Facilitator and recent member of our Senior Faculty Team Martha shares her experience of her journey with Universal Education, FDCW and 16G.
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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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Facilitator and recent member of our Senior Faculty Team Martha shares her experience of leading a 16G course in Mexico in October 2019. In this report she has summarised the feedback some of the participants shared after an enriching weekend exploring Universal Education.
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Our Marketing and Communications Manager Zoe participated in the first ‘Building Inner Strength’ 16 Guidelines for life course of 2020 here at the FDCW Headquarters at the Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London. Here are her words to describe her experience,
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Our Facilitator Cecilia Buzón spent a week in Mongolia in September last year and has done some outstanding work in sharing a full variety of our secular activities working with 16G within different segments of the local community, including a pilot session of our upcoming programme 16G for children and teens.
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“An extraordinary experience, an intense moment of self-discovery and discovery of others. The rediscovery of simple human exchanges, as they should always be. The feeling of being a child again.””
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Tiziana has recently completed the Building Balanced Empathy training with FDCW. She is an active member of FPMT, has been volunteering for many years and is training to be an FPMT teacher. We have asked her a few questions to shine light on her personal journey and her experience with Buddhism and Universal Education.
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One of our faculty members Mabel Odessey has been spreading the values of Universal Education in the tropical island of Mauritius, known for its beaches, lagoons and reefs, Mabel brought a new perspective with her teachings to the remote community.
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We are thrilled to introduce Filipa Silva, our newly accredited 16 Guidelines Facilitator, to the FDCW Team. Filipa is our first Portuguese speaking Facilitator to join the group of UE-Educators, she has also tremendously translated the 16G course materials into her local language which can now be shared and taught in the wider community. We are very grateful for Filipa’s contributions and we look forward to her work in spreading UE in Portugal! We asked Filipa to tell us more about her UE journey and how the 16 Guidelines have impacted her life. Read on to hear Filipa’s inspiring story.
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Ceci lives in Argentina and is a neuro-educator. She works as a teacher and consultant. Ceci is accredited as a 16 Guidelines Level 1 facilitator and delivers workshops across South and Central America. She delivers workshops in Spanish and English.
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Last month, Lorena Adame, one of our facilitators of the 16 Guidelines program, visited a women’s shelter in Sri Lanka. She worked in coordination with the Tara Lanka study group led by Venerable Lekdron. The refuge is for fifteen girls between 14 and 18 years old who have experienced severe trauma.
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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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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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This month Martha Cabral led a 16G Level 1 workshop in Guadalajara. Afterwards, one of the participants, Iris, emailed Martha on how much the course had impacted her life.
We think that Iris's experience will strike a chord with many people and she has agreed to let us use her feedback to inspire others to explore Universal Education programs.
12 teachers attended the training of the 16 Guidelines for Life in Bodhgaya, India - including all the teachers at Maitreya School. Our focus was on sharing, empowering and investigating the values of the 16 Guidelines thoroughly. We wanted to empower the teachers to feel confident in designing their own exercises to try with the children.
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Fifty four people from 5 continents came together to share their experiences of the 16Guidelines and to deepen, renew, and explore the wisdom of these teachings.
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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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Earlier this summer the local group in Mexico led a 16 Guidelines workshop for teachers at the FPMT Comunidad Educativa la Tierra in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
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