If you’re seeking practical tools to bring about positive change in your life, this experiential course is for you.
You’ll explore the 16 Guidelines framework to deepen your experience in mindfulness as an embodied practice. You’ll enhance your capacity for personal reflection, resulting in a greater sense of well-being, confidence, purpose and emotional resilience.
Drawing on proven techniques from positive psychology, social justice practices, neuroscience and centuries-old Eastern philosophy, you’ll develop an ethical, holistic approach to self-improvement and cultural change.
What you’ll learn:
Apply mindfulness and ethical practices to all aspects of life by using a set of practical and transformative tools.
Identify your own embodied practice of mindful qualities in your personal and professional practices.
Describe the elements of the theory and practice of embodied mindfulness-based practices.
Integrate and apply mindfulness to the four wisdom themes of the 16 G: Mindful thought; mindful actions; mindful relationships; and mindful purpose and livelihood
Dates: this course is delivered in 4 Monday sessions from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EST, check the time in your timezone here
Bookings :
For bookings and cost, please check https://learn.utoronto.ca/programs-courses/courses/3738-building-inner-strength-16-guidelines-level-1
Course facilitator:
This course will be lead by Craig Mackie, BA, MA, MSW, RSW.
Craig Mackie started practicing mindfulness as a member of the Canadian national biathlon team and has since done numerous secular and Buddhist meditation retreats. Certified as a Transformative Mindfulness practitioner and international 16 Guidelines Trainer, he has worked in the field of wilderness therapy, adolescent addictions, homelessness, experiential education and therapeutic recreation.
