EXPERIENTIAL BUDDHIST EDUCATION

We offer full time Experiential Buddhist Kindergarten (age 3 to 6) and Primary to Early Secondary (age 6 to 14)

Teaching Diploma Courses, Experiential Buddhist Foundation Studies, and other personal & professional development courses and retreats for educators, teachers, parents and anyone caring for children, including their own inner child.

The aim of Abiding Heart is to educate towards inner freedom through a journey of re-discovering our innate goodness. This approach is centred on experiential and contemplative learning, fostering a process of transformation and the development of wisdom and compassion.

The primary purpose of the Abiding Heart Education™️ approach is to (re)connect to our Awakened Nature according to each individuals’ capabilities. We do this through the content of the Abiding Heart's curriculum, our teacher training courses and learning approach. By immersing ourselves in this way of being and process of learning, teachers, and children alike, discover a space within themselves that is open, soft and radiant. The essence of this openness is love, which is at the core of all true spiritual endeavour and ultimately transcends desire and concern for oneself. It is the very heart of enlightened wisdom. For more information about the Abiding Heart approach and our bespoke programmes, please visit www.abidinghearteducation.net

This education programme rests on the experiential Buddhist tradition rather than on prevailing education systems, and the emphasis is on developing wisdom and compassion that is to be lived in the classroom and in one’s personal life. The transformative and experiential approach to learning nurtures the children’s changing consciousness and fosters autonomy and ownership in teachers. All aspects of learning and knowing are inter-linked and, by bringing about a shift in how children and teachers learn and experience the world, Abiding Heart Education advocates for self-transformation.

Abiding Heart Education is a pedagogical approach to education with an international teacher training brings together a team of acclaimed academics and experts in education, contemplative science, philosophy, developmental science, neuroscience, and the arts. By fusing contemplative world views, meditation practices and application with transformative learning approaches, and developmental science, we have created a unique children’s transformative pedagogy that gives equal weight to the intellectual, affective and action domains.

A team of experts and teaching practitioners conduct research that informs the teacher education programmes and methodology as well as the children’s curricular content and learning approach. A main outcome of this

work is a transformative experiential education with teacher education courses, catering for both global and local communities.