Raquel Mason, the Director of Akshay School in Bodhgaya (India), has been incorporating the 16 Guidelines into the school’s curriculum since she completed a 16 Guidelines Level 1 course taught by facilitator Wendy Ridley in 2013.
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Ofir Levit is a 16 Guidelines facilitator who founded “The Jaffa Balcony" in Israel - a place where women of different religious backgrounds can meet and connect. She describes how the Balcony came about and what she has learned during the process.
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Después de un curso de 16 actitudes para Niños y Adolescentes en 2008, Laura y Maricruz se sintieron tan inspiradas que decidieron crear una escuela... así lo hicieron, literalmente, ladrillo por ladrillo. La escuela hoy tiene 131 niños con 14 profesores que trabajan con el programa de las.16 Actitudes.
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Following a 16 Guidelines course for Children & Teens in 2008, Laura and Maricruz felt inspired to build a school… so they did, literally brick-by-brick. The school today has 131 children with 14 teachers who are involved in the 16 Guidelines program.
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Ianzhina Bartanova, Executive Director, FPMT Mongolia has reported on the success of the recent Building on the Basics, 16 Guidelines for Life course. Three participants started the course in August last year and completed their qualification in November 2019. Here are some words from the participants about their experience.
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Words! Love them or hate them, it often feels like we’re drowning in the noise they create – not only in our own ears, or on the page, but in our heads. They have the power to uplift us and to cast us down, to liberate and to entrap.
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On August 21 2019, two of our UK based facilitators, Kitty D'Costa and Karl Grey, led a 2 hour taster session on the 16 Guidelines for Life using MeetUp which provides free meeting spaces throughout London.
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Reflect on your conversations you have today - their content, their tone and their purpose. It's nice to speak with kindness, sensitivity and wisdom.
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David Machles, from North Carolina, USA, began his journey into the 16 Guidelines in 2008. He felt inspired to offer the 16G program in prisons working with adult and juvenile prisoners as well as staff and volunteers. He developed a 16G for prisoners curriculum called Building Inner Strength.
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Delight is the delicious taste we get when something good happens. Worries fade away, frustration evaporates, and anger disappears when a baby is safe or a friend passes their exams, when a problem is solved or a conflict resolved. Delight opens the heart.
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Generosity has the potential to release us from a limited and compulsive focus on ‘me’ and ‘mine’. It also helps us promote the pleasures of sharing time, energy, talents and possessions.
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Contentment is a state of mind that has nothing to do with money, objects or other people. Nor does it concern itself with how much we have, or how little.
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Rejoice in your capacity to be honest and straightforward, it has the potential to promote a culture of seeking the common good instead of pursuing personal self-interest.
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Life is full of uncomfortable experiences, from minor niggles and irritations to major confrontations and setbacks. When they happen, we have a choice about how to respond. We can either become agitated and upset, or we can stay calm and relaxed.
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Aspiration is the profound longing for purpose and fulfilment, joy and happiness, which lies deep - and sometimes buried - in our hearts, and in the heart of every living being.
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Humility is the attitude of experiencing the world and what it contains with wonder and awe. It is about seeing ourselves as a small part of a vast cosmos, inhabited by people and creatures from who we can learn.
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How do you experience contentment?
It can be easy as taking a breath in, and deciding to release everything that makes us feel anxious and dissatisfied as you breathe out. Let the commotion of the world simply come to rest
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FPMT center Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling has begun offering children’s classes on the 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life.
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