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SUMMARY:Online:  A MINDFUL HEART - Weekly sessions for a happier\, more meaningful life!
DESCRIPTION:About the Course and the Sessions\nA Mindful Heart is a new 12-week course developed by the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW)\, inspired by Pam Cayton’s Creating Compassionate Cultures program and currently being offered as a pilot by Land of Joy. \nThis course is designed to support participants in developing a deeper understanding of how the mind works\, gradually letting go of destructive patterns of thought and behaviour while cultivating a healthy self-confidence and a deep\, compassionate connection with others. \nWhat Will Be Offered\nA Mindful Heart is a structured 12-week program designed to help participants understand the mind\, transform patterns\, and live with purpose. The course explores three core pathways of learning: Knowledge\, Strength\, and Compassion\, guiding participants toward a happier\, more meaningful life. \nThe course is delivered in 12 sessions: \nSession 1: The Pursuit of HappinessSession 2: Understanding How Things ExistSession 3: Developing Healthy Self-ConfidenceSession 4: Compassion – Opening the HeartSession 5: Mindfulness\, Reflection and Critical ThinkingSession 6: Mindful Intention: What do I really want?Session 7: InterconnectionSession 8: Embracing ChangeSession 9: PerceptionSession 10: Transforming Harmful EmotionsSession 11: EmpathySession 12: Cultivating Compassion \n\n\nWho is the Course For?\n\nThis course is for anyone who: \n\nWould like to understand the mind and change unhelpful patterns: Explore how thoughts and emotions shape experience\, and learn practical ways to respond with greater clarity and balance.\nIs seeking meaningful\, grounded personal growth: Develop healthy self-confidence\, emotional resilience\, and a clearer sense of purpose—step by step\, without quick fixes or dogma.\nCares about compassion in daily life: Cultivate compassion as a lived skill\, starting with yourself and naturally extending to your relationships and community.\nValues reflective learning in a supportive environment: Whether you’re new to mindfulness or already experienced\, the course offers accessible practices\, thoughtful dialogue\, and flexible ways to participate.\n\nNo previous experience of Buddhism or retreat is needed\, just openness and curiosity. \n\n\nWhy Attend?\n\n\n\n\nIs there anyone who doesn’t want to experience more spaciousness\, contentment and joy? The message of the Buddha is that this is definitely possible\, whatever practical difficulties we might be facing in our everyday life. \nThis retreat will offer the opportunity to: \n\nGain clearer understanding of your mind and habits\nBuild emotional strength and healthy self-confidence\nDevelop practical\, lived compassion for yourself and others\nAlign your life more closely with what truly matters\n\n\nCost and Schedule\nThis program is offered by donation. \nDate: Wednesdays 7pm-8:10pm UK time from the 18th February until the 6th May \nYou are welcome to commit to the full course or attend on a drop-in-basis \nHow to Book\nFor more information on how to book your place or to make a donation\, please visit the Land of Joy event page here \nFacilitator \nWendy Ridley – \nWendy worked for many years in education – as a teacher\, university lecturer\, Education Authority advisor\, and education consultant. This has provided her with skills and passion to develop and deliver training programmes. Since attending her first meditation course in 1976 she has volunteered in six very different meditation centres. Wendy is a senior FDCW Faculty member teaching internationally all levels of FDCW’s programmes and is the FPMT Service Seminar Co-Ordinator. She is an FDCW board\, member\, a trained yoga teacher\, and has enjoyed many retreats.
