Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom

16G L1 Building Inner Strength | Rifugio Novezzina - in Italian
2024-10-11 18:00 - 2024-10-13 13:00 (Europe/Rome) | Rifugio Novezzina, Località Novezzina, Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Veneto, 37020, Italy
About this course
If you’re seeking practical tools to bring about positive change in your life, this experiential course is for you.
You’ll explore the 16 Guidelines framework to enhance your capacity for personal reflection, resulting in a greater sense of well-being, confidence, purpose and emotional resilience.
Drawing on proven techniques from positive psychology, neuroscience and centuries-old Eastern philosophy, you’ll develop an ethical, holistic approach to self-improvement and cultural change.
What you’ll learn:

Ethical practices to all aspects of life by using a set of practical and transformative tools.
Identify your own practice of mindful qualities in your personal and professional practices.
Integrate and apply mindfulness to the four wisdom themes of the 16 G: Mindful thought; mindful actions; mindful relationships; and mindful purpose and livelihood

Dates:
This course is delivered in person from Friday 11th October at 18:00 to Sunday 13th October at 13:00.
Location:
Rifugio Novezzina (All times displayed are local)
Bookings and Cost:
The cost for the course is €170, which includes meals and accommodation. For more information and to register, please contact:
Email: rifugio@ilpontecooperativasociale.it
Phone: +39 34 70 97 15 66
Facilitators:
Maria Luisa Costantino is an Italy-based educator and clinical pedagogist with over 30 years of experience working with disadvantaged children. She integrates scientific research with contemplative practices inspired by Buddhism, and is an accredited 16 Guidelines (16G) Level 1 and 2 facilitator. Maria conducts workshops in Italian and has collaborated with the Karuna Home in India, supporting individuals with disabilities. Her approach blends clinical pedagogy with mindfulness, empowering individuals to lead their own growth.
Sabrina De Chirico is an experienced facilitator based in Italy, specialising in leadership, youth work, community building, and education. She is accredited in 16 Guidelines (16G) Level 1 and 2, 16G for children and teens, Building Balanced Empathy, and Unlocking Your Potential. Sabrina delivers workshops in both English and Italian. Her work is driven by a deep commitment to helping others lead more serene lives, and she integrates mindfulness into her daily practice to support personal and collective growth.

The Myths We Live By With Karuna Cayton | Open Sessions
2024-09-29 10:30 - 2024-10-06 12:00 (America/Denver) | Online
Most of us as humans are constantly looking for ways to fix our internal problems and our external world. We see the world and ourselves in a “mythological” way and as a result, we generate numerous “mini” myths that further compound our problems in life. Join Karuna Cayton as we explore the source of our problems from a Buddhist perspective. Sunday sessions Open to everyone!
Overview :
Through insightful teachings and guided practices, you will:

Confront the Myth of Permanence: We cling to the illusion of lasting happiness and stability, yet everything is in constant flux. Explore how embracing impermanence can lead to greater peace and resilience.
Challenge the Myth of Happiness: Our relentless pursuit of external happiness often leads to disappointment. Discover the true nature of lasting well-being that resides within.
Question the Myth of Randomness: Life may seem chaotic and unpredictable, but underlying patterns and causes are at play. Learn to see the interconnectedness of all things and make conscious choices.

By delving into these and other myths, you will gain profound insights into the nature of suffering and the path to liberation. Karuna Cayton’s unique blend of Buddhist wisdom and modern psychology offers practical tools to transform your relationship with yourself, others, and the world around you.
This program is for everyone, no background or experience in Buddhism is required. You can drop into the classes as it suits your schedule or come to all of them.

