Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course (MBSR)
With Joyce Curnan
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week, evidence-based, highly experiential course that is offered around the world. MBSR's primary aim is to develop skills that can be flexibly applied in everyday life to stress, pain, and illness. Through experiential learning and discussion during class, as well as through daily mindfulness practice at home, you’ll learn and develop a range of skills that involve paying attention to thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.
Practicing mindfulness helps us to develop inner resources such as clarity, stability, and self-compassion. We can then draw upon these through the ups and downs of daily life. It can help us to ‘wake up’ to our everyday experience which we miss when we are perpetually caught up in our thoughts. Mindfulness enables us to be present for the good times, and it makes us aware of what support or changes might be needed when times are tough. With time and practice we become better equipped to be present to life as it is, and to respond with more kindness and wisdom to whatever it has in store.
The eight- week program of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in 1979. The course is suitable for those with prior meditation experience as well as those who have none. It introduces participants to different forms of mindfulness practice including sitting meditation, body awareness and gentle mindful movement. The classes also explore what we mean by the term ‘stress’, how it manifests in our lives and how mindfulness can support us in responding to it. As the emphasis is on bringing mindful awareness into everyday life, a commitment to daily home practice of thirty to forty minutes is required.
Research has shown that committed participation in an eight-week mindfulness course can have lasting positive effects on health and well-being.
"MBSR though originally designed for stress management, it is being used for treating a variety of illnesses such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin and immune disorders."
Whats included:
The course includes 8 x 2.5-hour classes, a retreat day.
You will be invited to a Pre-Course orientation call before the program starts.
Recordings of mindfulness practices and accompanying texts with exercises to do at home will be given to you in advance.
About the Pre-Course Orientation:
After you register Joyce will contact you to arrange a one-on-one orientation Zoom call. This is to give you a chance to meet each other, to inform you about what to expect from the course and to make sure this is a suitable time for you to participate. At the end of this conversation, you can decide together whether to proceed. Since it is an intensive course and at times can be challenging, it’s best to set this time aside to link up and discuss.
MBSR Course Fall 2024 dates:
Wednesday evenings for 8 weeks:
25 Sept; 2, 9, 16, 23 October; (skip one week)
6, 13, 20 November
Times: 19:00-21.30 | Location: Studio Hot | Jan van Scorelstraat 41
& 1 silent retreat day:
Saturday 16 November
11.00-17.00 | Location: Studio One | St. Janshovenstraat 1
Prices | New: Training prices are exempt from VAT (BTW) because we are CRKBO registered.
Early Bird
Until 1 April €480
Until 1 May €500
Until 1 June €520
Until 1 July €540
Until 1 August €560
Until 1 September €580
Regular €600
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