“Thoughts are real, but they are not necessarily true.”
In this course, you will learn over the course of 8 weeks how our thoughts, bodily sensations and emotions influence our stress level, our happiness - our whole being.
By understanding the connections and with continuous mindfulness training, we can learn to take back control of our lives.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an approach that incorporates mindfulness to assist people struggling with life’s difficulties, demands, stresses and physical or mental illnesses.
Great for beginner and advanced meditators alike, this course is designed to help you:
- Respond rather than react to stress
- Change habitual reactivity patterns
- Cultivate self-awareness
- Learn the most established secular mindfulness program
Developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s in the UMass medical school to help patients with chronic pain, with many elements of Buddhist traditions, the purely secular program and other mindfulness-based interventions like MBCT, have now been adopted into schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans’ centres, and other environments. These programs have been implemented in many other fields, such as; healthy ageing, pain management, depression relapse prevention, children with special needs, drug addiction and intervention during the perinatal period.
The MBSR course is an eight-week workshop taught by a certified trainer.
The first 1 hours session is for orientation and to get to know each other.
It is then followed by 8 sessions of one and a half hour.
You’ll also receive handouts your teacher is available via email throughout the course.
If you are in Hamburg I am offering “Walk with me” Walking Meditation Sessions in the Niendorfer Gehege.
What can you expect from our walking meditation:
– Personalized sessions that directly correspond with your needs
– Mindfulness training that teaches being present in the here and now through the benefits of nature and movement
– A holistic approach combining research results and current knowledge with lived experience
– Immediate benefits as you are taking time for yourself
– Longterm benefits ranging from a better understanding of your thoughts and emotions and therefore the ability to respond to life’s changes and challenges more skillfully
How is the walking meditation and mindfulness training usually structured:
– The topics we discuss and experience are based on the 8-week MBSR training.
– We meet in the Niendorfer Gehege and walk together for about an hour.
– There will be an introduction to the topic, open conversation, silence and guided meditation
– Corona safety measures: As we are outside we can easily keep a safe distance
Which are the topics of the mindfulness training?
– What is mindfulness?
– Perception and creative responding
– Mindfulness of the breath and the body in movement
– Learning about the patterns of stress reactivity
– Working with stress
– Stressful communications
– Lifestyle Choices
– A mindful life