TRAINING A MILLION COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE (Part One Immersion)
6 Weeks: Jan 8th - Feb 12th, meeting Saturdays from 9-10:30am PST. (Choose your sliding scale tuition from the drop-down bar below.)
This course is closed.
To enroll in the next Compassion Immersion, please go to ALL COURSES in the upper right banner, then select COMPASSION from the course topics. We'd love to have you with us in this movement for global change.
About This Course
This program is here to meet the collective longing for a more compassionate world. The timing of this particular run of the course allows you to harness the energy of change around the new year into something valuable for yourself as well as our shared world.
Blending Buddhist teachings, Western psychology, and neuroscience, this course will give you insights and tools to help you navigate internal and external difficulties with more grace, and to abide more often with the wise and effective skills of compassion. This program is here to make this essential work possible on a global scale large enough to make a real difference in the world. Because all of our problems -- from the personal to the societal -- are better solved when approached through a compassionate leans
This course is for you if
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You want to cultivate authentic self-compassion that naturally ripples out to others.
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You want to be more compassionate with those you disagree with, and more effective in your communications with them.
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You want to replace your judgmental and reactionary tendencies with ways that are softer, more tolerant and understanding.
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You want to participate in making the world a better place.
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You are experiencing compassion fatigue and need to cultivate more self-nurturing.
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You want to find genuine faith in humanity and hope for our future.
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You want to make your way to a more open-hearted, connected state of being (especially after the long isolation of the past two years).
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You want to find a way to turn your rage for the injustices of the world into something productive.
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You want a supportive community of people who are as committed as you to living compassionately.
How This Course Works
We'll meet weekly for six weeks via conference call on Saturdays from 9 - 10:30am PST. Our first call together will be on Saturday, January 8th, and the last one will be on February 12th. Our calls will be recorded so you may listen to them anytime if you miss any of them or if you just want to spend more time with the material. Each week, I’ll introduce a new compassion-related topic, and you'll receive a homework assignment to help you absorb or relate to the ideas I've shared. Through our private community portal, you may engage with your fellow classmates to discuss the challenges and successes you experience in learning to embody the teachings. The homework in this course is light and includes a daily meditation. (The Part Two Compassion Course, which you may take after this course, places more emphasis on practical applications and homework.)
This Course Comes With Community
There is a community included with this course. When you enroll, you'll be added to a private network where you can share your thoughts, experiences, insights, and challenges with your classmates as we go through the course together. Then, after you complete this course, you'll be added to the beautiful, widening circle all compassion immersion graduates. This growing Compassion Community is a supportive, safe, and humble community made of people who are committed to creating a more compassionate society, starting with themselves. This community is offered frequent check in and discussion gatherings to help keep the compassion teachings fresh and present. Membership in this Community is free after you've completed this initial 6-Week Compassion Immersion. I'd love to have you with us. (You do not have to be an American to take this course. We've had people from all over the world go through this immersion and we love the diversity of perspectives and experience.)
About Your Immersion Guide
Julia Frodahl is a spiritual teacher, and the founder of "Training A Million Compassionate People", a cultural well-being and transformation project that launched in early 2020. She believes that collectively learning the skills of compassion is the calling of our times, and an essential part of the solution to the monumental problems we face.
Through this program, she's trained people from all over the globe in the skills of compassion — from across the US, to the UK, France, Pakistan, Norway, Greece, Canada, Spain, and Turkey.
Julia holds an honors degree in Philosophy & Humanities from the University of San Francisco, as well as various certifications in the healing arts.
She's studied Western psychology (primarily Jungian and Process-Oriented psychology), Buddhism, and nature-based wisdom for over 30 years. Through world travels and walkabouts, she's continuously sought out the kind of wisdom that cannot be learned in the classroom, and has made it her life’s work to understand the human psyche and spirit deeply.
Invite A Friend Or Family Member
This immersion is a beautiful process to go through with friends and family members. In doing so, you’ll have someone close to process these life-changing ideas with, to share this more compassionate outlook on life with, and your bonds will become stronger and more enduring. Please consider inviting someone you love to enroll with you.
More Testimonials
This course is enchanted with theory, poetry, and community for everyone to learn and engage with.
"This course really allowed me to tap on the door of my heart. I felt skillfully guided by the thoughtful material and lifelong work Julia shares so gently with the group. Practicing the meditations enriched my daily life, even on the days I wasn't able to sit still enough to meditate. Over the course of six weeks I began to listen to the voice of compassion in myself and in others more deeply. This course is enchanted with theory, poetry, and community for everyone to learn and engage with."
