Cheetah House Courses
Resources for understanding and navigating meditation-related adverse effects
Featured Courses
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Meditation, Culture, and Enlightenment Machines
CourseProf. David McMahan analyzes the role of culture in meditation and explains how meditative practices are inevitably embedded in a context of ideas, ideals, cultural sensibilities, and taken-for-granted assumptions.
$40
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The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions
CourseDr. Nathan Fisher guides you through his extensive research into meditation practice related challenges in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, illuminating their conceptions of path, goal, and the potential value of "dark night" experiences.
$50
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Letters to My Former Self - Sarah Fuss Kessler
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Letters to My Former Self - Rachael Petersen
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Letters to My Former Self - Mandy Johnson
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Learning To Trust Yourself After Your Worldview Falls Apart
CourseDr. Danielle LaSusa offers her personal and professional wisdom on navigating major shifts in worldview. Told both through the lens of her meditation-related challenges as well as philosophical and pedagogical insights into worldview shifts.
$40
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Buddhist Modernism and Meditation-Related Difficulties
CourseDr. Nathan Fisher explores how Evan Thompson's recent scholarship illuminates "Buddhist modernism" and how cognitive science can help make sense of meditation-related difficulties.
$75
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MyMAP (Meditation Assessment Process)
CourseDr. Britton introduces MyMAP, a meditation assessment process and way of thinking about your goals through meditation and whether meditation is serving them.
$35
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David Treleaven and Willoughby Britton In Conversation: A Cheetah House Fundraising Event
CourseDrs. David Treleaven and Willoughby Britton discuss young meditators in distress, the issues they face, and how best to help them.
$35
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Meditation-Related Adverse Effects: One Hour Introduction
CourseTypes of adverse effects, how and why they arise, and fundamental mitigation strategies--all in under an hour!
$50
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Meditation-Related Adverse Effects Research Overview: A Three-Part Course
CourseAn up-to-date overview of research on meditation-related adverse effects from Dr. Britton's research studies and others.
$150
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The Varieties of Contemplative Experience - Two Hour Research Overview
CourseWhy the study was conducted, the range of meditation-related challenges and how people interpret and respond to them.
$50
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Meditation and Dissociation - A Course in Six Parts
BundleIncludes all six sessions by Dr. Willoughby Britton on meditation and dissociation.
$150
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Meditation and Dissociation: Parts 1, 2, and 3
CoursePart 1: Intro to Dissociation. Part 2: Signs of Dissociation. Part 3: Factors that Perpetuate Dissociation.
$75
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Meditation and Dissociation: Parts 4 & 5
CoursePart 4: Meditation and Dissociation. Part 5: The Narrative Self in Meditation and Trauma.
$75
Main instructors
Regular contributors to Cheetah House courses
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Dr. Willoughby Britton is founder of Cheetah House and director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University.
Jared Lindahl, Ph.D.
Dr. Jared Lindahl has been leading the data collection, analysis, and writing of papers for the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014.
David Cooper
David Cooper has been a research associate and project coordinator on the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014. His contributions include recruitment, interviews, data analysis, and both lead and co-authorship on nearly every project publication.
Guest instructors
Nicholas Canby, Ph.D.
Dr. Canby holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and specializes in the assessment of self-boundary phenomenology across various contexts, including meditation, psychedelics, and psychopathology.
Sarah Strohmaier, Ph.D.
Dr. Sarah Strohmaier is a Psychology lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her PhD in Psychology explored the role of dose in mindfulness-based programs and practices to improve wellbeing.
Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain and two other books.
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