K16104: Happy teachers change the world
15.10.2016 - 23.10.2016
How can you become a happy teacher? According to Thich Nhat Hanh we need to be able to focus our attention. The path is based on personal development, mindfulness practice and stamina. In 2013, Thay explained the four ways to practice before a public of teachers, school heads, and school administrators at a retreat in Toronto, Canada: ‘Bring body and mind together; generate feelings of joy and happiness; know how to deal with painful emotions and thoughts and listen with compassion.’
In this retreat teachers, educators, school managers and administrators from all types of schools and educational institutions are invited to practice mindfulness together and to experience its effects. You will be offered tools that help you to develop greater inner space and peace from which you can be mindful in your work with colleagues and pupils.
The retreat will be led by monks and experienced lay practitioners.
Course language: English
The lay teachers ask for a donation for their time and work.
Brother Phap Dung
Brother Pháp Dung is a Vietnamese American monk, ordained by Thay in 1998. He was born in Vietnam in 1969, came to the US when he was nine years old. He received a professional BA in Architecture from the University of Southern California and worked as an architect/designer for four years before becoming a monk. He enjoys playing, learning and sharing mindfulness with children of all ages.
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Brother Phap Luu
Brother Stream (Pháp Lưu) is from the US and ordained in 2003. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in English Literature in 1997 and also did non-degree study at Yale and Harvard in Buddhist Studies and Sanskrit before ordaining. He taught English as a foreign language in Madrid, Spain, and spent one year working part-time as a teacher in inner-city schools in New Haven, CT.
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Claude Acker
Claude Acker, born in 1959 in France has worked for 15 years as a teacher in the Netherlands. In 2013, together with Tineke Spruytenburg, he founded the Dutch branch of ‘Happy teachers will change the world’. In 2015 with brothers Phap Xa and Phap Kinh he led the first retreat for teachers in his homeland. Together with the monastics of the EIAB they are now preparing an international retreat ...
Tineke Spruytenburg
Tineke Spruytenburg (1954) graduated in Pedagogical sciences. After an academic career she became a qualified teacher at the age of 48. She worked in basic and special education.
She has been a member of the Order of Interbeing since 2006 and lived in Plum Village for two years. In 2007 she visited Vietnam with Thay and the four-fold Sangha.
She organized and facilitated family retre...
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