NTiLearn | Nan Tien Institute

 Our Virtual Open Day is a short, rich program where interested people will meet faculty and past students and hear how our educational programs can help you extend their professional practice and knowledge in ways that acknowledge contemporary challenges and current stressors.  

 Invite them to experience: 

• a guided meditation practice 
•  information about our graduate courses in Health and Social Wellbeing; Applied Mindfulness; Mental Health; Applied Buddhist Studies; and Humanistic Buddhism  
• and our staff and students sharing their experiences of NTI

 Hear how these courses can enable students to serve others in their communities and effect profound personal, professional and societal change. 

Virtual Open Day 

June 4 2025 

4.30-5.30pm (AEST) 

Registration is free but Essential. Register here

Healing: Buddhist and Psychotherapy Perspectives

Presented by Dr Eng-Kong Tan and Dr Nadine Levy

4 June 2025

12.30-2pm (AEST) This event will be held online

Dr Nadine Levy, Head of Health and Social Wellbeing and Dr Eng-Kong Tan will lead this fascinating discussion on the intersection of Buddhist wisdom and psychotherapy to heal psychological pain and trauma.

Drawing from decades of his own clinical practice and experiences, Dr Eng-Kong Tan will explore how mindfulness, compassion and contemplative traditions align with modern therapeutic insights to support deep psychological healing.

This discussion is for practitioners, seekers and anyone curious about the transformative power of Buddhist and psychotherapeutic approaches to well-being.

About the Presenter:

Dr Eng-Kong Tan is a medical doctor, consultant psychiatrist and analytic psychotherapist. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Metta Clinic and was the Founder President of the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists (AABCAP). He has presented keynote addresses, workshops, seminars on Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in Australia and Asia.

Dr Nadine Levy is the Head of Health and Social Wellbeing at Nan Tien Institute and holds a PhD in Sociology and Honors degrees in both law and gender studies. Her research investigates women’s lived experience across a range of social sites, including health therapeutic landscapes and spiritual movements.  

Country as Teacher in the Reimagining of Australian Education

Presented by Dr Aunty Barbara Nicholson, Dr Anthony McKnight and Barbara Lepani

April 23, 2025

12-1.30pm (AEST)

Event will be held  On Campus or online via Zoom. 

If you wish to attend on zoom, a link will be emailed to you the day prior to the event. If you are attending on campus, you will need to register and choose the "On Campus" option when booking. 

Our special guests for this conversation are Wadi Wadi Elder, Dr. Aunty Barbara Nicholson, Awabakal/Gumaroi/Yuin Cultural Man, Dr. Anthony McKnight, and Blue Mountains author and senior Buddhist practitioner, Barbara Lepani. Each of these speakers, in their own unique way, is deeply familiar with cultural wisdom found in both ancient and modern systems of knowledge. Together they will lead us to explore how the deep ecological consciousness of Indigenous and Buddhist knowledge systems can inform a new story of education—one that is holistic, ethical and responsive to our shared future.

About the Presenters

Dr Aunty Barbara Nicholson is a Wadi Wadi Elder and the 2024 Wollongong Citizen of the Year. She who holds a degree in English Literature (Newcastle), an Honorary Doctor of Laws (UOW), and started the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) project which collects and publishes creative writing from First Australian inmates in Junee Jail. Aunty Barb received the First Nations Australia Writing Network’s lifetime achievement award in 2023.

Dr Anthony McKnight is an Awabakal, Gumaroi and Yuin Cultural Man who is an Associate Professor and the Curriculum Transformation lead within the Indigenous Strategy Unit at the University of Wollongong. His work centres Country in Aboriginal approaches to curriculum, teaching, learning and research. His publications include a 2023 3rd edition of his book ‘Research for Educators’ (Cengage).

Barbara Lepani is the Co-convenor of the New Economy Network Australia's Arts & Culture Hub (NACH) and National Coordinator of The Enlivenment Network, which works for a new/ancient way of human community acknowledging Australian First Nations’ Caring for County. She has authored numerous works based on her life of cross-cultural relationship and deep cultivation as a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner.

This event is free, however registration is essential. You can register here