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Workshop (2 hours)

Openhearted - Practices to Grow Kindness

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This workshop will run live-online via Zoom. You’ll receive an email with your Zoom link. Please check your spam and promotions folders.

Sat 24th Oct, 2pm-4pm

This session will run on Tuesday October 24, 2026, beginning at 2pm and concluding at 4pm (AEDT).

Led by Kate Duncan

To get to know more about Kate Duncan, and our other teachers visit this page.

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$49.00
$49.00
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About this workshop

Openhearted - Practices to Grow Kindness

Join Kate to explore four qualities of heart that sit at the centre of many contemplative traditions – warmth, compassion, shared joy, and equanimity. These are capacities we already have, and this workshop is a chance to practise growing them on purpose.

We'll start with the first and most foundational of the four: a warm, friendly attitude that wishes well-being on everyone it meets, including ourselves. From there we'll look at how the other three – compassion, sympathetic joy (the capacity to feel glad for someone else's good fortune), and equanimity (a steady, unshaken presence) – grow out of that same warmth, almost like branches from one root. Cultivate one, and you find you've begun cultivating them all.

The sessions will move through sitting, walking, and gentle movement practice, using simple phrases as an anchor for attention rather than a script to recite. Alongside the practice, there'll be time for discussion – how these four qualities interrelate and what it might mean to hold them not as ideals but as something like strengthening a muscle.

This is a good fit for anyone curious to go a little deeper into the wisdom traditions that informs MBSR, and into the psychology underneath it.  No prior experience is needed - just a willingness to explore.

Do I need previous meditation experience?
No. This is a great and easy introduction to mindfulness meditation principles

Session recording (one-month access)
Access to the full video recording of the session, available for one month.

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What's included?

  • 1 live-online session
  • Recording of the sessions for reflecting on afterwards

Our pricing structure

Choose What You Pay:

We offer tiered pricing to ensure cost isn't a barrier to accessing this program. Please select the amount that fits your financial situation.

Standard Rate:
The Standard Rate is our foundation rate. This is the true cost of delivering courses and retreats with experienced teachers.

Supported Rate:
If the standard price creates financial hardship, choose our Supported Rate, this partially subsidised rate is made possible by generous Donors.

We trust you to choose the rate that's right for where you are right now, no questions asked.

No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you need further assistance, contact us today.

Payment Plans:

If you would like a payment plan, you can pay in instalments using PayPal's "Pay in 4" — split your payment into 4 interest-free fortnightly payments, with no sign-up or late fees. Simply select PayPal at checkout and choose Pay in 4. Eligibility criteria apply. Learn more.

Payment options

  • Credit/debit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex)
  • Bank transfer
  • PayPal

Payment Plans Available
If you would like a payment plan, please select PayPal at the checkout. PayPal has the option Pay in 4, which will split your purchase into 4 interest-free instalments over 6 weeks.

Refunds & cancellation policy

OpenGround's programs are built around genuine commitment - yours to the program and the practice, and ours to you. When you register, your place is held and costs are committed: teacher preparation, materials, catering, and in the case of retreats, venue fees that are locked in well in advance. Our cancellation terms reflect that reality, while leaving room for the unexpected turns that life sometimes takes.

Our refund policy for workshops & 1-day events:

  • If you cancel more than 7 days before the event, you'll receive a full refund less $30.
  • If you cancel within 7 days, there is no automatic refund.

Where possible, you're welcome to transfer your place to a friend or colleague at no charge - just let us know.

Medical emergencies or significant life crises considered individually.

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