Weekend Workshop: Mini Cultivating Emotional Balance Training (Hybrid)

with Eve Ekman, PhD, Tenzin Chogkyi, and Ryan Redman, MA

Friday, July 25, 7:30 – 9 pm - Overview of Cultivating Emotional Balance
Saturday, July 26, 10 am – 4 pm - Immersion Workshop
Sunday, July 27, 9 – 11 am - Workshop Closure

Join us for a transformative weekend immersion in the core practices of Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB), blending collaborative emotional awareness training with guided meditation.

Together, we’ll explore practical tools to recognize, track, and work skillfully with emotions like anger and sadness, while cultivating joy, mindfulness, compassion, and a grounded presence. Through experiential learning, group dialogue, and introspective practices, we’ll deepen awareness of our emotional habits and reconnect with our inner capacity for well-being.

This workshop supports lasting change—helping you bring more clarity, connection, and purpose into daily life. Guided by CEB’s core teachers, Eve Ekman, Tenzin Chokgyi, and Ryan Redman, you'll be learning from facilitators decades of experience helping others navigate the inner landscape with wisdom and care.

Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806

This class is open to everyone. No prior meditation experience is required.

Dr. Eve Ekman is an experienced speaker, researcher, and group facilitator. She brings a unique background ideally suited to training individuals and organizations in the science of happiness, resilience, compassion, mindfulness, and emotional awareness.

She worked for years as a social worker in health care, criminal justice, and social welfare systems. This experience inspired her to earn her master’s and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and complete her postdoctoral training at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. During her doctoral studies, she pursued an interdisciplinary approach to research through public health, sociology, education, and psychology. Also during this time, she took over from her father the role as one of the lead teachers for the Cultivating Emotional Balance program, developed jointly with Dr. Alan Wallace at the request of the Dalai Lama.

Eve’s research interest includes technology that fosters emotion regulation and mindfulness, developing a dynamic measurement for empathy, and assessing the impact of provider empathy on the quality of patient care. In addition to her role with CEB, Eve is currently the Director of Training at the University of California Berkeley Greater Good Science Center.

Ryan Redman began developing a keen interest in contemplative-based practices at an early age and eventually traveled to India at the age of twenty to pursue his interests in meditation. Upon his return, Ryan began teaching and studying contemplative-based practices while studying at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he met his primary meditation teacher Dr. Alan Wallace. After graduation, Ryan returned to India several times and spent over three years there deepening his personal practice and furthering his understanding of various contemplative traditions.

As a result of these experiences, Ryan has dedicated himself to exploring the interrelationship between mind transformation, personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmental stewardship. Ryan has been teaching in the Sun Valley Idaho area for the past 20 years and has completed a Masters degree in Contemplative Education from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to his role as one of the lead instructors for the CEB Certified Practitioner Program, he has served a pivotal role in developing and evolving the CEB curriculum for both teachers and students.

Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well.

Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She worked in administrative positions in several Buddhist centers in the 1990’s, and also completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period. Tenzin took monastic ordination in 2004 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and practiced as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.

In addition to CEB, Tenzin is a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training, a secular compassion training program developed at Stanford University. She is also a training and curriculum specialist for the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz. County and is on the Sustainable Caring teaching team.