PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
You want to be the best you can be, and we want that, too. Dharmalaya Institute’s programmes are designed to facilitate your evolution inside and out — because who we are is at least as important as what we do.
INTEGRATING PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
‘Your action, what you do, depends on who you are.’
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth be told, most of the essential qualities and skills of a successful professional are actually personal — they’re found in the character and habits of the individual. To develop professionally we must also develop personally. The two go hand-in-hand.
This is all the more important for those who seek to make a profession out of making a difference. To take on the great challenges of our time requires us to reach deep into ourselves for insight, growth, healing, and refinement.
Some key areas of personal growth:
Self-reflection: knowing ourselves more deeply
Healthy and sustainable lifestyle design
Contemplative practice (yoga, meditation, etc.)
Identifying our personal mission and priorities
Well-being: physical and emotional health & healing
Communication (deep listening, constructive speech, etc.)
Time management
Some key areas of professional development:
Working from the heart
Cultivating a vision for our work
Manifesting: from vision to reality
Project management
Leadership qualities and skills
Giving and receiving constructive feedback
Specific skills and qualities in a given field
INTEGRATIVE PROGRAMMES AT DHARMALAYA INSTITUTE
A Gentle Stretch : Our Spacious & Supportive Approach
Our programmes pursue the intertwined objectives of personal growth and professional development as one through hands-on education and training in a community context, with ample opportunities for deep reflection and discussion.Just as in yoga asana practice the best stretch is a slow, gentle, gradual one, we take the same approach to stretching into our better selves. There’s no judgment or pressure here, just a warm, accepting, supportive community where all of us share the aspiration to grow and to serve the greater good as well as we can.
Our personal and professional development programmes include both universal programmes (designed to be useful to most anyone) and specialized programmes (designed primarily for people working or studying within a specific field).
Building a Better World Series
Our flagship programme for personal and professional development is our Building a Better World Series, an ongoing modular course developed in partnership with the Earthville Institute in the USA specifically for caring people like you who want to make a positive impact in the world. This precious opportunity is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective agent of change, and to help you develop your skills for making inspirations into realities. For details, see this page.
Internship in Sustainable Project Development
The Internship in Sustainable Project Development (ISPD) is a residential service-learning programme for people with passionate interest in practicing and promoting optimum sustainability solutions in our lives and in our work, e.g. starting a new ‘green business’, NGO or other sustainability-oriented project; bringing more sustainability into the workplace; sustainable CSR initiatives, etc. For details, see this page.
LEARN: COMPASSIONATE LIVING | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE | NATURAL BUILDING | ORGANIC FOOD GROWING | MEDITATION & YOGA | PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We have some big news to share with you about the future of Dharmalaya Institute, and the headline is that we want to invite you to be a part of it!