Membership Terms and Conditions

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Kadampa Meditation Centre Brisbane (KMC Brisbane) member.

We offer two tiers of membership:

  1. Full Centre Membership
  2. Online Weekly Class Membership

Full Centre Membership

Cost:  $100 per month

Minimum period:  three months for new and rejoining members.

Membership inclusions:  all weekly drop-in classes at the centre in Spring Hill and all branches, half day courses, day courses, on-site guided retreats, and empowerments.

Membership exclusions:  offsite events (such as public talks with visiting teachers), weekend meditation retreats, lunch at catered events.  Membership is only for KMC Brisbane only and not any other Kadampa centre or joint centre events.

Duration of membership:  membership commences as soon as your first payment clears and automatically renews on the same day each month.  Should you sign up on 29 February, your membership will renew 1 March in following non-leap years.  membership can be cancelled after the minimum three month period expires.

Transferability:  Membership is not transferable between people or centres.

Cancellation of membership:  a minimum sign-up period of three months applies to all members. If you wish to cancel your membership any time after the initial three month period, please send an email to admin@meditateinbrisbane.org with two weeks of notice. Should you wish to re-start a centre membership any time after this, you will be required to sign up again for a minimum period of three months.

Foundation Program Students:  When students join Foundation Program (FP) they are required to become a member of our Centre and maintain the Centre membership while they are enrolled on the study program. The student benefits by having access FP classes as well as all of the usual classes and discounts that members have access to, and the regular monthly payments help to support our Temple and associated branch classes. Every student maintains this membership payment regardless of whether the FP classes run every week or not.

Online Weekly Class Membership

Cost:  $50 per month

Minimum period:  three months for new and rejoining members.

Membership inclusions:  Wednesday Meditation & Buddhism class at 7pm and Thursday Meditation & Buddhism class at 10.30am.  Classes are available to live-stream at these times only and no replay is available outside of these times.

Membership exclusions:  live-streamed courses and retreats are not available on this membership tier.  To access these please sign up for Full Centre Membership.  Day courses and retreats are not for sale on an individual basis only through Full Centre Membership.

Duration of membership:  membership commences as soon as your first payment clears and automatically renews on the same day each month.  Should you sign up on 29 February, your membership will renew 1 March in following non-leap years.  membership can be cancelled after the minimum three month period expires.

Transferability:  Membership is not transferable between people or centres.

Cancellation of membership:  a minimum sign-up period of one month applies to all online only members. If you wish to cancel your membership any time after the initial one month period, please send an email to admin@meditateinbrisbane.org with two weeks of notice. Should you wish to re-start a centre membership any time after this, you will be required to sign up again for a minimum period of one month.

Foundation Program Students:  this membership tier is not available to Foundation Program Students.