A three-week training and introduction to our long-term experiential training programme specifically for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

The Compassionate Living Workshop is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.

A volunteer work period providing a precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living — with a specific focus on permaculture landscaping, and building and maintaining our organic gardens — all in a supportive community atmosphere.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

The Sustainable Thriving Intensive is a training workshop in which we explore the core principles and practices of compassionate living, including food, shelter, water, energy, consumption and waste, leadership, communication, personal development, providing a broad conceptual overview supported by practice.

The Compassionate Living Intensive is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.

Description: A two-part exploration of meditation and inner and outer sustainability: First, a one-week, (mostly) silent meditation retreat in the Insight Meditation tradition (18-26 March), followed by an optional ten-day service retreat providing opportunities to put meditation into action through work.

A twelve-day workshop exploring some of the finer points of earthen building and collaborative community living as practiced at Dharmalaya Institute, bridging skill development and personal development.

The Sustainable Thriving Intensive is a training workshop in which we explore the core principles and practices of compassionate living, including food, shelter, water, energy, consumption and waste, leadership, communication, personal development, providing a broad conceptual overview supported by practice.

The Compassionate Living Intensive is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.