WHEN: on Sundays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm ( PDT)
WHERE: Online and in person
FACILITATOR: Karuna Cayton
MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: please check the Land of Medicine Buddha events page

Meet the Facilitator:

Karuna Cayton acquired a Masters in Clinical Psychology in 1992. He is a licensed Psychotherapist having trained at the Children’s Health Council in Palo Alto, California.
From 1975 to 1988 he lived at Kopan Monastery studying Buddhist psychology and philosophy under the guidance of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. There, he established a western studies program for the monks.
He is the principal at The Karuna Group, a project engaged in interpreting Buddhist psychological theory and interventions for modern people.
He is the author of The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them (2012).

Parenting with Compassion & Wisdom | Open Sessions With Pam Cayton
2024-09-28 10:30 - 2024-10-05 12:30 (America/Denver) | Online
This series of 4 classes leads us along a journey of reflection, discussion, and practical application for our everyday lives as parents.
We follow the framework developed over 35 years at Tara Redwood School, the model school for Creating Compassionate Cultures. It is a secular program based on ancient wisdom and contemporary science and was inspired by Lama Thubten Yeshe, who talked about his concept of Universal Education.
Saturday sessions Open to everyone!
Overview :
Class One:Parent as Guide and Role Model:Through reflection, we connect with aspects of our lives that have influenced our parenting styles. What do we want to strengthen and what would we like to change We explore the question, what do I really want, what are our deepest wishes for our home, ourselves, and our children?
Class TwoCreating Our Dreams:We explore practical and constructive ways to guide our children and nurture what we really want for our children and family. Through understanding the nature of all things as interconnected and in the nature of change, we find we have infinite possibilities to achieve our dreams.
Class Three:Our journey continues as we explore the psychology of ourselves as parents. We explore how emotion is triggered and how we can start to change emotional triggers. We learn about practical tools to help our children develop skills for transforming their emotions.
Class Four:
We now expand our deeper understanding to include others in our families, communities, and the world. What we have discovered together and integrated into our home has been nurturing empathy and compassion. We look at ways to empower and engage in compassion in action.
This program is for everyone, no background or experience in Buddhism is required. You can drop into the classes as it suits your schedule or come to all of them.

WHEN: on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm ( PDT)
WHERE: Online and in person
FACILITATOR: Pam Cayton
MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: please check the Land of Medicine Buddha events page

Meet the Facilitator:

Pam Cayton lived in Nepal from 1978-88 where she studied Buddhism, taught English and helped organize courses in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. In 1981, she founded The Himalayan Yogic Institute, now the Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Center in Kathmandu.
After moving to the United States in 1988 with her husband and children, and inspired by her teacher Lama Thubten Yeshe’s concept of Universal Education, she founded Tara Preschool in 1989. Tara Preschool expanded into Tara Redwood School in 1998. In 2008 the curriculum developed at Tara Redwood School developed into an international program: Creating Compassionate Cultures.
Pam has taught and offered workshops in more than 10 countries around the world and she has spoken at notable conferences such as the Happiness Conference in San Francisco, the Mind and Its Potential in Sydney, Australia, and Empathy and Compassion in Society in London, England.

Art, Nature et les 16 Attitudes | en français
2024-07-27 10:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris) | Vajra Yogini, les clauzades, Marzens, tarn, 81500, France
Aperçu de l’atelier :
Rendez les 16 attitudes vivantes !
Explorez de manière ludique et expérimentale les 16 attitudes à travers l’art et la nature. Nous travaillerons avec l’art (visuel, musical ou écrit) pendant la moitié de la journée, puis nous irons dans la nature pour l’autre moitié. Nous aurons l’occasion d’explorer une œuvre d’art et de créer nos propres œuvres. Tout au long de la journée, nous cultiverons une présence bienveillante envers notre environnement extérieur et intérieur grâce à des pratiques de pleine conscience.
Venez explorer, créer et vous connecter à la nature avec vos amis et votre famille.
Cet atelier d’une journée est ouvert à tous à partir de 12 ans. Avec Mabel Odessey
Participation
par donation avec une suggestion de 35€
Schedule
27 juillet 2024 – 10H – 17h30, CET
FACILITATRICE : Mabel Odessey
INSCRIPTIONS : 16attitudes@gmail.com
Meet our Facilitator:

Mabel is an accredited 16G Level 1, Level 2 and 16G for Children and Teens as well as Building Balanced Empathy facilitator. She is a founder member of Education Universelle France and she also works as a photographer and lives in France.
Mabel has completed the 2nd year MSc (Masters in Mindfulness and Compassion) at the University of the West of Scotland, and has received a post graduate diploma. She has been trained to teach the MBLC and CBLC course by the UK Mindfulness Association..
Her workshop on Kindful Communication was featured at the FDCW’s Compassion and Wisdom conference 2021

Encuentro Conmingo, Encuentro con el Otro | en español
2024-07-26 10:30 - 2024-07-28 13:30 (Europe/Madrid) | Centro de Meditación Tushita, 3 Carrer Pla de Montfalcó, Viladrau, girona, 17406, Spain
This course is facilitated in Spanish in person.
Este curso se facilita en español en persona.
Este curso ofrece un espacio de descanso y observación, para poder encontrarnos con nuestra mente, comprenderla y aprender a cuidarla.
En un primer bloque abordaremos las condiciones que favorecen esta observación, a partir de herramientas contemplativas que nos ayudarán a identificar y gestionar nuestras tendencias internas.
En un segundo bloque, podremos abordar cuáles son aquellos obstáculos con los que nos encontramos en el día a día en relación a las demás personas.
El último bloque lo dedicaremos al desarrollo de nuestras propias potencialidades de apertura, amor y respeto hacia los demás, como guía y motivación vital.
Los contenidos se ofrecerán a partir de una metodología apoyada en las bases de la filosofía y psicología budistas, desde su vertiente universal y accesible a cualquier persona.
A quién va dirigido
A cualquier persona interesada en el tema.
Contenidos

Bloque I: El encuentro conmigo (meditaciones en la atención, calma mental, etc..

Bloque II: El encuentro con el otro (el cultivo de la Balanza de le Empatía

Bloque III: Camino de vida (la motivación, la compasión, la vida dedicada a los demás)

Objetivos

Adquirir herramientas para poder observar y comprender el comportamiento de nuestra mente

Explorar métodos para poder transformar aquellas tendencias que consideremos no beneficiosas

Desarrollar aquellas capacidades que nos aportan bienestar a nosotras y a las otras personas

Metodología
Los contenidos se ofrecerán a partir de una metodología apoyada en las bases de la filosofía y psicología budistas, desde su vertiente universal y accesible a cualquier persona. Parte de los contenidos están extraídos de materiales realizados por la Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
Este curso está organizado por el centro de Meditacion Tushita Girona ( España), para mas información y reservas visita la web del centro

Conoce al facilitador:
Germán Rodriguez-Germán es diplomado en Educación Social. Actualmente forma parte del Servicio de Apoyo y Atención Emocional (SSAE) del Consorcio de Educación de Barcelona. A lo largo de los últimos veinte años ha acompañado a niños, adolescentes, familias y docentes en relación con la gestión de las emociones y del conflicto, tanto desde iniciativas propias (Proyecto CREC, Espai Refugi, etc..) como formando parte de diferentes entidades (Escuela Terapéutica Bellaire, Suara, etc.) Es estudiante y practicante de budismo desde hace más de quince años y ha completado el programa de estudios avanzados Masters Program of Advanced Studies of Sutra and Tantra. Es maestro registrado por la Fundación para la Preservación de la Tradición Mahayana (FPMT) y formador acreditado por FDCW…