I am so thankful to Julia for her dedication to spreading compassion as a way to address our world’s many challenges.
“I did not know what to expect when I signed up for Julia’s compassion class, and now I wish everyone could experience it. Julia walked us through a series of teachings about the self, compassion, and what it means to be part of our larger world that built upon each other week by week. This process enabled me to understand things about myself and others slowly, an excavation of sedimentary layers of personal and social experiences and beliefs that have shaped our lives. Julia’s integration of Eastern philosophy and Western psychology resonated with me in ways that each set of teachings on its own had not. I am so thankful to Julia for her dedication to spreading compassion as a way to address our world’s many challenges. I look forward to continuing my compassion journey with her.”
[This class] helped me see the human condition, my own and others, with tenderness and open-heartedness.
"This class really helped me see my daily struggles in a new way. It helped me see the human condition, my own and others, with tenderness and open-heartedness. I feel warm, inspired to care for myself in a deeper and more loving way, and able to care for others without fear that it will deplete me. It reminded me that true happiness is possible and worth opening my heart to when it comes, and that deep within me, all of these sweet, loving qualities are asleep and dreaming the most beautiful dreams, and that they can awaken and be called forth at any moment."
I needed this. We all need this.
"I needed this. We all need this. Never has the time for cultivating true compassion been more necessary for our lives and our planet. Weekly group lessons, guided by Julia’s long-developed practice, were rich with wisdom that helped me to shift the way I’m willing to encounter myself and others. The homework assignments and meditations helped me to stay accountable, so that I could put Metta Bhavana, loving kindness, on its feet and slow down, as I learned through actual experience, not just theory, how to trust in the wisdom of my own heart. Another Julia gift. She gives you the words, so you can eventually release them to the winds, and feel for a change."
This course changed my life.
"This course changed my life. I finally get how important it is to treat myself like a friend, and how this goodness will just ripple out. Something in me feels lighter, and life feels easier these days. I'm especially grateful that my mom took this course with me, and that she was as moved as I was by it ("paradigm shift" were her words), and that we have a shared understanding now of how to relate to each other and our world. I wish every person in the world had access to these teachings."
The anchor that I needed.
"Julia's Compassion Immersion course came at a time of crisis and struggle for me both personally and in the world at large. It has been the anchor that I needed to help center myself each week, connect, relate, learn and gain new tools to be more compassionate for myself and others. Julia has an immense breadth of knowledge and wisdom - every word, reading, meditation and message of advice or support she offers cuts right to the heart - she has a special and gentle way about her that is truly magical. This course will encourage you to discover where you can have more compassion for yourself and others, and how our fear, judgements, anger, resentments and insecurities keep us from living as our most loving and compassionate selves. It will inspire you to want to dig deeper and implement Julia's rich teachings more into your daily life. I'm so grateful to Julia for creating this course and look forward to continuing my journey in the Level 2 immersion!"
If there were a way to gift the experience to the entire world I would.
I cannot overstate how powerful this course is. If there were a way to gift the experience to the entire world I would. Down to earth and rooted in modern psychology, with offerings of more ancient wisdom interwoven, this course is for anyone who wants to be a better human.
A deep dive into the wells of ourselves we pass by every day without peering into.
"Julia's compassion class is a deep dive into the wells of ourselves we pass by every day without peering into. Plumbing the boundless capability within all of us to not just endure the challenges of life, but to float within the river of it, our course made gentler by our own work done to remember our innate buoyancy. Her guidance provides a tool, and a lifeview, for navigating the world and recognizing the poetry and possibility of the human condition."
I learned so much about unconditional love (yes, there is such a thing) and the obstacles in its way.
"This course was eye opening and life changing. I learned so much about unconditional love (yes, there is such a thing) and the obstacles in its way. The insight and tools Julia shared with us relating to anger, judgment, forgiveness, and more have already positively affected my relationships with others, and more importantly, with myself. What a worthwhile investment!!"
Julia has opened up the meaning of compassion for me.
"Julia has opened up the meaning of compassion for me, especially the need for self-compassion. Her gentle manner, her insightful and challenging questions, and her genuine care for each of us and our development have inspired and supported me on this essential journey. I feel so grateful I discovered her NOW!"
