Mindfulness and self-compassion for stress reduction


Why Mindfulness and self-compassion and how does it work?

  • Are you looking for the ability to better cope with distress, change, workplace stress and transitions in life? 

  • Dealing with illness, pain or stress connected with your health and struggle with these issues? 

  • Have you wanted to start a meditation practice to deal with stress or find life balance and resilience, but find it challenging or just haven't been able to establish a steady practice?

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Training are evidence-based interventions for a broad range of chronic disorders and problems. Through understanding and investigating the triggers which cause stress, and which can diminish physical and emotional health, you will gain effective tools for dealing with the challenges life brings. Mindfulness and Self-Compassion practice is proven to be effective in helping to treat these conditions.

Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Gastrointestinal (GI) Distress
Work, Family, and Financial Stress
Grief
Asthma
Cancer
Heart Disease
Chronic Illness
High Blood Pressure
Depression Relapse Prevention
Pain
Eating Disturbances
Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Sleep Problems

This course will teach you to identify stress triggers, understand and experience how these affect your mind and body, and develop mindfulness practices to bring about the change to lead you to more ease and balance as you learn to manage stress and life in a new way. That said, Mindfulness it isn't a magic wand to instantly remove the stress from your life or bring everything back into balance overnight.

The course schedule consists of a 5-hour session (usually on a Saturday). In this highly participatory and practical course, the session unfolds to include:

  • Sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindful movement (gentle Hatha yoga) and the body scan

  • Cultivation of informal mindfulness practices

  • Group dialogue and discussions aimed at enhancing awareness in everyday life

  • Individually tailored instruction

  • Home practices

  • Guided audio streaming or downloads for home practice and handouts

Throughout the program you will be consciously and systematically working with your own stress, pain and illness - and the challenges and demands of your everyday life. Engaging with this course teaches you to mobilize your own inner resources for learning, growing, and healing and can transform your relationship to stress. You will learn to access and cultivate your natural capacity to actively engage in caring for yourself and find greater balance, ease, and peace of mind.

Attend an orientation session (required and free of charge) to find out more about the course, what it involves, and the commitment you are asked to take in the course.  This session will help you decide if the course is right for you. Attending the orientation is not a commitment to sign up for the course.