March 2, 4pm PT (7pm ET)
No meeting on March 16
Paul Condon is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University, and a research fellow of the Mind & Life Institute. He has also been a visiting lecturer for the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and a guest teacher at Kagyu Sukha Choling in Ashland, OR. His writing and teaching examine how psychological science can inform and enhance meditation practices in dialogue with contemplative traditions, with a focus on compassion and wisdom. He has collaborated with John Makransky to develop and teach Sustainable Compassion Training. His practice and teaching are also informed by study with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and Lama Willa Baker.
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5pm ET/2pm PT
Jessica Morey began meditating as a teenager at the Insight Meditation Society, where she is now a retreat teacher. Over the past three decades, she has also practiced in Vajrayāna traditions with teachers including Dr. Dan Brown and Reggie Ray. Since being introduced to SCT in 2015, this approach has become central to her personal practice and teaching. Jess brings a warm, playful, and relational style, focusing on integrating meditation into daily life—partnership, parenting, psychology, and work. She is also passionate about supporting young people in mindfulness practice, co-founding both Inward Bound Mindfulness Education and the Contemplative Semester.
More information and zoom link here: https://JessicaMoreyCoaching.as.me/compassionmondays
7 am PT (10 am ET)
Catherine Rotchford began studying Tibetan Buddhism and practicing meditation with John Makransky, at Boston College in 1995, and has been teaching since 2010. Catherine is inspired to share the practices for sustainable compassion with both beginners and experienced meditation students, because of their power to impact relationships with self and others. Through the practices, students access a deeper, more accepting, more present way of loving themselves and others, which has always been within them. Catherine works in impact investing, and swims and surfs in the paradise of Encinitas, just north of San Diego, California.
To request Zoom link, email: [email protected]
7 pm ET (4pm PT)
Julie Forsythe has been a student of Lama John Makransky since 2000, and has led Sustainable Compassion Training practices since that time. She has been an active student in the Dzogchen tradition since 1996, studying with Lama Surya Das, participating in many retreats including two100 day retreats. She has also been blessed to be able to receive teaching from other teachers, in particular Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
Jane Vecchio has been a student of Lama John Makransky since 2008, and has led Sustainable Compassion Training practices since 2011. She has also attended numerous teachings by other teachers, in particular Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and was a student at the Buddhist Studies Summer Program at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2011.
To request Zoom link, email: [email protected]
Note: On the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each month: in addition to being on Zoom we usually also gather in person at 7pm ET at Putney Friends Meeting House, 17 Bellows Falls Rd. Putney, VT. Those who Zoom can participate as always. (Check email on first Tuesdays to see any changes in this schedule)
11am-12 noon PT (2-3pm ET)
Rachel Cronin is grateful to have studied with teachers in India and North America in all three vehicles of Buddhism, culminating in years of immersion in Gelug/Kagyu approaches to Mahāmudrā and in the Nyingma Dzogchen tradition. She has also trained in depth with teachers who research and practice at the intersection of neuroscience and Buddhism, and graduated from the Engaged Mindfulness Institute’s trauma-informed training with the intention to practice with and learn from under-served communities. She ongoingly studies closely with Lama John Makransky, and teaches online meditation programs to international students, and mindfulness classes at a substance-use treatment center in East Vancouver.
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7 to 8:15 pm ET. Hybrid—offered both via Zoom and in person
Tamara Daly and Yonder Gillihan will lead SCT teachings and meditations online, and also in person at Eliot Church (474 Centre St, Newton, MA). They will follow the progression of practices as presented in John Makransky and Paul Condon’s new book, “How Compassion Works” (Shambhala Publications 2025). Tamara and Yonder are long-time students of Lama John Makransky and experienced in teaching his meditations. They offer this group twice a month with the intention of helping participants deepen in the practice of love, compassion and wisdom and in the experience of refuge.
Tamara Daly has been leading practices of love and wisdom within the Cambridge teaching group for over a decade based on Lama John Makransky’s teachings, initially within the Dzogchen Foundation and now as part of the Sustainable Compassion Community. She is a newly licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner, formerly a psychiatric nurse, and brings these practices into her workplace and life.
Yonder Gillihan is a theology professor at Boston College. He teaches SCT-based meditations as a core component of a contemplative approach to learning in classes at BC and in BC's prison education program, as well as in parish Bible studies and retreats. Yonder is a member of the Spiritual Life Commission and Leadership Council at the Eliot Church of Newton. He also helps lead a weekly online bardo practice for the Natural Dharma Fellowship community.
For information for attending via Zoom or in person, contact: [email protected].
4:30-5:30 PT (7:30-8:30 ET)
Ana Hristić enjoys being in community of practice exploring how Sustainable Compassion Training meditations inform our experience. These days, Ana is especially grateful for the many ways the practices uplift her presence in motherhood, social work, antiracist leadership, and simply being a neighbor. Ana has been a student of Lama John Makransky (and many of his teachers, including Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche) since 2000.
To request Zoom link, email: [email protected]
10-11:30 am ET (1-2:30 PT)
Deborah King is a meditation teacher at Dharma Refuge in Rochester NY and professor emerita in psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She found a 'home' in Tibetan Buddhism after taking refuge with Penor Rinpoche in 1997 and is profoundly grateful to her primary teachers, Anam Thubten Rinpoche, Sue Kochan, and Lama John Makransky for their support and inspiration over the years. The study and practice of SCT with both John Makransky and Paul Condon have had a profound effect on her life as well as her practice of clinical psychology.
For information, contact Deborah King.
For more information and zoom link: https://www.dharmarefuge.com/meditation-sct.html
