One-Time Events

Changing Your Job Without Leaving It

Friday class:  
This introductory talk will focus on a Buddhist approach to work and how it can be applied. Basic to this approach is the insight that our true strength does not come from our power over others, but rather from our power over our own mind state.  Research has shown the efficacy of calmness, compassion and inclusion in the workplace.  However, our training and habituated mind is more adept at creating a stress response, expressing or suppressing anger and engaging in real or perceived competitive power struggles.  By sharpening our awareness of what is really going on, strengthening our mind's ability to supervise our own hindrances and increasing our capacity to authentically support others, we change the dynamics of a relationship, team or organization enough so that we can work less, get more done and feel more fulfilled. 
 
Saturday workshop:  
This workshop will provide participants with an approach and tools that will help them improve their impact at work while reducing stress and enhancing purpose and satisfaction. By applying core Buddhist principles to the workplace, we will address key organizational concepts such as interdependent systems, unconditional responsibility, the importance of integrity and the power of intention.  Within this framework, participants will learn how to deal better with conflict at work, managers who seem unfair and arbitrary, projects that are always unnecessarily complex to name a few, as well as developing their own inner leader to manage others and their job better. We will use meditation, presentations, visualizations, group and individual activities to enhance our ability to apply these concepts in the workplace.
 

Instructors: Dr. Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan

Dates: January 27 – 28

Schedule:

Friday, January 27th lecture: 7–9pm with Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan

Saturday, January 28th workshop: 10am–5pm with Elazar Aslan

Location: Tibet House US, 22 West 15th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)

Tuition:

Friday lecture: General: $20 / Tibet House members: $18

Saturday workshop: General $80 / Tibet House members: $72

Registration for Friday night: Tibet House US

Registration for Saturday workshop: Tibet House US