Creating Inner Peace
Saturday 10th January | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Cheryl Choong
Without inner peace, there is no outer peace. Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso teaches us that inner peace is essential to experience happiness. In this class, we will gain a clear knowledge of exactly what inner peace is, and how to strengthen it within our own mind.
How do I Live a Meaningful Life?
Saturday 17th January | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Kelsang Pagma
Our life often feels unfulfilled. By gaining Dharma knowledge of the inner obstacles in our heart that deny us positive feelings, we can truly make everyday meaningful and feel like our life is full of purpose.
A Powerful Year: Daily Compassion
Saturday 24th January | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Kelsang Tharlam
What we need is consistency. But in what? In moving towards a kind heart that brings ourself and others great benefit. If we take steps towards cherishing others everyday, we will experience for ourselves, the calm and stillness that comes from a mind that cherishes others.
Contentment: The Key to Joy
Saturday 31st January | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Kelsang Naljor
Is it possible to be content? Can we wholeheartedly accept things the way they are without wishing for them to be different? This special ability of contentment creates within us, a powerful experience of joy - that enables us to experience a happy life, make clear decisions and then make meaningful changes!
Stopping Anger in the World
Saturday 7th February | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Cheryl Choong
What would the world look like without anger? From world war to personal frustration, all these painful experiences can stop. What we need to learn is the wisdom method to stop anger.
The Power of Love: It might just save your life
Saturday 14th February | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Kelsang Pagma
True love comes from wisdom and compassion - a mind that wishes to benefit of all living beings. Such an all-encompassing mind can create great peace for ourselves and others, making our relationships truly meaningful and our experience of daily life so much easier
Make Your own Mala
Sunday 29th March | 10am-1pm
Workshop with Ling Brandwood
The mala, a rosary used to count recitations of prayers or mantras, is a very precious ritual object. It contains one hundred and eight beads.
In this workshop, you will learn how to make a mala (or repair an old mala) with an adjustable sliding knot.
Why do We Get Angry?
Saturday 11th April | 10am-1pm
Half-Day Course with Gen Kelsang Dema
Buddha gave very clear teachings about how anger destroys our happiness and peace of
mind and has no function other than to harm us. Once we recognise this and understand
the real causes of our anger will be highly motivated to overcome this destructive mind.
How to be Truly Patient
Saturday 11th April | 2:00-5:00pm
Half-Day Course with Kelsang Tharlam
On this half-day course, we will learn the practical methods to develop the most beautiful mind of patience.
We will also learn how, far from being a weak, passive mind, patience gives us the strength and clarity to face life’s many challenges as well as enabling us to fulfil our spiritual goals.
How to Solve our Human Problems
Saturday 18th April | 10:00am-5:00pm
Day Course with Mark Manning
Happiness, joy, as well as anxiety, stress and all the problems we experience are feelings within our mind. So the real causes of both happiness and suffering must also lie within. Through meditation, we can increase the states of mind that lead to happiness and reduce and eventually completely abandon our painful experiences.
Peaceful Mind, Happy Life
Saturday 16th May | 10:00am-5:00pm
Day Course with Kelsang Tharlam
We all have within us our own source of inner peace. Amidst the busyness of daily life, it is easy to feel disconnected from this.
On this day course, we will learn how we can create our own inner peace using simple, accessible yet profound methods and how we can create a happy life for ourself and others without needing to change our external lifestyle.
What is Meditation?
Sunday 7th June | 10:00am-1:00pm
Workshop with Gen Kelsang Dema
Have you ever wanted to know how to have a peaceful and happy mind free from stress, anxiety and frustration?
In this workshop, we will gain a clear understanding of the many benefits of meditation and learn how to meditate. There will be plenty of opportunities to practise simple meditations that remove negativity from our mind and enable us to experience real inner peace and happiness.
Kindness - A Special Gift
Sunday 21st June | 10:00am-1:00pm
Half-Day Course with Donna Healey
Through Buddha's teachings, we learn to understand and appreciate that kindness is a very special gift that allows us to develop love for others and heal our own troubled mind. When we learn how to contemplate and meditate on kindness, we will find harmony in our relationships, a peaceful, joyful mind and we will experience true happiness within.
The Path to Everlasting Happiness
Saturday 4th July | 10:00am-5:00pm
Day Course with Mark Manning
Every thought we have creates inner pathways in the mind. Learn how to create paths to happiness within our own mind through meditation. In this way, we establish a reliable, pure and everlasting reservoir of happiness and protection from within that we can take with us wherever we go.
Letting Go of Anxiety
Saturday 18th July | 10:00am-5:00pm
Day Course with Kelsang Tharlam
Uncontrolled desire, or attachment, is the source of much of our worries, anxiety and discontent.
On this day course, we will learn profound, yet simple methods derived from ancient Buddhist wisdom to overcome uncontrolled desire. Although taught thousands of years ago, they are just as relevant today.
