Ms. Rhonda Schiffler studied at Sydney University and earned a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Pure Mathematics & Philosophy. She studied Computer Science in her second year when computers took up the entire length of the Physics building and needed a very controlled environment! Students were not allowed near it. Programs were submitted via punched cards way back in 1974! At the end of that year, the first VDU type screens were introduced. After working as a programmer for 6 months and traveling for 6 months, She returned to complete a postgraduate qualification to become a preschool teacher. She received the Diploma of Early Childhood Education in 1977 and worked as a teacher and director of various kindergartens until 1981. Rhonda completed Pam Cayton's course on Creating Compassionate Cultures at Vajrayana Institute in Sydney. Rhonda also received the Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training certificate taught by Dr. B. Alan Wallace & Dr. Eve Ekman, which she completed on Holy Isle in Scotland in 2014—the following year, she facilitated the course in Australia again led by Drs Wallace and Ekman. Since 2008 to the present day, Rhonda has been following the path of the Buddha/Dharma with teachings, pilgrimages, and retreats of various durations. Inspired by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and her heart teacher Dr B. Alan Wallace.
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