Feeling better starts with living better!
About the Retreat
The 16 Guidelines for Life are a set of timeless and universal human values that have inspired individuals for over a millennia. They offer simple steps and practical tools to help you reflect, relate more openly with others, and to bring change to your heart and mind, recognising that we are interdependent and interconnected to so many aspects of our world and what lies within it.
They offer us the opportunity to develop a warm heart, a wise mind and a happy life.
What to Expect:
The 16 guidelines revolve around four key themes: thinking wisely, acting kindly, building strong relationships, and embracing change for deeper meaning. This approach promises not just greater joy but a better world.
They are underpinned by four philosophical themes:
1. How We Think: The way we use our mind determines the way we live.
We will explore
- humility
- patience
- contentment
- delight
2. How We Act: Every skillful action makes for a better world.
We will explore
- kindness
- honesty
- generosity
- right speech
3. How We Relate: To take care of others is to take care of ourselves.
We will explore
- respect
- forgiveness
- gratitude
- loyalty
4. How We Find Meaning: If everything is changing many things are possible.
We will explore
- aspiration
- principles
- service
- courage
Schedule
First weekend: Saturday 11 April 9:00 am to Sunday 12 April 4:00 pm
Second weekend: Saturday 6th June 9:00 am to Sunday 7th June 4:00 pm
This first workshop 11-12 April explores the first 8 guidelines. Through discussion, connection and openheartedness we consider and reflect on what we think we know about each guideline and whether we can deepen that understanding even more to bring greater peace and harmony to our lives and to our world.
The second workshop on 6-7 June continues to explore the final 8 guidelines and offers a way to move forward in our lives with purpose and resolve to bring more joy into our hearts and minds as well as to those around us.
Who Should Attend?
This retreat welcomes participants of all ages and backgrounds who are seeking practical tools for meaningful change in their life, home, relationships, community or workplace. It will be of particular interest to: Change-makers and anyone working in education, healthcare, or helping fields; Yoga, mindfulness, and embodiment teachers; Coaches, mentors, and those working in corporate or organisational well-being.
Bookings
The suggested donation for this two-day weekend course is $120 (meals and accommodation are not included). A donation of $120 covers the organizer’s costs and helps sustain the Centre so they can continue offering teachings to the wider community. However – you are welcome to offer whatever amount you feel comfortable with.
Sangha are always able to attend our courses free of charge, please contact spc@chenrezig.com.au for discount code to register.
This retreat will be held in the Wellbeing Centre, in person only.
For more information and bookings, please visit Chenrezig Institute – 16 Guidelines
Facilitator
Ven. Tsultrim was ordained in 2009 at Chenrezig Institute in Australia. She has spent much of the last several years in India and Nepal doing retreat, listening to different teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist lineages and visiting many pilgrimage sites. She is currently living at Chenrezig Institute and continue working at Karuna Hospice Service in Brisbane as a counsellor and the Spiritual Program Coordinator. She has worked for many years in suicide prevention and intervention.
She has a very strong conviction that most of us can find contentment in our lives irrespective of our external circumstances through understanding and training our minds, particularly through using mindfulness. She has a Bachelor of Counselling, a Bachelor of Social Science (Social Policy), and Master of International Studies (Peace and Conflict Resolution).
