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Welcome, MSC Graduates! You may now apply for 2021 cohorts of the CDP below. 

▸ APPLY for Cohort 14

▸ CDP Cohort 14 – Thursdays

Dates: April. 1 – Nov. 18, 2021 (Thursdays)

Time: 7-9 a.m. PST / 9-11 a.m. CST / 10 a.m. – noon EST (Convert to your local time)
(The 2-hour weekly course takes place during mornings in the Americas and afternoons in Europe.)

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Teachers: David Spound and Ruth Williamson
Cost: $1600 USD for 8.5-month course; payable all at once or monthly. If paid monthly, please add $50. $250 deposit is due with your application. Limited financial support is still available. Read more.


▸ Apply to the CDP-Evolving

▸ CDP – Evolving (CDP-E)
(6-month pilot program)

The Evolving CDP (CDP-E) isn’t about building perfection, but building greater trust of ourselves and our process. Through a self-compassion lens, we’ll build on what we’ve already learned about essential MSC topics and gently invite another curious look. As with all CDP experiences, the community teaches each other through generous reflection, heartfelt co-enquiry, and radical acceptance of each group member exactly as they are. Note that this course includes two 3-hour mini-retreats.

Deepening inquiries may include the following topics: understanding the inner critic, self-motivation, opening to balance with giving and receiving, physiology and self-regulation (activation, regulation, restoration), shame, cultivating balance among fierce and tender self-compassion, intentional cultivation of the good (and barriers to letting it in), and so much more.

In future years, we will alternate times for this course so that participants from around the globe get the chance to participate.

April 1 – Sept. 9, 2021 (Thursdays in the Americas)
April 2 – Sept. 10, 2021 (Fridays in Australasia)

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Teachers: Aimee Eckhardt and Tina Gibson
Cost: $1400 USD for 6-month course; payable all at once or monthly. $250 deposit is due with your application. Limited financial support is available. Read more.


▸ Apply for Cohort 15

▸ CDP Cohort 15 – Mondays

Dates: Aug. 16, 2021 – March 28, 2022 (Mondays)
Time: 7-9 a.m. PST / 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. CST / 10 a.m. – noon EST / 15:00-17:00 GMT
(Convert to your local time)

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Teachers: Aimee Eckhardt and Dennis Johnson
Cost:
$1600 USD for 8-month course; payable all at once or monthly. If paid monthly, please add $50. $250 deposit is due with your application. Limited financial support is available. Read more.

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Hear Graduate Experiences

“I treasured this time as an essential home base — a place to reconnect with my true self, with a loving community, and with the safety of wise guidance. This time reinforced the concept of common humanity which is a struggle for me personally. I was surrounded by teachers and role models — not of perfection, but of imperfectly continuing to show up with intention, openness, curiosity, wonder, struggles, impatience, confusion, and tenderness. These times were infinitely rich and so precious to me.”

– 2019 CDP Graduate

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