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The Karuna Institute is an Educational Trust whose intention is to support a Dharmically based psychotherapy training programme. The Institute is located in Dartmoor National Park and all trainings are given on a part time basis and are fully residential. The main focus of the Institute is the training of psychotherapists in Core Process Psychotherapy. The practice of Core Process Psychotherapy is based on a contemplative approach to psychotherapy. It is an exploration of how we are in our present experience, and how this expresses the past conditioning and conditions of our lives. The intention of this enquiry is the possibility of transforming our relationship to suffering and the facilitation of greater and more conscious choice in our daily life.
In Core Process work, a depth awareness of what is happening in the present moment is used to explore our inner process. This awareness encompasses our energies, sensations, feelings, mental processes and their expressions in the body. The aim is not to alter our experience, but to sense how we relate to it, so that it becomes possible to move with greater creativity and flexibility in our lives. Core Process work is based on the understanding that within the conscious mind there is a deeper wisdom that moves naturally towards healing. Integration and healing come from insight into the ways in which we hold onto our suffering, and from a deeper connection with the openness, compassion and wisdom at the heart of our human condition.
Core Process Psychotherapy is based on a depth understanding of human personality process and of human potential.
The ‘Core’ is that unconditioned state inherent in every human being. It is the potential for pure, open, awareness
in the present whose qualities manifest as peace, compassion, loving kindness and joy. It is sometimes called the
‘luminous’ or already enlightened mind. Our ‘Core Process’ is the movement from this inherent core state towards a
sense of separateness and personality formation. Core Process Psychotherapy facilitates an awareness of this shaping
process in which we hold the shape of our past experience in the present moment. The focus of the work is an exploration
and enquiry into both the sense of this personality shape and the suffering that arises in attachment and identification with it.
It also holds the possibility open that there is in each of us the potential to rest in the present moment, truly seeing things
as they are. In this state of awareness, there is a natural arising of compassion and love with the possibility of expressing
greater spontaneity and joy. Buddhist psychology and awareness practice has greatly influenced the foundations of this work and
western personality theory and psychotherapeutic skills are used to support and expand this understanding.
Please note that the Karuna Institute does not discriminate in its decisions or practices by gender, race, colour, class, physical disability, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
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