Free Webinar: Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training – BLAIPOC-Only Group – September 2025 Cohort

We invite you to join our free webinar on the Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training’s BLAIPOC-only group, for the September 2025 cohort, with our Founding CI Facilitator, Vimalasara (Dr. Valerie Mason-John). The BLAIPOC group is for anyone who identifies as Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, or Person of Color.

Free Information Webinar:

DATE: May 1, 2025
TIME: 12PM – 1PM ET (Toronto time zone)
(Convert to your time zone here.)
Online on Zoom

The free webinar will include:

A presentation from Vimalasara, Founding CI Facilitator.
An opportunity to hear the experiences from previous participants.
Q&A from BTR participants.

Compassionate Inquiry® offers BTR Members:

A subsidized rate to undergo the CI Professional Training.
A guaranteed spot in the September 2025 Cohort, once you apply.
Two additional biweekly meetings focused on relevant topics for the BLAIPOC community.

Recording will be sent to all registered participants.

Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training BLAIPOC-Only Group Details:

Compassionate Inquiry® is a 330-hour, graduate level, year-long training, with a trauma-informed psychotherapeutic approach to add onto an already existing clinical and mental health practice.

This program focuses on bringing compassion, respect, acceptance, insight, healing, freedom and connection to humanity through an international community of skillful Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners. The CI Professional Training is meant for professionals who are already working with clients, such as counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, medical doctors, naturopaths, life coaches, and other related fields, whose scope of practice includes counseling.

Dates: September 16, 2025 – September 29, 2026

More about the Professional Training can be found here:

Learn More about the Professional Training

Biweekly Meetings: Tuesdays, 1pm-2:30pm ET with Vimalasara (Dr. Valarie Mason-John)

Enrollment Limit: Maximum 18 participants

Waitlist: Maximum 10 applicants

Application Deadlines:

Applications Open: Saturday, April 19, 2025

Subsidy Application Deadline: Sunday, July 13, 2025

Subsidy Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Subsidy Registration & Payment Deadline: Sunday, July 27, 2025

Eligibility:

To be eligible for the BTR subsidy rate, you must be a BTR Member.

If your membership is no longer active, or you do not have a paid BTR membership, join the community here to be eligible for this generous subsidy.

Once your BTR membership has been confirmed, you will be guaranteed a spot in the CI Professional Training.

Tuition:

BTR Members receive a subsidized rate of approximately $1812 US Dollars*, while regular tuition is $2800 USD.

*Please note that Compassionate Inquiry is based in Canada; therefore payment fees will be requested in Canadian Dollars (CAD), not in US Dollars (USD). This is the reason why we provide an approximate tuition fee in USD. In Canadian Dollars, the subsidized tuition for BTR Members is $2600 CAD, while regular tuition is $3900 CAD.

The application process has a $50 CAD (approx. $35 USD) non-refundable application fee. You may use the current exchange rate to convert and confirm the amount into USD. Remember that tuition may vary slightly depending on the exchange rate and bank fees.

Take the next step in your professional development and empower your clients to reconnect with their body’s innate healing processes.

About Vimalasara (Valerie Mason-John):

Dr Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John M.A (hon.doc) is an award-winning author of 8 books, including their debut fictional memoir Novel, Borrowed Body, and Detox Your Heart, Meditations for Emotional Trauma, and Eight Step Recovery Using The Buddha’s teachings to Overcome Addiction. They are co-founder of the secular 8-week course Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery MBAR and is one of the new leading African Descent Voices in the field of Mindfulness Approaches for Addiction. They are the current president of the international organization Buddhist Recovery Network, which promotes Mindfulness and Buddhism as a complementary approach working with addiction, craving, recovery, and abstinence. Vimalasara has been working in the field of inquiry over the past 15 years, as a trainer in conflict resolution and restorative justice, and as a guide with Liberation Unleashed, and a mentor in Direct Pointing. They live in British Columbia.

About our Compassionate Inquiry Creators:

Dr. Gabor Maté:
Retired physician, bestselling author, an internationally renowned speaker and the creator of the Compassionate Inquiry approach to psychotherapy.

Dr. Maté evolved his therapeutic approach over the course of a 20-year personal journey. It emerged as a synthesis of his work with patients in family practice, palliative care, and addiction rehabilitation. He later developed the system further while facilitating integration workshops focused on healing trauma through the use of psychedelics.

Sat Dharam Kaur N.D
Co-creator and CEO of Compassionate Inquiry. She supported Dr. Gabor Maté in structuring the Compassionate Inquiry approach and developing the online training.

She is a naturopathic doctor, teacher and author, who combines naturopathic medicine with Compassionate Inquiry, yoga, breathing practices and meditation to support others in healing and integrating mind, body and spirit. She is a Compassionate Inquiry Founding Facilitator, Compassionate Inquiry Mentor as well as a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner.