, including the new Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Compassion (foreword by Richard Schwartz). He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a longtime meditation teacher known for his radically honest and humorous approach.
Perhaps most crucial is that Ralph walks the path of outshining trauma alongside the people he works with. He is a survivor of PTSD, heroin addiction, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and liver failure. Walking through these matters with the help of profound therapists and mentors has been an empowerment no school could have offered. It is simply part of his path to offer back what he’s been shown.
Ralph has mentored personally with Richard Schwartz, founder of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, known for its efficacy in healing trauma. Ralph has completed an invite-only advanced teacher training with Jack Kornfield. His work has been featured in GQ, CNN, NY Post, Tricycle, Mindful Magazine, and beyond.
He began practicing meditation in 1996 and has trained in a spectrum of yogic and healing traditions, including devotional Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Ralph began teaching Buddhist-inspired meditation in 2008. Today, Ralph identifies as practitioner and teacher of human spirituality. He teaches a highly specialized hybrid of IFS and Buddhism to offer students a direct path of conscious evolution and self-discovery.
Ralph is an intersectional activist, musician, wannabe acrobat, and outdoor enthusiast currently residing in Seattle, WA.