The Inspiring Conversations Podcast

By: Real Meaningful Conversations From The Real World
  • Summary

  • Inspiring Conversations with people who are making a difference in the world. Opportunities to hear their stories, life journeys, lessons learned along the way, and their visions for the future. Real conversations and real stories. Inspiring. Uplifting. Enlightening.
    © 2023 The Inspiring Conversations Podcast
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Episodes
  • Even Though Being Mindful And Present Isn't Always Joyful Or Blissful, I Want To Be Open To Being Here For It All
    12 mins
  • A Deep Conversation With Melissa Moore
    Feb 19 2025

    Melissa Moore Ph.D. is the steward of North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

    Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.

    Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband.

    Melissa recently published The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology; find out more about the book
    here: https://thediamondswithinus.org

    To learn more about Melissa and about Karuna Training, visit
    https://karunatraining.com

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    50 mins
  • "The Three Minds"--There Is More To My Mind Than My Thoughts And Emotional Reactions
    11 mins

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