By Miss Claire Harper
(3rd Year Medical Student who has a great interest in Mindfulness Meditation Practice and is also a member of Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Meditation Centre)
On Sunday 13th December 2020 at 7-9PM
002 - 24-01-2021 : Psychological Approaches to Mindfulness & Mediation: Past, Present and Future By Dr Elliot Cohen
(Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University School of Social Sciences - Psychotherapist, Mindfulness Teacher & Member of Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Academy)
On Sunday 24th January 2021
Webinar 03: on 28-02-2021
Positive Psychology & Mindfulness Meditation The Art of Staying Present, Strong and Well, Through Difficult times.
By Dr Kamal Witharana (MD, MSc, FRSPH, PTLLS, IfI)
(Medical Doctor in Public Health & Clinical Lecturer in UK; Divisional Director of Health Service in Sri Lanka; Associate Member of Positive Psychology Guild UK, Member of Pali Text Society & Mindfulness Meditation Researcher & Teacher)
Webinar 04: on 28-03-2021
Transformation through Suffering:
Howpsychological turmoil can lead to spiritual awakening.
By Dr Steve Taylor
(Senior Lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of several best-selling (13) books, including his new book The Clear Light, Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, The Calm Center, The Leap and Spiritual Science. He is the current chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. His books have been published in 20 languages, and his articles and essays have been published in many academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He writes blog articles for Scientific American and for Psychology Today. Steve lives in Manchester, England with his wife and three young children. www.stevenmtaylor.com).
Webinar 05: on 25-04-2021
Buddhist Psychology:
Encountering the World through Buddhist Therapeutic Approaches.
By Rev Caroline Brazier
(Psychotherapist, writer & Lecturer)
Caroline Brazier has been course leader of the Tariki Psychotherapy Training Programmes since 1996. She is retiring this summer from this role but will continue to teach on the Ten Directions training programme in ecotherapy. Author of seven books on Buddhism, psychotherapy and ecotherapy as well as many papers and articles, Caroline is a BACP Accredited psychotherapist. Caroline originally trained as a teacher and has worked extensively in education, community health and with women's groups. She is an ordained Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest (Japanese Pure Land Buddhism). She has a lifelong interest in nature and loves camping and walking in wild spaces. Caroline has three adult children.
Webinar 06: on 27-06-2021
Finding True Happiness Within You. Positive Psychology & Mindfuness Meditation.
By Dr Kamal Witharana (MD, MSc, FRSPH, PTLLS, IfI)
(Medical Doctor in Public Health & Clinical Lecturer in UK; Divisional Director of Health Service in Sri Lanka; Associate Member of Positive Psychology Guild UK, Member of Pali Text Society & Mindfulness Meditation Researcher & Teacher)
Webinar 07: on 28-11-2021
What is Your True Self? Mindfulness: Five Aggregates of Clinging.
By Dr Kamal Witharana (MD, MSc, FRSPH, PTLLS, IfI)
(Medical Doctor in Public Health & Clinical Lecturer in UK; Divisional Director of Health Service in Sri Lanka; Associate Member of Positive Psychology Guild UK, Member of Pali Text Society & Mindfulness Meditation Researcher & Teacher)
Webinar 08: on 19-12-2021
How to Overcome Distractions (Five Hindrances) & Stay Focus through Mindfulness Meditation Practice?
Being a Master of Mind not a Slave of Mind.
By Padma Wijerathna (B.A; Bsc. Hons. Health & Social Care)
(Registered Nurse, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Health Promoter, Mental Health Activist, Project Manager and the Secretary of Letchworth Dhamma Nikethanaya Buddhist Academy for Education, Mindfulness Meditation, Psychotherapy & Counselling)