Happiness and Suffering: At Peace With Our Crazy Mind

Dr Tony Fernando
Happiness and Suffering: at peace with our crazy mind.
(2 sessions)

In our search for happiness, we need to have a basic understanding of the mind’s evolved wiring, its predispositions and “crazy” tendencies. The more we understand that the mind evolved for survival and not necessarily for happiness, the better equipped we are with working with it towards peace, happiness and contentment.

Tony Fernando - Tony is a practicing psychiatrist and sleep specialist who has worked in academia for more than two decades. His research has focused on sleep medicine and medical compassion. He came from a large Catholic family in Manila. He was a postulant at the Abbey of our Lady of Montserrat, a Benedictine monastery in Manila. He obtained his medical degree from the University of the Philippines and his psychiatry and sleep medicine training from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is in the last stages of his PhD on medical compassion at the University of Auckland. He has received many teaching awards from the faculty of medicine at the University of Auckland. He was awarded by the President of the Philippines in 2012 for his work on medical education.

In 2015, he received the highest award given to doctors by the NZ Medical Association, the Chair’s Award, for his work on physician well-being. He received his temporary ordination as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar in 2017, and was given the name Bhante Dhammosadha.