Peaceful Mind, Joyful Heart

Day of Mindfulness (one-day retreat)
for Health Care and Human Service Professionals
from 9:30 to 16:30 on Saturdays Nov. 10,  2012

at Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong

Bhikkhu Phap Kham lectured on “Manas - The Seventh Consciousness” on the Sept. 8 DOM.

Register online at www.pvfhk.org. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are only 50 spaces available.

Oct. 5, 2012

Dear friends,

You are invited to attend a Day of Mindfulness (DOM) for health care and human service professionals, co-organized by Centre on Behavioral Health HKU and PVFHK Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism (AIAB). This is the third DOM of the 3-day series of mindfulness practices for health care professionals. The first one was held on July 14 and the second one was held on Sept. 8, 2012.

 If you did not attend the previous DOMs, it is helpful to view topics covered during the previous DOMs, because new materials will be based on previous ones. You can view recordings of previous lectures at http://www.pvfhk.org/activities/43-bodymind.

 In the last two DOMs, we have covered the basic practices of mindfulness that can help calm our body and mind. We’ve also covered over how the mind works, as seen from the perspectives of the Manifestation-Only School of Buddhist Psychology. In this DOM, we will see how these teachings related to those of the Western Psychology, such as the Biological, Learning, Cognitive, Psychodynamic and Humanistic perspectives.

Teachings of the Buddha guide us to look deeply into our deluded mind and transform it into a clear mind. We will examine the concepts of impermanence, selflessness, and non-duality view (non-discriminating view, right view) and see how they are applied in our daily life, from cooling down our anger, getting over a broken romance, to coping with the deaths of our loved ones.

 In the day of mindfulness, we will learn the practice of going back to our breath, anchoring our mind in the in-breath and out-breath. We become calm and clear when the mind and body are together in one place, with the help of our mindful breath. We will practice listening to the bell, walking meditation, eating meditation, exercise meditation (mindful movements), and relaxing meditation (total relaxation) … We practice to stop, to slowdown the thinking in our mind via bodily actions.

 A sample programme schedule for the Day of Mindfulness is as follow:

9:30                 Sitting and Slow Walking Meditation (indoor)

10:30               Lecture

12:30               Lunch

13:30               Total Relaxation

14:30               Group Discussion

16:00               Walking Meditation (outdoor)

16:30               Farewell

Location:        Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong
2/F, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research,
5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

香港大學行為健康教研中心
香港薄扶林沙宣道5號香港賽馬會跨學科研究大樓2樓

Fees:               HKD100.00 per day (including light vegetarian lunch and tea)

How to register:
Register online at www.pvfhk.org, the Plum Village Foundation Hong Kong Website. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are only 50 spaces available.

For more information, please contact us at Centre on Behavioral Health, e-mail: bhealth@hku.hk, Tel: (852) 2831 5163.

Breathe and Smile,

Sr. Hanh Nghiem (Sr. Adornment with Action), PVFHK Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism

Venus Wong, HKU Centre of Behavioral Health