Donald Rothberg
Donald Rothberg, Ph.D. (he/him), is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center in California. He has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976 and also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice, in the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy, and in the Somatic Experiencing approach to working with trauma. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook University, he currently teaches and writes on mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation and the application of these and other practices to transforming the judgmental mind, speech and communication, working with conflict, social service, and social action. Donald is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers. He is currently working on a book on transforming the judgmental mind.
Upcoming Programs by Donald Rothberg
The Heart of Practice: Awakening and the End of Dukkha (or Reactivity)
The Buddha famously said, “I teach dukkha [reactivity or a sense of unsatisfactoriness] and the end of dukkha.” The end of dukkha is often a synonym for awakening and Nirvana. In this retreat, we will explore this core aim of practice—to awaken—that is at the heart of the tradition. After a first day developing greater […]