16 Guidelines
Would you like to live a happier, more meaningful life?
Check this out!
Live Happy: Learning by Example Community Campaign, based on the book, 16 GUIDELINES FOR LIFE column was featured every Friday in the Hamilton Spectator newspaper with online articles and videos for each guideline for 16 weeks. Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw has interviewed local heroes who demonstrate these qualities as well as inspiring people around North America who she has met on her travels with the Maitreya Project Relic Tour. Add stories of your heroes who exemplify each quality by clicking “Comment” after each guideline.
Order the 16 Guidelines for Life book
Read stories of innovators who have brought the 16 Guidelines for Life into the community.
Also visit www.16guidelines.org
Centre for Compassion & Wisdom, 3445 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario 905 296 3728 An Introduction to 16 Guidelines Workshop
Friday, June 18, 7 pm to 9:30 pm & Saturday, June 19, 9 am to 8:30 pm
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Training to Facilitate Half-Day 16 Guidelines Introductions for the Community
June 20, 9 am to 5 pm
with Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw, Laurie Dolan and Craig Mackie (Prerequisite June 18 and 19)
This 2-day introduction offers you tools to improve your life, help your family and community. Experiential and life-changing. 16 Guidelines For Life is being introduced in schools, youth programs, corporate and social services internationally. Following on from these two days, you can optionally attend a regular program at the centre that deepens your experience and support as you integrate these into your life, work and community.
An update on change for the Sunday June 20 Training to Facilitate Half-Day 16 Guidelines Introductions for the Community
This is for those who would like to introduce the 16 Guidelines for Life to organizations, schools, groups and social services to encourage collaboration for future programs that can help uplift our communities. Together we will design a half-day experience that will let key people in organizations understand the potential the 16Guidelines will bring to create kinder, wiser and more peaceful options for staff and programs that can help the groups they service.
One of the results of some recent international Essential Education Program developments is that we are happy to now open the Sunday Training to Facilitate Half-Day 16 Guidelines Introductions for the Community training day to those who attend the Introduction on Friday and Saturday.
For those people, Building on The Basics, the 10-session program that integrates the guidelines and that was originally required to attend this training, will now be offered afterward. This will be explained at the training.
As previously promoted, those we also encourage to attend the Sunday training are those have attended 16 Guidelines evenings, previous workshops or intensives.
Limited to 20 people.
Course cost: $100 for Friday and Saturday only, $175 for Friday to Sunday.
Bursaries available for youth, students and low income earners.
To register: Please call the Centre at 905 296-3728 and leave a voicemail as prompted or email info@lamponthepath.org and we will mail you a registration form. If you prefer to register online, please copy this link - http://www.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=10.
Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw is co-author of 16 Guidelines for Life and an international facilitator of 2-day Introduction to 16 Guidelines Workshops. She is also an international trainer of 16 Guidelines facilitators and has been mentoring prototype programs in Canada. Craig Mackie pioneered the Principles Program at Pine River Institute integrating the 16 Guidelines into youth drug rehabilitation and just trained youth workers in London UK. Laurie Dolan is a corporate trainer, program coordinator for the Centre for Compassion and Wisdom and Canada’s Essential Education Coordinator. She has facilitated the Guidelines at the centre with others who completed the 5 Day Intensive Introduction to the 16 Guidelines in 2008.
Wednesday, June 16, 7:00 to 9:00 pm 16 Guidelines for Life Workshop: How We Relate to Others: Service and Courage Our thoughts manifest into actions and behaviour which in turn influence how we relate to others and how others relate to us. We continue our journey to deepen our understanding of the 16 Guidelines for Life by focusing on Service and Courage to learn how they create happiness for ourselves and others. Join in an experiential evening in discovering the importance of cherishing others and why independence is a myth. Bring a friend and meet new friends. You will leave energized and empowered. Please register in advance by calling the Centre at 905 296 3728 and leave a voicemail as prompted. Suggested donation $10.
The 16 Guidelines for Life offer a simple and practical tool for achieving a happy and meaningful life. They are not just words: they are an inspirational framework that you can use to live in a way that benefits yourself and others. The 16 Guidelines are suitable for people of all ages, faiths and cultural traditions. They are part of a non-profit initiative called Essential Education, which aims to make the world a more peaceful place by helping people everywhere to develop their natural capacity for compassion and wisdom. The launch of the 16 Guidelines for Life book, co-authored by Alison Murdoch and Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw in 2007 and training programmes in May 2008 have led to the creation of innovative projects all over the globe. People are coming together to study the Guidelines, share ideas and take them into schools, colleges, healthcare organisations, drug rehabilitation centres and prisons and youth retreats. The book is presently being translated into 8 languages. Presently published in English and Spanish.
The children's version of the guidelines, full of colourful activities, is Ready, Set, Happy! and this is being trialed in preschools and schools globally. It is now also in Spanish and can be downloaded from the 16 Guidelines website. (see above)