Menla – Intrinsic health and healing

Menla is a Tibetan term, which means teacher of healing, or often also medicine buddha or healing buddha. This is an authentic tradition of practice, that trains and strengthens our ability to heal ourselves and others. Menla training is a 15 month study and practice training in contemplative healing.

Participants
This training is suitable for people engaged in healing and caring professions, as well as persons who care for chronically ill people; in particular for those people who engage in their profession with all their heart and have the tendency to overexert themselves and burn out.

The following are recommended for participation :

• Participants should have an active interest in improving the relationship between healer and patient. In this, work with speech and body language play an important role. Medical or care experience and training is very welcome but not required.
• No previous experience with Buddhism or other spiritual disciplines is required. All that is required is an openness for new ways of seeing our situation.

The following skills will be developed in a progressive manner:

• The skill to keep an open heart and a clear mind in difficult situations.
• Precision in perception, in particular the differentiation between pure sense perceptions and concepts and ideas that overlay our perceptions.

Universal and basic techniques of mind training, developed over 2500 years within the Buddhist tradition, will be used in this training. This will be paired with modern process work. The methods that will be presented include:

• Special meditative and awareness exercises, perception and cognitive methods.
• Experiential process oriented methods. These will be presented by experienced therapists who will assist in the training.
• Group work. Between the seminars the participants will meet for discussion and exchange in contemplative healing groups

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