Manchester Buddhist Centre

A new group for mitras, explor­ing thoughts, feel­ings and exper­i­ences within the con­text of the Three Jewels

The group will meet five times over five months. If you can’t make one ses­sion that’s fine, but Claire and Kay would like you to com­mit to a min­imum of four please.

A con­sist­ent mem­ber­ship will allow us to develop trust and to explore how we relate to each other.

Future dates

• 1st July, 21st July, 18th August, 22nd September

Claire and Kay say:

We will be using spon­tan­eous art­mak­ing to encour­age group mem­bers to explore their dharmic tangles and cre­ate fresh per­spect­ive. We may use themes such as the lak­shanas, but will encour­age group mem­bers to cre­ate art from their own exper­i­ence of dharmic truths in an open minded way, rather than cre­at­ing images which com­mu­nic­ate a concept.

This is an oppor­tun­ity to develop depth of con­nec­tion within the Sangha, through verbal and non-verbal communication.

We will encour­age mem­bers to bring skills from their med­it­a­tion prac­tice alive in art mak­ing and will sup­port this with formal med­it­a­tion practice.

We may have a form­al­ised space for con­nect­ing with the mythic dimen­sion, spe­cific­ally the Buddha, through art making.

About Claire and Kay

Claire has been work­ing as an art ther­ap­ist with vari­ous cli­ent groups since she star­ted med­it­at­ing about nine years ago.

Kay has been work­ing as an art ther­ap­ist for the past ten years, nine of which have been within adult men­tal health in the NHS. She first encountered med­it­a­tion and Buddhism at Manchester Buddhist Centre in 1996 when she was an art student.

We are both in the ordin­a­tion process.

How do I get involved?

Contact Claire or Kay via recep­tion if you’re inter­ested in tak­ing part