Resume

• 1980

  Master of Social Work (MSW)

  Children and Families

  The Catholic University of America

• 1976

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Aesthetic Studies in Music

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

• Adolescents

  Staff Development

  Research

  Clinical Supervision

  Mental Health

  Special Education

  Psychology

  Family Therapy

  Crisis Intervention

  Mindfulness

  Teaching

  CBT

  Group Therapy

  Therapists

  Counseling Psychology

  Public Speaking

  Mental Health Counseling

  Behavioral Health

  Social Services

  Psychotherapy

  Enhancing a Positive School Climate with Compassion and Analytical Selective-Focus Skills (COMPASS)

  Acknoledgements go to Tom Pruzinsky

  PhD for his help with this article.

  COMPASS is a secularized system for the development of compassionnate insight. I will be discussing more about this subject this summer at the national conference of the American Psychological Association (APA) in a symposium entitled \"Cultivating Compassion--- Empirically Validating Tibetan Buddhist Mind-Training Techniques

  ” and also at the national conference of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in a symposium entitled \"Courage to Serve in the Face of Suffering: Clinical Perspectives on Compassion and Self-Compassion.\"

  Enhancing a Positive School Climate with Compassion and Analytical Selective-Focus Skills (COMPASS)

  Translated by Yeshe Khedrup and Wilson Hurley

  Written by the Written by Third Gungthang Rinpoche

  Venerable Konchok Tenpai Dronme

  The Water and Wood Shastras are poems that embody the central passion of ancient Tibetan culture—the pursuit of knowledge and compassion to actualize the highest potential of the human spirit. They are part of the Subhasita genre of literature

  which flourished in ancient India and was eventually taken up in Tibet.\nShastras (Tibetan: bstan bcos) are commentaries on the Buddha's teachings meant to help transform the mind and protect it from negative states

  which lead to suffering. To communicate the insights within his commentaries

  Gungthang Rinpoche drew upon his own experiences from years of intensive spiritual study and expressed his thoughts through rich verbal images drawn from the natural world. Such were the tools he used to articulate his realizations for the benefit of others.\nThe poems included in this volume illustrate the author's profound insights into the nature of humanity and the essence of the path to enlightenment. Their message is deep and vast

  but deceptively simplified and beautifully garbed in the metaphors of Gungthang Rinpoche's elegant verse. \nIn addition to the poems

  the volume contains an illuminating biography of Gungthang Rinpoche and critical commentary on the place these poems occupy within ancient Tibetan thought and culture

  linking some of these ancient insights with recent mind-body research

  making the volume highly suitable for both a lay market and an academically inclined audience. A PodCast of a December 18

  2012 interview between Sharon Salzberg and Wilson Hurley about the book can be found at http://www.mstcdharma.org/audioteachings.htm. \nThe Water and Wood Shastras are available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com \n

  The Water and Woods Shastras

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Nonviolent Struggle for Tibet

  ”

  Lorne Ladner

  Ph.D.

  \tScience and Buddhism: Studying Compassion

  Check out the interview with Sharon Salzberg about the book at http://karunapublications.org/books/9780976546993.html

  \nand also see RFA's article on secular ethics at \nhttp://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/ethics-02052013134844.html

  Hurley

  LCSW

  Wilson

  Hurley

  LCSW

  Fairfax County Public Schools

  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  George Mason University

  Wilson C. Hurley

  LCSW

  Teaches Direct Practice for first year Masters Progrm Social Work students

  George Mason University

  Author

  Forthcoming book: Compassion’s Compass

  Strategies for Developing Kindness and Insight

  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  Social Worker

  Fairfax County Public Schools

  Owner

  Idividual

  Marital and Family Psychotherapy

  Wilson C. Hurley

  LCSW