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
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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.
