Working with Joy: Transforming Work into a Spiritual Path
Level 100
June 13th - July 18th 2026
10:00–11:00 am PT | 1:00–2:00 pm ET
Testimonial:
“The course was wonderful and very inspiring! It feels that Wangmo embodies the teachings in all her cells and beyond. She just radiates it in an effortless and generous way like a refreshing breeze. It is a real joy to be in such a class! Thank you especially during this period that I can share this inspiration with more people in Israel who need it so much!” – Itzhak Preiss, Israel
Instructor: Wangmo Dixey
- 6 live online classes
- Zoom link sent on registration
- Recordings available or 6 months after class
- Free cancellation after first class
Description
For many people today, work has become a source of pressure, exhaustion, and fragmentation rather than meaning or contribution. Yet work is also where much of life actually unfolds; where we meet challenge, relationship, responsibility, and purpose day after day.
In Working with Joy, Wangmo Dixey invites you to explore how work itself can become a path of inner development. Drawing on the wisdom teachings of Tarthang Tulku, this course examines how our experience of work is shaped less by circumstance than by how we meet experience moment to moment.
Rather than seeking relief by escaping responsibility or striving for greater productivity, we learn to work directly with mind cultivating awareness, balance, and compassion within the very conditions of daily life. Through guided reflection, meditation practice, discussion, and real-world application, participants discover how clarity and joy can emerge even amid deadlines, uncertainty, and interpersonal complexity.
Work gradually shifts from something we endure or manage into a field of participation and service. Meaning and well-being are restored not by changing external conditions alone, but by transforming how we engage experience from within and ultimately make it a spiritual path.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for anyone who senses that work could feel different more meaningful, sustainable, or aligned with deeper values.
It may resonate particularly with those who:
- Feel successful yet depleted or disconnected
- Experience stress or conflict in professional life
- Want to integrate contemplative or a spiritual practice into everyday activity
- Seek a way to bring presence and purpose into work and service
No prior meditation or Buddhist background is required. The emphasis is practical, experiential, and immediately relevant to daily life.
What You Will Explore
- Working with attention, energy, and intention in real time
- Meeting pressure and uncertainty without losing balance
- Transforming effort into engagement rather than strain
- Discovering joy as an inherent quality of integrated action
- Bringing compassion and clarity into collaboration and leadership
Outcome
Participants often discover that joy is not dependent on ideal working conditions. As your awareness deepens, work itself becomes a meaningful arena for learning, contribution, and spiritual growth an ongoing practice woven directly into ordinary life.
Format
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Session Length: 60 minutes
- Access to Recordings: Six months
- Weekly Structure: Live teaching, guided reflection, and inquiry
- Community Engagement: Optional discussion in a private community portal
- Supplemental Readings: Short, optional weekly reflections
Weekly Topics
- Work as a Spiritual Path: Blending Work and Practice
- Meeting Pressure with Awareness
- Responsibility Without Burnout
- Attention, Intention, and Effort
- Compassion in Action
- Integrating Joy into Daily Work
Readings
This course draws on two core texts that support working with mind, intention, and action:
Readings are offered as supports for reflection and practice, not as academic requirements. Short excerpts will be woven into the course. All books are available through Lotus Bookstore.
Instructor
Wangmo Dixey
Wangmo Dixey is the Director of Dharma College and has spent decades integrating contemplative practice with active engagement in the world. Her teaching draws on lived experience, contemplative inquiry, and long-standing work to revive the Buddhadharma in its homeland of India translating deep wisdom into accessible guidance for modern life.
Her life is a testament to taking work itself as spiritual practice. In this course, she shares how challenge, responsibility, and complexity can become opportunities for profound transformation.
Level 100