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VENERABLE ROBINA COURTIN
Venerable Robina Courtin has been a nun for over 20 years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Venerable Robina spent 10 years editing for Wisdom Publications followed by over 5 years as the main editor of Mandala, the international Buddhist news magazine of the FPMT. Venerable Robina travels the world teaching Buddhism to students of all ages and levels.
PUBLIC TALK: TRUE KINDNESS
with Venerable Robina Courtin
Friday 20 July, 7.00 – 8.30 pm
Facilitation Fee: $18
What does it mean to act with kindness toward others? Can angry behaviour be a kindness and can soft words hide a poor heart? If the ultimate goal is to enlighten sentient beings, will our behaviour be different to simply making them feel good about themselves?
Venerable Robina will give us insights into the nature of kindness as we understand it and as the Buddha would teach about it.
LOOSENING THE GRIP OF EGO
with Venerable Robina Courtin
Saturday 21 July, 10.00 – 4.00 pm, and Sunday 22 July, 10.00 – 1.00 pm
Facilitation Fee: $100 / $90 members & concessions
His Holiness often notes that scientists find that those who frequently use the word “I“ suffer more from health issues such as heart problems. So, do we need to change our relationship with ourselves and our inner psyche?
Venerable Robina will explore the problems of attachment to ego as explained by the Buddha. The Buddha’s teachings also give us ways to modify behaviour and motivation to reduce the grip on self and to place the emphasis on others.

Cultivating Emotional Balance 2018

Take control of your wellbeing and learn to understand your emotions

Our emotions create richness in our life – they help us navigate our lives, discern what we need, and relate to others. Yet, overwhelming emotions can leave us feeling triggered, stressed, drained, disempowered from our own mental processes, and can result in fractured relationships with others. The information and training from this course will transform your emotional inner world, so you become a skilled ‘emotional athlete’ that is calm, present and positively engaged with others.

What is CEB?

Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an evidence based training aimed at helping participants develop emotional regulation by:

• Understanding how emotions function and develop
• Influencing the progression of an emotion, in order to shape the form it takes
• Learning and training in mindfulness and attentional skills
• Identifying purpose, and meaningful goals in our life
• Reducing destructive emotions and cultivating constructive emotions
• Developing and practicing compassionate and balanced connection with others

CEB draws on the wisdom of contemplative meditation practices and emotional research to develop emotion skills to help people to better understand their emotional life, and thereby increase constructive and decrease destructive emotional engagements.

Course Structure and Dates

This course is offered as 6 Sunday sessions, once a month between 10.30-4pm
To complete the full course (42 hours), you must do a minimum 2 hours homework per session (12 hours total) consisting of meditations, readings and reflections. It is possible to attend individual sessions, however, you will be required to attend or listen to part of a recording of the first session as a prerequisite for joining subsequent sessions.

Cost:
All 6 Sessions: $300
Each Session: $55

About Jude Milan
Jude has a background is science, primarily in Human Movement Studies and Environment. Combining her interest in biology with her passion for yoga she trained as a yoga teacher in 2005 and has been teaching since that time.

Jude has travelled over much of Asia and has taught yoga and meditation to students in Nepal, India, Indonesia and Australia. She has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism since her early adulthood and has been deeply moved and influenced by the yogic philosophy in this tradition.

Jude has witnessed the physical and mental/ emotional benefits of meditation and yoga has brought to both herself and others over the years. Motivated by the benefits she has experience in these contemplative traditions combined with her deep respect for the method of scientific enquiry she trained as a Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) teacher in 2017 and aspires to share the benefits of this method of training with others.

About CEB:
The Cultivating Emotional Balance Training emerged from the Destructive Emotions dialogue between behavioural scientists and the Dalai Lama, Buddhist monks, and scholars at the Mind and Life Institute in Dharamsala, India, in March of 2000. At the culmination of this meeting the Dalai Lama requested that the important ideas raised in these sessions, specifically how to manage the everyday obstacles of our destructive emotions, be turned into an accessible secular training.

Meditations begin 7pm.

Senior students will lead meditations where the emphasis is on placing the mind on an object such as the mind, feelings or the body.  We will begin each session with some breath meditation.

By donation

June 4th Introduction

June 11th Placement on the body

June 25th Placement on the mind

July 2nd Placement on feelings

July 9th Placement on phenomena

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species. (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

The great masters developed compassion as a living art. These teachings lead us step by step through this process. Geshe Sonam has studied for many years and can answer all our questions in depth. These teachings contain  advice on everything from how to deal with  relationships to taking the path to full enlightenment.

Our first session by Skype link was a great Success. We will continue the teachings on June 18th.  Ana will translate via a Skype link.

June 18th 7-9 pm

Fee: $20