URL:https://compassionandwisdom.org/event/online-a-mindful-heart-weekly-sessions-for-a-happier-more-meaningful-life/2026-05-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Dialogues,Meditation
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SUMMARY:Loving kindness Retreat - A Journey into Compassion and Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:About the Retreat\n\n\n\nThis weekend retreat at Land of Joy is an invitation to open our hearts to the power of loving kindness — for ourselves\, for others\, and for the world we share. \nThrough a blend of teachings\, guided meditations\, group discussion\, and gentle body practices\, teachers Lou Beaumont and Paula Chichester will guide us in exploring kindness as a profound source of strength and happiness. Together\, we will look closely at what supports kindness\, what can prevent it\, and how we can cultivate it in daily life with courage\, balance\, and warmth. \nShort sessions of pranayama and chi gong will support the retreat by relaxing the body and mind\, creating an open foundation from which loving kindness can naturally grow. These embodied practices will be woven gently alongside Dharma reflections and opportunities to share and learn from one another. \nThemes We Will Explore\nThe courage and strength of kindness: exploring how kindness is a source of resilience and joy\, and how gentle body practices like pranayama and chi gong can help the heart and mind soften to embody this quality. \n\nUnderstanding and responding to others: developing clarity and compassion in how we meet the needs of others\, supported by practices that open awareness and presence in the body.\nReflecting on kindness: recalling times we have given and received kindness\, using body-based practices to deepen connection to these experiences.\nOvercoming obstacles to kindness: exploring what can close the heart and mind\, and using breath and movement to release tension and cultivate equanimity.\nKindness and self-love: recognising that caring for ourselves is the foundation for genuine kindness to others\, and learning how embodiment practices support self-awareness and inner balance.\n\nWho Should Attend?\nThis retreat is for anyone who wishes to live with more warmth\, compassion\, and courage. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner\, you are welcome. \nSchedule\nIn person- Friday 15th – Sunday 17th May \n\nBookings \nFor more information and bookings\, please visit the Land of Joy dedicated page
URL:https://compassionandwisdom.org/event/loving-kindness-retreat-a-journey-into-compassion-and-equanimity/
LOCATION:Land of Joy\, Greenhaugh Hall Greenhaugh\, Hexham Northumberland\, NE48 1PP\, 5MGG+XQ Greenhaugh\, Hexham\, Reino Unido\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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SUMMARY:Falling in Love with the Future - An experiential\, Nature Based Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This gathering is for the curious\, the weary\, the wild-hearted. No previous experience is needed—just a willingness to be surprised by your own aliveness. Whether you come alone or with friends\, you’ll be met with warmth\, spaciousness\, and good compost for your soul. \nAbout this Retreat\nJoin us for a beautiful\, relaxing\, and deeply meaningful gathering in the heart of nature—held over the luminous days of the Summer Solstice at the serene sanctuary of Land of Joy. This is not just a retreat. It’s a remembering. A re-rooting. A celebration. From Friday 19th – Monday 22nd June \n\n\n\nWhat’s Alive in This Workshop? \nOver a long summer solstice weekend\, we’ll immerse ourselves in the wild stillness and soft rhythms of the land. Together\, we will: \n\nRest in the quiet magic of reflection spaces\, birdsong\, and breeze.\nShare in the collective joy of meditation\, breath\, and gentle movement under open skies.\nSavour wholesome\, nourishing food\, prepared with care and shared in gratitude.\nGather around the fire in the long golden evenings to celebrate joy\, stories\, and seasonal aliveness.\nPractice being human together—with tenderness\, play\, and deep listening.\nThis is a space to unplug from urgency and reclaim connection—with yourself\, with others\, and with the living world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy “Fall in Love with the Future”?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecause in a world swirling with uncertainty\, we need new myths. New narratives. New ways of being-with the unknown. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ll tend the soil of possibility\, and open to a simple but profound truth: Our joy arises from our natural state of inter-being. \nOver these Solstice days\, we will:\nLearn to love ourselves—as part of nature\, not apart from it.\nLearn to love each other—with kindness\, courage\, and honesty.