16G L1 | Building Inner Strength
2024-07-07 16:00 - 2024-07-28 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Join us for this 16 Guidelines level 1 course facilitated by Janna Weiss and Ruth Cook in 4 online sessions on Sundays
About the course
The 12-hours, Building Inner Strength – 16 Guidelines for Life program offers a learning path to transformative change.
The 16 Guidelines program provides a simple, robust and flexible framework for developing emotional resilience, empathy, compassion and transformative change, suitable for both educational curricula and for personal and professional development. If you’re seeking practical tools to bring about positive change in your life, this experiential course is for you.
You’ll explore the 16 Guidelines framework to deepen your experience in mindfulness and resilience, as an embodied practice. Drawing on proven techniques from positive psychology, social justice practices, neuroscience and centuries-old Eastern philosophy, you’ll develop an ethical, holistic approach to self-improvement and cultural change.
This course is recognized by Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom, as part of their Training Pathway to become an Accredited 16 Guidelines Level 1 Facilitator.
What you’ll learn

Increased emotional resilience by using a set of practical and transformative tools
Identify and apply your own embodied practice of mindful qualities in your personal and professional life
A greater capacity for insight and personal reflection and a greater sense of well-being, confidence and purpose
Integrate and apply mindfulness and other practical tools to the four wisdom themes of the 16 G: Mindful thought; mindful actions; mindful relationships; and mindful purpose and livelihood

Schedule: 4 online Sunday sessions from 4 pm BST to 7 pm BST, from the 7th to the 28th July
Who is this course for?
This online 16G Level One course is for people of all ages, backgrounds and ideas, who are looking for practical tools to create positive transformation in their homes, individual lives, relationships, community, or workplace.
Bookings and more info
For more info and to register please fill in this form
Facilitator Janna Weiss and Ruth Cook

Janna is an acupuncturist and herbalist, and teaches mind science in New York City. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Biological Sciences—Botany (ethnobotany). Janna is also a human rights activist, for peace, for Tibet, for the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities, and for the real rights of children and families. Janna began studying Tibetan Buddhism in 2005. She is an accredited 16 Guidelines Level 1 & 2 and Unlocking Your Potential Facilitator, and an Empathy Circle Facilitator.

Ruth was a Paramedic in the USA, along with being an instructor/teacher/coach of Swimming, Latin American Dance, Radio Astronomy, Gliding, and Reiki. Based in the UK, Ruth is an accredited 16G Level 1 Facilitator and an Empathy Circle Facilitator.

Cultiver la Gratitude | en français
2024-06-29 10:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Centre Kalachakra, 5 Pass. Delessert, Paris, 75010, France
« La gratitude est l’un des plus doux raccourcis pour trouver la paix et le bonheur intérieur. »
-Sa Sainteté Le Dalaï-Lama
Please note this workshop is offered in French.
Aperçu de l’atelier :
La gratitude nous aide à retenir, célébrer et apprécier chaque jour, avant que celui-ci nous échappe dans le sablier de l’expérience. Cet atelier explorera les moyens d’apprivoiser la gratitude, de la provoquer et de la cultiver pour s’imprégner de toute sa puissance.
La sagesse de la gratitude se manifeste en changeant de regard. Elle embrasse toutes les peines de l’existence pour mieux les transfigurer. Comment la réjouissance, l’humilité et l’acceptation permettent-elles de laisser fleurir la gratitude dans notre quotidien ? Comment la gratitude est-elle source de générosité et de compassion ?
Cet atelier très pratique alternera apports théoriques, échanges et méditations sur les questions suivantes :
– Comment cultiver la gratitude en soi et dans son rapport au monde ?
– Quel sont les obstacles à la gratitude et comment les surmonter ?
– Quelles qualités développer pour générer la gratitude dans son quotidien ?
Schedule

DATE: 29 June 2024
HORAIRE: 10.00 – 18.00
LIEU: En Presentiel, Centre Kalachakra a Paris
FACILITATRICE: Virginie Cornet-Butcher
INSCRIPTIONS: info@centre-kalachakra.net

Meet the Facilitator:

Psychologue de formation, Virginie CB étudie le bouddhisme depuis une vingtaine d’années et elle est enseignante certifiée de la FPMT. Elle facilite différents ateliers au centre, associant les savoirs de la psychologie occidentale et ceux de la psychologie bouddhiste.
