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Introduction to Mindfulness
If you’re new to mindfulness, or you’d like to come back to it after some time out, this 3-week Introducing Mindfulness course gives you a brief taste of mindfulness practice and theory.
Delivered weekly, in this course you’ll explore three core mindfulness themes, each designed to support you in your daily life:
- How to train your attention and how this can fundamentally shape your experiences.
- Learning new ways of being and how this can help support you in any moment
- Recognizing the difference between responding and reacting and exploring how this understanding can shape the quality of your life
This is a structured course, with the theme of each session building on the learning and experience from the previous week. You’ll also be invited to continue to practise the sessions’ themes through some ‘home practice’.
What to expect:
Each of the sessions will include guided mindfulness practices and exercises. These are followed by a discussion about any learning that can be drawn from the experience.
Between each session, you’ll be invited to continue to do some ‘personal practice’ each day – usually for a total of 15-20 minutes. This includes following recordings of guided mindfulness practices and bringing mindfulness into your everyday experiences.
Sessions 2 and 3 include a review of the previous week’s personal practice.
You’ll have access to guided practices and written material to support your learning from each session.
Based on sufficient enrollment.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an educational program designed for learning mindfulness and discovering skillful ways to manage stress. MBSR was developed in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The eight-week course combines mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help individuals manage stress, pain, and illness. Although widely applied in clinical settings and researched for its benefits on well-being, MBSR is classified as an educational intervention rather than a form of psychotherapy.
MBSR incorporates a blend of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga, and the exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling, and action. Mindfulness can be understood as the non-judgmental acceptance and investigation of present experience, including body sensations, internal mental states, thoughts, emotions, impulses and memories, in order to reduce suffering or distress and to increase well-being.
Mindfulness meditation is a method by which attention skills are cultivated, emotional regulation is developed, and rumination and worry are significantly reduced. During the past decades, mindfulness meditation has been the subject of more controlled clinical research, which suggests its potential beneficial effects for mental health, athletic performance as well as physical health. While MBSR has its roots in wisdom teachings of Zen Buddhism, Hatha Yoga, Vipassana and Advaita Vedanta, the program itself is secular