Mindfulness Based Approaches - MBCT/MBSR
What is Mindfulness?
Though many of us want to slow down and experience greater calm and ease, we often find that doing this is not so easy. Mindfulness is a simple practice that connects us to our natural sense of presence. Learning and practicing mindfulness helps us come to our senses in a very real way and live more fully in the present moment.
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is an age old practice but it is only in recent decades that Medicine and Science have come to recognise the capacity of mindfulness to enhance the quality of people’s lives, particularly, though by no means exclusively, in the areas of stress reduction and pain management, depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks.
To date tens of thousands of people have taken mindfulness courses in one of the hundreds of Mindfulness programmes currently available around the world. Two decades of published research give evidence that the majority of people who have undertaken and completed Mindfulness courses have benefitted psychologically and physically.
MBCT/MBSR Course
This course combines the essential elements of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. The participants are taught to observe their habitual, automatic and unhelpful cognitive reactions while at the same time learning to interact with their thoughts and emotions in a less judgemental and more compassionate manner. The aim of the course is to help participants engage with themselves, and their thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations in a way that promotes psychological flexibility and overall wellbeing.
Who might benefit from the course?
The course is of benefit to anyone who would like to experience:
1. Increased psychological and physical well-being
2. Greater energy and satisfaction with life
3. An ability to cope more effectively with both short and long-term stressful situations
4. An increased ability to relax and experience calm
5. A greater capacity for curiosity
6. Enhanced interpersonal relationships
7. Decreased probability of relapse into periods of low or anxious moods
8. Lower levels of emotional distress, rumination, impulsive and self-destructive thoughts
9. Reduced levels of stress
10. A greater capacity to respond rather than react to life’s challenges
Mindfulness Courses running for 8 consecutive weeks plus one full-day workshop:
Mondays – 7.30pm to 9.30pm
From 10th January to 28th February 2011. All day workshop on Saturday 19th February 2011.
Facilitator: Mary O’Callaghan
Wednesdays – 7.30pm to 9.30pm
From 2nd February to 23rd March 2011. All day workshop on Saturday 19th March 2011.
Facilitator: Fidelma Farley
Thursdays – 7.30pm to 9.30pm
From 13th January to 3rd March 2011. All day workshop on Sunday 20th February 2011.
Facilitator: Mary O’Callaghan
Fridays – 12.30pm to 2.30pm
From 4th February to 25th March 2011. All day workshop on Sunday 20th March 2011.
Facilitator: Fidelma Farley
Cost:
Cost of the 8 week courses is €350. Course Fees include a CD, Course handouts, weekly classes and the experiential day-long workshop.
Where:
Oscailt, 8 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4
To book a place:
Phone Fiona at Oscailt on 01 6603872 or email us at info@oscailt.com