Abstract:
This study aimed to examine psychological experience after joining Buddhist personal growth and counseling group of students with different cultural background. The sample consisted of 14 students who was undergraduate in the university and had different cultural backgrounds in the context of religious and regional diversities. The sample joined Buddhist personal growth and counseling group for totally 16 hours according to the condition of the research. The data were collected through in-depth interview and analyzed by the phenomenological qualitative research method with verbatim, coding, categorizing and summarying themes. The data checking was done by members, peers and advisors. Findings revealed 4 major themes consisted of counseling, personal growth, the positive feelings of member due to Buddhist personal growth and counseling group and the acceptance among different religious belief. The result showed that Buddhist personal growth and counseling group could heal the mental problem and would develop the positive worldview about self and the others. The result also showed that religious differences didnt bring any negative relationship of the member.