The Centre is established as a Buddhist Spiritual Counselling Professional Training Centre, offering training courses, forums, and seminars for frontline social workers, counsellors, healthcare professionals, and educators. It also organizes retreats for staff from professional organizations and provides public education on topics such as Buddhist teachings, mental health, and life education.
In July 2017, the Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Spiritual Counselling Centre was accredited by the Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board as a recognized provider of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities. Social workers who participate in the Centre’s professional training programmes and workshops are eligible to receive CPD credits.
Past Programmes:
- Foundation Certificate Course in Buddhist Spiritual Counselling
- Standard Certificate Course in Mental Health First Aid
- “Youth Mental Health First Aid” Certificate Course
- “Elderly Mental Health First Aid” Certificate Course
- “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” Certificate Course
- Introductory Course in Buddhist Studies
- Certificate Course in Buddhist Spiritual Awakening
- When Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) meets the Diamond Sutra Seminar
- “Spiritual Transformation: Interweaving Buddhist Spiritual Counselling (BSC) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)”
- “Breaking the Hell’ within the context of inheritance law: A Legal Path to Redemption
- “Healing the deluded mind” Workshop Series in Buddhist Spiritual Counselling
- Tsz Shan Monastery Volunteer Orientation Training Course
- “The Tango of Body and Mind – An Introduction to the Four Bases of Mindfulness” Online Course
- “Spiritual refinement” – Experience Sharing Session on Buddhist Spiritual Counselling
