Reduce stress and live with greater ease through this tested and well-established mindfulness meditation program.
Time to Befriend
Who You Are
Friendliness toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. It means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry.
We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness.
Meditation Practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.
It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
— Pema Chodron
An evidenced-based 8-week MBSR Course
The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme takes place over 8 consecutive weeks.
It provides training in mindfulness meditation and awareness practices which have been shown to reduce stress and increase well-being.
The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme takes place over 8 consecutive weeks.
It provides training in mindfulness meditation and awareness practices which have been shown to reduce stress and increase well-being for people with a wide range of concerns, from stress and anxiety to chronic pain and insomnia and many more conditions.
It was developed by Dr Jon Kabat Zinn in 1979 in the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is considered the first therapeutic Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) of which others followed like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
Programme
Overview
The course is interactive, supportive, and structured.
It runs for 8 weeks, and each class is 2.5 hours including one full-day retreat.
Course Duration
— Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices, ie: body scan,
mindful movement, sitting mindfulness meditation and more.
— An enquiry process to deepen individual and group understanding to
support aligning ourselves to being more present in our lives.
— Opportunities to discuss how to work with obstacles to mindfulness,
and how we can best integrate mindfulness into daily life
in a variety of ways.
— Less reactivity, and more awareness building a greater ability to respond to life’s demands and difficulties with skill, openness, and self-kindness.
MBSR Will Provide You With
— The programme is both rewarding and challenging and requires a high level of ongoing commitment to yourself and the home practice.
— Home practice is a major part of the course and will involve guided mindfulness practices of about 40 minutes a day.
— All materials needed will be provided including audio recordings of guided practices, and a PDF handbook. Towards the final weeks of the course participants will attend a guided retreat.
— This is an opportunity to experiment with mindfulness through a longer period of uninterrupted practice.
— All parts of this day are guided by the teacher.
Benefits
of MBSR
CULTIVATE
SELF-AWARENESS
RESPOND INSTEAD
OF REACT TO STRESS
CHANGE HABITUAL
REACTIVITY PATTERNS
LOWER STRESS, ANXIETY
AND DEPRESSION
IMPROVE SLEEP
MANAGE CHRONIC PAIN
Rigorously Researched
Within this 40-year time frame the MBSR has been rigorously researched and has been found to be effective with many forms of stress; from relationships, parenting, work stress, as well as chronic pain, and dealing with illnesses such as cancer.
The MBSR curriculum allows participants to find their own inner resources for living life with more ease, and more resilience.
It is the most highly researched mindfulness-based intervention and spans many populations and disciplines. The MBSR programme has served hundreds and thousands of participants over the last four decades.
Get started with MBSR, today.
Next MBSR dates:
In-Person 2022 – TBC (8 weeks)
Online 2022 – TBC (8 weeks)