Personal Mentoring Program

• The Program
• Commitment of the Instructor and Student
• Cost

The Program

Members who wish individual guidance for their meditation practice may benefit from our mentoring program. If you live in the Toronto area, meetings with the teacher directly can be arranged.  If you live outside Toronto, the mentoring can be done by phone and/or email.

Students are matched with a teacher based on their individual backgrounds, current meditation practice and learning/teaching strengths. Students discuss their existing daily practice with the instructor and receive guidance and suggestions for change.  If they don't already have a meditation practice, they agree on one based on the teacher's suggestions and the students inclinations and aspiration.

Meetings are held on a biweekly to monthly basis as agreed upon with the teacher.

The teachers meet on quarterly basis for peer supervision and discussion on teaching issues in general.   A student's history or report is kept in strict confidence and is not shared with other teachers unless prior permission is given.

Commitment of the Instructor and Student

In keeping with the teacher-student relationship that has developed within the Buddhist tradition over some thousands of years, the teacher is committed to the unfoldment of the student, giving such guidance as is necessary or helpful, and the student offers some form of support in return. It is important to see this relationship in the context of mutual commitment over months or years, rather than a month-to-month, fee-for-service arrangement.

The student as a member of Friends of the Heart is committed to keeping the precepts in all their relationships within FoH, including this student-teacher relationship. The teacher is also committed to these precepts and as well to the  teacher precepts that FoH has established.

Cost

The suggested cost is $75 - 85 per month, and is arranged directly with the mentor. As well, students are members of Friends of the Heart. This can be Full or Associate Membership.

Please email for more information on this option.