Stress Reduction & Mindfulness Training
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(based on Buddhist meditation techniques, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy MBCT )
Are you interested in deepening your understanding of your stress response cycle and how you may step out of it? You’re looking for more ways to reduce anxiety, depressing thoughts and pain?
Mindfulness is a form of mental activity that trains the mind to become aware of awareness itself and to pay attention to one’s own intentions, from moment to moment to moment.
15 session hours plus workbook and CDs
Please bring a mat and a blanket
During this 6-week-course we will focus on:
• gentle and compassionate ways of being aware of bodily sensations, feelings and thoughts from moment to moment;
• developing mindful acceptance and acknowledgment of unwanted sensations, thoughts, and feelings;
• understanding the stress cycle;
• being able to choose the most skillful response to any unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or situations.
Classes are very experiential and involve a mixture of:
• mindful breathing, walking, sitting, eating, lying down;
• gentle stretching;
• teaching and dialogue on the link between thoughts and feelings, anxiety and stress cycles, acceptance, the process of quietening and observing the mind, compassion and communication.
The program requires a commitment to daily practice (approximately 45 minutes) for optimal benefit. You will receive a workbook & CDs to guide you during the course and to support ongoing home use.
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Instructor: Barbara Pamment, Swiss Psychologist, www.pamment.net
Location: QCSS Library in Queen Charlotte
Dates: 6 evenings in total one session per week – 6:30 to 9:00pm
Thursdays, April 12th – May 17th 2012
Fee: $230.00 (HST incl)
More Information: phone: 559 2375; email: barbara@pamment.net
Pre-registration is necessary and space is limited
