16 Guidelines For Life
Next 16 Guidelines for Life-Tools for Personal and Cultural Change
Two-day Workshop - Saturday October 29th, 9am - 5pm and Sunday October 30, 9am to 4pm
with international facilitators, Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw and Craig Mackie with Elizabeth Skronski
Location: Niagara on the Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario Canada
Whether your greatest challenges exist at home, in the workplace, in your community or the world beyond, the 16 Guidelines provide the opportunity to deeply examine the nature of thought, action, interconnectivity and the creation of meaning in your life. The 16 Guidelines for Life are about making life more meaningful. They offer tools to increase awareness of your world and intention towards it. They are taught so that they will deepen your personal values while challenging you to consider your world and the happiness of others.
The workshop:
Through guided mindfulness exercises, group discussion, and experiential exploration participants will examine each of the 16 Guidelines from Humility to Courage, deepening their understanding of what they mean and how they might be of use in their lives.
The workshop is structured around 4 Wisdom Themes that provide the backbone of the 16 Guidelines,exploring the nature of:
- How we think – the way we use our mind 1. determines the way we live
- How we act – every skilful action makes a 2. better world
- How we relate – to take care of others is to 3. take care of ourselves
- How we find meaning – if everything is 4. changing, anything is possible
Participants will receive
- Tool kit consisting of a personal exercises • and educational resources detailing the philosophy
- and origins of the 16 Guidelines.
- Access to on-line resources and Essential • Education community
- On-going support from the facilitators for • working with the 16G in your life and community
- as well as a path to become a 16G Facilitator
- 16 Guidelines for Life• book*
- 16 Guidelines Exercise Cards*
*may be purchased together for $32
Who would benefefit from this workshop?
The 16G have attracted everyone from neuroscientists to school teachers, corporations to social services agencies, parents to community builders – anyone who is in need of motivation to change their outlook and practices. The 16G are currently being used for personal and cultural change in hospitals, schools, social service agencies, drug rehab, hospices, universities, youth at risk programs, youth leadership programs, businesses, prisons as well as in families, communities and neighborhoods.
Fees and Registration
$150 (adult)
$100 Student and youth (under 18, limited spaces)
Please inquire about rates for low income earners and in-kind trades.
50% deposit required at time of registration, by check or Paypal – Payable to Craig Mackie
Maximum participants: 20 (with waitlist)
To register and for further enquiries email Elizabeth Skronski: elizabeth@coachingforwellbeing.com or phone (905) 468-9054
Snacks and drinks provided. Please bring vegetarian potluck lunch for each of the two days.
Facilitators
Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw is the Canadian co-author of 16 Guidelines for Life and has been teaching methods that help people create healthy, meaningful, happy lives since 1988. A writer, speaker, trainer and former Tibetan Buddhist nun, she was the founding director of The Centre for Compassion & Wisdom in Canada and Lamp On The Path. Her Transformative Mindfulness has been used in 10 countries by mothers, youth, educators, social workers, health and medical professionals. www.transformativemindfulness.org
Craig Mackie, MA, MSWSW, is an experiential educator and international faculty member of Essential Education based in Toronto. He has worked with youth and adults in the field of addictions and mental health for the past 5 years and has trained over 200 facilitators in the 16 Guidelines (in the UK, France, US and Canada), including educators, therapists, social workers, and people in the profit and not-for-profit sectors. Essential Education has published his experientialtherapeutic manual, “The 16 Guidelines at Pine River: Working with Youth in Groups.”
Elzabeth Skronski is personal and executive coach whose passion is to help people and organizations
be re-inspired and create strong and sustainable results by incorporating principles of happiness in their life and organizations. She is a certified facilitator in Meditation, Transformative Mindfulness, Five Tibetan Yogas, Laughter Yoga and is a Reiki Master. Her web site is www.coachingforwellbeing.com
www.16guidelines.org
This workshop is endorsed by Essential Education whose patron is His Holiness The Dalai Lama - www.essential-education.org
This workshop has benefited from support through The Centre for Compassion & Wisdom, Southern Ontario.
Would you like to live a happier, more meaningful life?
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.
We have an active and innovative group of facilitators in Canada who have introduced the Guidelines in a broad spectrum:
preschool, high school staff and students, youth groups, youth at risk, youth residential substance rehabilitation, medical and health care teams, women's groups, university programs, northern community revitalization, a newspaper community campaign, retreats and more!
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 www.16guidelines.org
Click here for a review of 16 Guidelines for Life activities in Canada during 2010
Order the 16 Guidelines for Life book
Enquire about courses at the Centre for Compassion and Wisdom, Burlington Ontario, Canada
For courses, resources and exciting developments with 16 Guidelines and other Essential Education Projects internationally, visit Essential Education and www.16Guidelines.org
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.
Read stories of innovators who have brought the 16 Guidelines for Life into the community.
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 and school staff in USA with Sharon Babineau, who has pioneered the program with street youth and a high shcool in Hamilton.
Laurie Dolan, a corporate trainer, is the program coordinator for the Centre for Compassion and Wisdom and Canada’s Essential Education Coordinator.
There are a number of facilitators of The 16 Guidelines for Life in Canada. Please contact info@lamponthepath.org if you would like to have them introduced to your school, gourp or organisation.