Holding Our Truths Lightly: Choice, Care & Everyday Wisdom, led by Dr. Nivedita Chalil

Course Description: This 5-day experiential workshop is an invitation to explore the truths we hold- about ourselves, others, and the world. These truths shape how we interpret our experiences, relate to each other, and make sense of our lives. Over time, they are shaped and reinforced by our personal histories, cultural contexts, relationships, and habitual ways of thinking and responding. While these truths often help us navigate the world, they can also become rigid or limiting, when they remain unquestioned. When held too tightly, they may narrow our choices, strain our relationships, or reduce our capacity to respond with care and flexibility.
Grounded in timeless Buddhist wisdom and the Nalanda tradition, this workshop invites participants to recognize their own truths and relate to them with greater awareness, gentle curiosity, and kindness. Through simple contemplative practices, guided reflection, and experiential exercises, the workshop offers a supportive space to examine these patterns with openness and care. Participants explore how holding their views more lightly can open space for greater agency, compassionate responses grounded in understanding, and an ease that grows from everyday wisdom.

Facilitator: Dr Nivedita Chalill is a mental health professional and the founder of ARTH, a Counselling and Arts-Based Therapy initiative that supports adults through compassionate, integrated approaches to emotional well-being. With over 25 years of experience in clinical care, suicide prevention, disaster relief, and mental health promotion, she brings depth and perspective to her work. Her academic journey includes training in Occupational Therapy, a Master’s in Medical Psychiatric Social Work, an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, along with studies in Buddhist Philosophy and Arts-Based Therapy. She has served on the faculty at TISS and continues to teach courses and lead retreats in Applied Buddhist Psychology, helping people bring contemplative wisdom into daily life. Nivedita believes that any facilitator remains effective only when they continue to learn and explore inwardly themselves. True to this, she stays an avid reader and a committed student of Buddhist philosophy at the Tibet House.
She currently practices in both Dubai and India.

Please note- “attendance in all sessions is mandatory.”
For queries, registration & accommodation, please email: info@deerpark.in