Contemplative Creative Courses at the Lojong Center: Foundational and Advanced Training Starting in 2026
- Dec 26, 2025
- 3 min read
Mindfulness has become a central thread in the evolving fields of mental health, psychotherapy, and contemplative science. Over the years, I have witnessed how meditation and contemplative creative practices—when thoughtfully integrated into clinical and educational contexts—can profoundly transform therapeutic processes and outcomes.
The Lojong Center offers a distinctive learning environment where creativity is not treated as an adjunct, but as an essential dimension of contemplative creative therapy and meditation-informed interventions. Rooted in embodied awareness, Buddhist psychology, and contemporary clinical frameworks, these courses invite participants to engage contemplative practice as a living, experiential process.
This introduction offers an overview of the contemplative creative online courses launching in 2026, highlighting what makes the Lojong Center a unique hub for mental health professionals, educators, and contemplative practitioners seeking depth, integration, and ethical grounding.
Integrating Contemplative Creative Therapy and Meditation-Informed Interventions
One of the most compelling aspects of the Lojong Center is its integration of contemplative creative therapy with meditation-informed interventions. This blend creates a rich therapeutic environment where creativity and meditation practices intersect. Contemplative creative therapy encourages expression through art, movement, and other creative outlets while maintaining mindful awareness of the present moment.
For mental health professionals, this integration offers a powerful way to engage clients who might find traditional talk therapy limiting. For instance, a client struggling with anxiety might use mindful drawing or movement to explore and release tension. The therapist guides this process with an awareness of both the creative expression and the underlying emotional states.
Meditation-informed interventions at the Lojong Center are designed to deepen this process. These interventions draw from both Buddhist contemplative practices and contemporary neuroscience, providing a framework that supports emotional regulation, self-compassion, and insight. The center’s approach is not about adopting a specific religious practice but about cultivating universal qualities such as kindness, patience, and clarity.
Contemplative Creative Therapy: Integrating Buddhist Psychology, Meditation, and Embodied Creativity in Clinical Practice, published in December 2025, provides the theoretical and clinical foundation for these trainings and serves as a companion resource for participants engaging in the 2026 course offerings.
Beginning the Journey: 2026
Online Courses at the Lojong Center
At the heart of the Lojong Center’s training approach is Contemplative Creative Therapy (CCT)—a model that integrates meditation, Buddhist psychology, embodied awareness, and contemplative creative practices within clinical and educational contexts. The courses offered in 2026 are designed to support both personal practice and professional application, inviting participants to deepen presence, insight, and creative engagement in a structured and ethical way.
March 4 – 25, 2026
This foundational course introduces the theoretical, contemplative, and clinical roots of Contemplative Creative Therapy. Participants explore integrating meditation, embodied mind training, and contemplative creative practices, gaining a clear framework for supporting emotional regulation, self-awareness, and therapeutic presence with clients and groups.
February 23 – March 30, 2026
This course focuses on integrating mindfulness-based practices with art therapy and contemplative creative expression. Participants learn how meditation-informed creative processes can support clients in cultivating emotional awareness, resilience, and gentle self-inquiry, while also deepening their own embodied and reflective practice.
April 8 – 29, 2026
This course explores the Contemplative Circle Method through the origins of mandala practice and its clinical integration, with a focus on mandalas and circles as containers for healing, safety, and contemplative creative expression. Participants learn how to facilitate embodied, relational, and symbolically grounded circle processes that support emotional regulation, shared meaning-making, and ethical group work in therapeutic, educational, and community settings.
These courses are designed for clinicians, therapists, counsellors, and mental health professionals who wish to deepen and expand their clinical approach through contemplative creative training. Grounded in Contemplative Creative Therapy (CCT) and its specialized methods, the programs offer practical frameworks, experiential tools, and ethical guidance that can be thoughtfully integrated into existing therapeutic orientations. Participants are invited to broaden their clinical repertoire, enhance therapeutic presence, and cultivate creative, embodied interventions that support resilience, insight, and meaningful change for both practitioners and the individuals they serve.
All courses are offered online, and registration is now open through the Lojong Center. Further details, including Zoom access, will be gently shared with registered participants as the course dates approach.
As the year draws to a close, we offer our sincere gratitude for your presence, curiosity, and continued engagement. May this season bring moments of rest and reflection, and may the New Year open with space for learning, creativity, and mindful practice. We look forward to practicing and learning together.
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