Mindfulness based stress reduction course
Are you chased by thoughts and the to do list? Do you spend a lot of time reliving or preliving your experiences. Are you caught up in thoughts memories and plans?
Mindfulness can help you come back from the cinema of the mind to learn new ways of being. Mindfulness is a very pragmatic way of training your mind, which results in stress reduction, and mental resilience to face the realities of day to day life. You will unclutter and freshen the mind and gain focus. Resulting in improved relationships with yourself and others.
This mindfulness based stress reduction course (MBSR) is a structured training programme. Classes are experiential and pragmatic, with personal practice. The course programme builds and supports learning outside of the classes by developing personal practice as part of daily life. As part of this, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about recognising and responding to problems and difficulties.
In addition, course notes will be provided for reference and to support personal practice, practices can be downloaded. The course requires its participants to commit to 45 minutes of home practice each day outside of the course.
Who the course is for?
Mindfulness has been heavily researched and its use is wide ranging. People attend the eight week course for a wide variety of reasons, possibly just wanting to learn more, following a period of stress, or illness, seeking pain relief or because of a work interest. Your reason for joining the course is personal to you; the course will provide you with the space, support and knowledge to build your own practice for a less stressful life.
This course blends together the skills from mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) as taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) as taught by Professor Mark Williams at the centre of Mindfulness in Oxford University. It also incorporates self compassion and kindness to the practices.
About mindfulness
Mindfulness is an ancient practise with its roots in Buddhism and eastern philosophy and has been around for thousands of years. In more recent years Jon Kabat Zinn was one of the early pioneers of mindfulness.
Mindfulness can helps us create a pause between stimulus and response and this in turn gives us more choice in how we respond to events, people, our thoughts, emotions and feelings. It can enable a different perspective or relationship to what is going on in our actual experience and in our behaviour by bringing us back to our direct experience and the present moment we are in. It can help us to examine our relationship with day to day life and how we cope with stress when it arises. Practicing mindfulness can improve the quality of our life and enables us to be better equipped when we have stress. Mindfulness emphasises to the individual the thinking and feeling patterns that accompany depression, anxiety, physical pain, anger, eating disorders and mental and physical conditions.
Course dates and times
The course is developmental, and attendance at all sessions is needed in order to really derive benefit from the programme. The dates are:
Induction and week one – Saturday 3rd June 2017
Week two – Saturday 17th June 2017
Week three – Saturday 1st July 2017
Week four – Saturday 15th July 2017
The class runs from 9.30am until 2.15pm.
Fees
£240.00 per person, (recommended retail price is £260).
The fee includes tuition, handouts and three practices, available in download form*. (Please note that booking through Eventbrite incurs a small additional booking fee). All monies are fully refundable up until the 20th of May 2017, after which date no refunds will be made, this is due to room fees being paid in advance. Fee can be paid via bank transfer on request on by cheque.
Registering for a place:
Please contact Katie Hampton via www.katiehampton.co.uk or call 07563559149.