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SUMMARY:16G L1 Building Inner Strength | Marisa Femenia - in Spanish - Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:16G L1 Building Inner Strength | Marisa Femenia – in Spanish« All Events\nThis event has passed.\nOctober 26\, 2024 @ 10:00 – October 27\, 2024 @ 14:00 CEST\n€20 – €60\nIf you’re seeking practical tools to bring about positive change in your life\, this experiential course is for you.\nYou’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.\nDrawing 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.\nWhat you’ll learn:\nEthical practices to all aspects of life by using a set of practical and transformative tools.\nIdentify your own practice of mindful qualities in your personal and professional practices.\nIntegrate and apply mindfulness to the four wisdom themes of the 16 G: Mindful thought; mindful actions; mindful relationships; and mindful purpose and livelihood\nDates: This course is delivered in person on Saturday 26th Oct and Sunday 27th Oct\, from 10 am Sat to 14 pm Sunday ( with breaks).\nAll times displayed are local)\nBookings and Cost:\nThe suggested donation is €60 (€20 for friends of Nagarjuna Madrid)\, for more information and to register\, please visit the Nagarjuna Madrid page\nFacilitator: Marisa Femenia –Marisa is an accredited 16G Level 1 and Level 2 facilitator\, she lives in Madrid and has a background in education working for 30 years as an elementary teacher. She met the Buddhist teachings when she turned 30 and for many years she tried to convey to the children what she was learning from her teachers. Currently she coordinates the Universal Education group in Madrid. She says that the 16 Guidelines are: Un viaje al interior\, basado en valores universales del ser humano\, más allá de toda religión\, país\, cultura o frontera. (An inner journey based on universal human values\, beyond any religion\, country\, culture or borders).
URL:https://lotus.fpmt.org/event/16g-l1-building-inner-strength-marisa-femenia-in-spanish-foundation-for-developing-compassion-and-wisdom/
CATEGORIES:Secular Ethics
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SUMMARY:Building Resilience through Balanced Empathy with Tenzin Chogkyi | 2hr workshop - Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:Building Resilience through Balanced Empathy with Tenzin Chogkyi | 2hr workshop« All Events\nThis event has passed.\nOctober 27\, 2024 @ 10:30 – 12:30 UTC-4\n$5 – $30\nBuilding Resilience through Balanced Empathy is a dynamic and practical 2-hour workshop designed to explore empathy and emotional resilience. You will learn techniques empowering you to relate to yourself and others in healthy and more balanced ways. Join Tenzin Chogkyi as we explore how we can generate a compassionate response in the face of others’ suffering and our own. Sunday workshop open to everyone!\nOverview :\nOur lives can sometimes feel overwhelming as we face global and national crises\, in addition to difficulties in our work and family lives. And sometimes in the face of others’ distress and suffering\, we can feel overwhelmed or shut down. How do we generate a compassionate response in the face of others’ suffering and our own? How do we increase our own resilience and ability to meet these challenges?\nThe answer is balanced empathy\, which helps us build a way of relating to others that doesn’t burn us out\, but draws forth our best ability to help ourselves and others.\nThis course will help you:\nExplore what causes you to feel emotionally overwhelmed\nIncrease mental and emotional resilience\nLearn how to skillfully balance your responses and behaviors\nDevelop better self-understanding and therefore real empathy for others\nIdentify what pushes you out of balance\, allowing the space for wiser choices\nBuild closer\, more nurturing relationships with family\, friends\, and co-workers\nThis course is for people of all ages and backgrounds. It is designed for those who want to strengthen their inner resources which help build deep and sustainable connections and relationships.\nWHEN: on Sunday 27th Oct from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm ( EDT)\nWHERE: Online only\nFACILITATOR: Tenzin Chogkyi\nMORE INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: please check the Shantideva Center website\nMeet the Facilitator:\nTenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought\, contemplative practice\, mental and emotional cultivation\, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period and took monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama\, practicing as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.\nShe is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation\, but social and cultural transformation as well. She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She is featured on a monthly radio show called “Reflections on Buddhism” on KSQD 90.7 in the Santa Cruz area. She also finds time to create her Unlocking True Happiness podcast which you can check out at unlockingtruehappiness.org where you will also find her current teaching schedule. She is currently based on traditional Awaswas Ohlone land\, in what is now known as Santa Cruz\, CA.
URL:https://lotus.fpmt.org/event/building-resilience-through-balanced-empathy-with-tenzin-chogkyi-2hr-workshop-foundation-for-developing-compassion-and-wisdom/
CATEGORIES:Meditation,Secular Ethics
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