Registrations for the Fall 2024 course of Exploring a Secular Dharma are now closed. Our next course will be offered Spring 2025. If you fill out the form below, we will include you on a list of those interested in the course. As we get closer to the spring course, we will notify you of the next steps.
Secular Buddhist Network's free online course, Exploring a Secular Dharma, will run from 16 September to 25 November 2024. The course explores the key ideas and practices of secular Buddhism, an important trend that has emerged in Buddhism in recent years.
Course Calendar and Schedule - Fall 2024
Module 1: Introduction to secular Buddhism (September 16 - September 30)
Module 2: The heart of secular Buddhism – the four tasks (October 1 - October 14)
Module 3: A secular eightfold path (October 15 - October 28)
Module 4: The role of meditation in a secular dharma path (October 29 - November 11)
Module 5: A flourishing life for all (November 12 - November 25)
Zoom meetings with the instructors will occur on the last scheduled day for each module.
Enrollment Form
Instructor for the course:
The instructor for the Fall 2024 course is Mike Slott.
Mike is a part-time lecturer in labor history at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. A long-time political and labor movement activist, he is the editor of the Secular Buddhist Network website and its monthly newsletter, Reimagining Community.