Presentation: In this zoom webinar Continuing Education event for helping professionals, Dr Eng-Kong Tan will present the central contributions from Buddhist Psychotherapists.  These include taking refuge in their Buddhist faith, faith in the therapeutic process, in the Dhamma, in the teachings and practices from their work and from their Sangha of spiritual teachers and psychotherapeutic communities.

Dr Tan will draw from Buddhist Influenced Therapies, Integrated Mindfulness Based and Dynamic/Analytic Practices and emphasis will be given to the cultivation of the Brahma Viharas of Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity, so needed in these challenging times as the antidotes to hate, cruelty, despair and chaos.

Eng-Kong will conclude with mindful contemplations of goodness, gratefulness and gratitude. We enter our new world with lessons learnt from the pandemic with wisdom and compassion.

Speaker: Dr Eng-Kong Tan is an analytic psychotherapist, consultant psychiatrist and Founder/ Chairman of Metta Clinic in Pymble, Sydney. He is Founder President and the first Director of Training of AABCAP’s two-year professional training course in Buddhism & Psychotherapy.  He is an Academic Board member of Nan Tien Institute, Wollongong, where, as an Adjunct Professor, he advises, teaches and integrates the two healing traditions of Buddhism and psychotherapy.

In his private practice, Dr Tan provides individual and couple’s therapy, meditation, personal development and analytic groups. He was formerly Chairman of Training to the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australia (PPAA) and Chair of the Section of  Psychotherapy of the RANZCP. In the last four decades. Eng-Kong has presented keynote addresses, led seminars and run workshops for Buddhist and psychotherapy organizations in Australia and overseas.