Our emotions have a major impact on our sense of wellbeing and happiness. As our emotions are powerful yet delicate, we need to have a wise, caring approach to manage them well.
This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of how emotions arise and function, together with a range of ways to make them work for you in your life. It offers you the opportunity for personal change by applying knowledge about emotions from Buddhism and Science and exploring it through discussion, reflection and meditation. The experiential approach of this course can help you to become calmer, wiser and more contented, while enjoying a rich emotional life. The course is open to anyone, Buddhist or not, who is interested in drawing on the vast toolkit provided by Buddhism and supporting it with current perspectives from Science, in order to improve their lives.
This course is part of the new Buddhist Mind Science series, which is being offered at FPMT Centres worldwide in 2025.
Dates: Saturday 10th, 17th & 24th May
Time: 10.00am-12.00pm
Location: In person @ 116 Bathurst Road, Katoomba or via Zoom.
These sessions are standalone, so you are welcome to attend individual sessions or the whole course. Please bring writing material for the written reflections.
About the Facilitator
Laurel is a senior student at Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre. She has meditated since 1981 and met the Dharma in 2006, finding it very useful in her personal life. Laurel volunteers at the Centre in a number of capacities. Having undertaken the global Facilitator Training for the BMS course, Laurel looks forward to presenting knowledge and exploring ideas with the participants in a stimulating way.
In her teaching career, Laurel has taught students of all ages, mainly in the field of English as a Second Language. She has a doctorate in education and is currently teaching a Masters course at the University of Technology, Sydney.