University of Kent Compassion Meditation Group. When and where

Compassion meditation at Kent, on-campus and online

The compassion meditation group is free, suitable for beginners and is supported by Kent’s PG Community Experience Awards, the group meets at 5 pm in person and 7 pm online every Thursday. For more information email sgm34@kent.ac.uk, or just turn up!

The group practices self-other compassion specifically linked to health, happiness and wellbeing. We use a secular form of traditional Tonglen meditation, designed to integrate compassion for self and other. Following meditation, refreshments are provided and there is a change to chat or ask questions. For details of meetings and meditation advice follow the @KentCompassion Twitter account or sign up to the WhatsApp group (email sgm34@kent.ac.uk for the link).

Meeting dates for this term (please not that we use two different rooms).

17-02-2022 – CNWsr5

24-02-2022 – CNWsr5

03-03-2022 – CESR5

10-03-2022 – CESR5

17-03-2022 – CESR5

24-03-2022 – CESR5

31-03-2022 – CESR5

07-04-2022 – CNWsr5

Online meetings take place at 7pm every Thursday for those people self-isolating or not on campus. Wherever possible compassion meditation is best supported by a guided group meditation.

The group is led by Stephen Gene Morris, a meditation neuropsychologist with twenty five years experience of spiritual and secular meditation.

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Neuropsychologist researching what happens when a spiritual practice (meditation) is translated to a psychological intervention; what is lost and what is gained from the curative potential? A PhD candidate writing the scientific history mindfulness. Also researching how compassion and explicitly nondual meditation methods influence our physical and mental health. Stephen has decades of personal practice in spiritual and secular forms of meditation, he has also been trained in the Himalayan Science of Mind and Perception (Tsema). Alongside the teaching and research of nondual methods, Stephen trains his own brain every day with Dzogchen practices. View all posts by Stephen