Who hates the Metta Bhavana?
A six-week course in Developing
Emotional Strength
6 Saturday mornings from 23rd May 2026 (10am-12.30pm) at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre.
Open to all levels of experience.
Our courses are designed for all levels of experience—whether you're a newcomer or a regular. Each course offers an opportunity to explore Buddhist practice by engaging with different themes in a practical, accessible way.
In the face of world events, it’s easy to slip into anxiety, helplessness, or even wilful avoidance. Yet what we truly need is to strengthen our capacity to respond with creativity rather than reactivity, compassion rather than moral outrage, and courage rather than timidity.
This begins with transforming our relationship with ourselves. By becoming more emotionally positive, resilient, and grounded, we are far better placed to support others and to meet life’s challenges with clarity and purpose.
On this course, you’ll learn to cultivate genuine emotional strength—not as a theory, but as a lived, embodied practice.
We’ll explore the Metta Bhavana (loving-kindness meditation). However you feel about the Metta Bhavana, or if it's brand new to you, this is an opportunity to deepen positive emotion through practice and to explore compassion as a key quality of the enlightened mind.
Through loving-kindness meditation, we are not only developing ourselves, but also gradually transforming our relationship with the world. As we practice, we begin to live more in accord with reality, loosening self-clinging and opening into a wider, more expansive way of being—one that reflects the true nature of things.
Each week includes supportive teaching, group discussion, and guided meditation.
Join Pasannacitta & Team for this six-week exploration of how we can develop more positive emotion in our lives.
HOW TO BOOK
We run everything at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre on a donation basis - we want our events to be available to everyone, regardless of their financial situation. We ask for a donation at the time of booking if possible, as we’re completely reliant on your generous donations to keep our doors open to all.
We’d suggest a donation of £105/£85/£65 - or whatever amount you can and would enjoy giving.
If you are unable to give even a very small amount, you are still very welcome. Please email info@nottinghambuddhistcentre.org and we'll book you on.
(Please note: any donation made is a donation to the centre and not payment for an event. If for some reason you can’t make the event, you’re warmly welcome to join any other suitable event)
accessibility
We warmly welcome everyone, but unfortunately due to the age of our building and costs to renovate, sadly our space currently has limited accessibility for wheelchair users or those unable to use stairs.
There is a fold out ramp leading to the ground floor entrance, but please note that the shrine room—where many of our courses and events take place—is upstairs and not wheelchair accessible.
Our drop in meditations often take place solely in the downstairs space, but our toilets are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
While we don’t have an accessible toilet, there are handrails for support. If you'd like to visit or discuss any specific needs, please reach out and contact us at info@nottinghambuddhistcentre.org. We're happy to offer a tour of the building and will do our best to make your visit as comfortable as possible.