Silvie Walraven

Silvie Walraven is a teacher of Buddhist Education (BVO) in public primary schools. Before that, she lived in Nepal and Bhutan for 15 years, where she first worked in development cooperations and later as a teacher. In 1992 she first encountered Buddhism and the FPMT, worked for the Himalaya Buddhist Meditation Centre in Kathmandu for a while, and has been involved with the Maitreya Institute since 2015, both as a student and volunteer, and currently as the director of the center in Amsterdam. Silvie is a mindfulness trainer (certified through SeeTrue and Mindful Schools) and an accredited trainer of 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life, Level 1 (for both adults and children & teenagers) and Building Balanced Empathy. These are international programs of the FDCW (www.compassionandwisdom.org), which Silvie teaches in Dutch and English. Go back