Compassion Without Overwhelm: Feeling Without Collapsing
With Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle
June 4, 2026
Online
With Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · 7-8 pm MT (6pm PST, 8pm Central, 9pm EST)
Online (Recording Available)
Pay-from-the-heart (Suggested Range $20-$50)
How do we stay open to suffering without drowning in it? Grief, numbing out, and exhaustion are natural responses to these times. This session offers practices for containment and compassion—allowing ourselves to feel without being swept away.
Session 2 of our 2026 Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series.
About the Leaders
Karen McAllister
Karen McAllister is a dharma teacher, money coach, and Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky Meditation Centre. For over 25 years, she has followed a path of deep spiritual practice as a close student of Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in the lineage of Namgyal Rinpoche. Her training has been lived and embodied, integrating […]
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Duncan Cryle
Duncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto, Despertando no Brasil ("Awakening in Brazil"), and through […]
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