\nLearn to love the Earth—not as an idea\, but as kin.\nAnd yes… learn to fall in love with the future—not through control\, but through connection. \nWho is this Retreat for:\nThis gathering is for the curious\, the weary\, the wild-hearted. No previous experience is needed—just a willingness to be surprised by your own aliveness. Whether you come alone or with friends\, you’ll be met with warmth\, spaciousness\, and good compost for your soul.\nCome Join Us\nLet this be a pause from performance. A ritual of remembering. A small\, sacred step toward a world where we fall in love—not with perfection\, but with what is still possible.\n✨ Let the land love you back. ✨ Let the future become your ally. ✨ Let yourself come alive \n\nBookings  \nFor more information and bookings\, please visit the Land of Joy dedicated page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator: Paul Wielgus -Paul spent a large part of his working life facilitating groups of all sizes\, as well as one to one coaching\, up until 1999 when he left a large organisation to set up his 2 businesses\, Dragonfly Coaching For Life and Social Innovation (2020 Vision). In 2019 he decided to stop all his commercial life to dedicate his time to activism with Extinction Rebellion and XR Buddhists \nHis core belief (and experience) is that in activism and in life\, the most important thing is to learn not how to fix things\, but instead to try to learn how to find creative and courageous\, kind and wise responses to the many challenges we face. Finding Joy is a key aspect of this work. \nHe lives in Somerset with his lovely partner Ros\, where a significant part of their lives is dedicated to serving their unpredictable cat\, Olly.
URL:https://compassionandwisdom.org/event/falling-in-love-with-the-future-an-experiential-nature-based-workshop/
LOCATION:Land of Joy\, Greenhaugh Hall Greenhaugh\, Hexham Northumberland\, NE48 1PP\, 5MGG+XQ Greenhaugh\, Hexham\, Reino Unido\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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SUMMARY:Building Inner Strength with the 16 Guidelines -  Retreat with Wendy Ridley
DESCRIPTION:Feeling overwhelmed by global crises\, work\, family\, or personal challenges? Seeking practical tools for positive change and emotional resilience? This experiential weekend retreat is designed for you. \nAbout the Retreat\n\n\n\nWe will explore embodied mindfulness and universal ethical values in this Level 1 of the 16 Guidelines for Life Program developed by the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW). The program offers a simple yet profound framework for reflecting on how we think\, act\, relate to others\, and find meaning. Through mindfulness\, self-inquiry\, and ethical reflection\, we will gain tools to foster well-being\, purpose\, and inner strength. \nWhat to Expect: \nOver the weekend\, we’ll engage in mindfulness practices including mindful walks in nature\, interactive activities\, and relaxed discussions. Drawing on positive psychology\, neuroscience\, social justice practices\, and centuries-old Eastern philosophy\, this retreat offers a holistic and ethical approach to personal and community transformation. \nWho Should Attend?\nThis 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. \nWhat you’ll learn: \n\nAn ethical framework that inspires more purpose in life and deepens experience in mindfulness as an embodied practice.\nPractical tools to build inner strength which will benefit relationships and embrace community\nA fresh perspective on daily life\, available choices and actions\nEnhanced capacity for reflection\, resulting in more well-being\, emotional resilience and creative action\n\n\nDates and Bookings  \nDate: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th July \nFor more information and bookings\, please visit Land of Joy – 16 Guidelines \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator \nWendy Ridley – Wendy has 40 years experience working in education – as a teacher\, university lecturer\, education department advisor and consultant specialising in religious education and philosophical enquiry. This has provided her with skills and passion to develop\, deliver and oversee training programmes. Wendy has been involved in the development of FDCW as a Board member since 2004 and as a Senior 16G Facilitator. She has worked in 6 very different Buddhist centres and was the director of Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds for over 7 years.
URL:https://compassionandwisdom.org/event/16g-l1-building-inner-strength-retreat-wendy-ridley/
LOCATION:Land of Joy\, Greenhaugh Hall Greenhaugh\, Hexham Northumberland\, NE48 1PP\, 5MGG+XQ Greenhaugh\, Hexham\, Reino Unido\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:16 Guidelines
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