Heart-Smile Training Intensive Introduction Program

"Heart-Smile Training (HST) is an interoceptive compassion program designed to develop the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and others with a focus on interoceptive awareness. It is unique from other compassion trainings in its focus on 1) embodiment of warmth and tenderness of compassionate feeling with a compassionate body scan meditation, 2) development of an authentic presence, characterized by a warm feeling of loosened attachment to ego-based self, and 3) cultivation of joy triggered by genuine smile to oneself. HST-IIP is a 3-day/4-week/1-day interoceptive compassion program that shares the same core elements and practices as HST 3-day intensive program. Unlike HST, the format of the HST-IIP has an extended duration to develop self-regulation through the cultivation of emotional and behavioral regulation."