Happy Course

Module 1 – Emotional Resilience & Mindfulness
This module provides participants with mindfulness techniques and emotional regulation skills to restore ease, enhance focus, and promote well-being in our lives.

In everyday life, we may react to danger when there is no real threat (or hold onto a sense of danger after the threat has passed), often resulting in stress, anxiety and an inability to concentrate. Here we learn to recognize and manage our emotions using the tool of mindfulness. We work to reduce unhealthy reactions, turning them into healthy responses.

Module 2 – Self-Compassion
This module offers essential tools for treating ourselves in a kind and compassionate way when facing difficult challenges.  Through self-reflective exercises, meditations and discussions, we explore topics of self-acceptance, self-kindness, self-forgiveness, and self-appreciation. These essential qualities help to build our inner strength, resulting in compassion for ourselves and others.

Module 3 – Meditation
This module introduces two core types of meditation from the Buddhist tradition: stabilizing and analytical meditation. With the synthesis of these two skills, we learn how to bring the restless mind under control, transforming it into a more peaceful and accepting state.  

Designed to suit both beginner and those with some meditation experience, we’ll learn to quiet the restless mind by cultivating inner peace through meditation practices and meaningful contemplative dialogue.

Module 4 – Cultivating Positivity
This module is based on ancient Buddhist wisdom and offers practical tools for viewing ourselves and others from a positive perspective.

Together we’ll learn that positivity is not just a mood, but a skill which can be strengthened.  As we learn to shift our attention toward what’s good, useful and uplifting, we enhance our well-being, creativity and meaningful relationships.

Module 5-Compassion and Love
In this module, we explore compassion and love in a way which has its meaning, power, presence, and value in our everyday lives.

With greater awareness of our biases, common humanity and interdependence, we’ll learn to understand and embody compassion as the wish to alleviate suffering and love as the wish for others to be happy

Registration & Contact

• Registration opens one month before each module begins.  Links will be posted on our GEBIS Charlottetown Facebook page (www.facebook.com/gebischarlottetown).
• Also register through www.gebis.org or email happycourse@gebis.org
• For inquiries, contact Mary Lynn McCourt at marylynn@gebis.org