BLAIPOC Group Info Session | Compassionate Inquiry®

We invite you to join our FREE live information session on the Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training’s BLAIPOC-only group, for the September 2026 cohort, with Vimalasara (Dr. Valerie Mason-John), one of our Founding CI Facilitators.

The BLAIPOC group is open to anyone who identifies as Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, or Person of Color.

FREE Live Info Session:

DATE: April 25, 2026
TIME: 11AM – 12PM ET (Toronto time zone)
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Online on Zoom

The FREE Info Session will include:

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

The recording of the session will be sent to all registered participants.

Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training’s BLAIPOC Group

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.

Program Dates: September 14, 2026 to September 27, 2027

Enrollment Limit: Maximum 18 participants

Waitlist: Maximum 10 applicants

Learn More about the CI Professional Training

Application Deadlines:

Applications Open: Monday, April 22, 2026

Subsidy Application Deadline: Sunday, July 12, 2026

Subsidy Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Subsidy Registration & Payment Deadline: Sunday, July 26, 2026

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.

FREE Live Info Session: Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Training – BLAIPOC-Group – September 2026 Cohort