Mindfulness Skills Development & Living a Mindful Life (MSDL) Retreat
"Transform Your Life with Inner Peace: Join the Mindfulness Skills Development & Living a Mindful Life (MSDL) Retreat for a Journey of Self-Discovery and Serenity!"
Location: Onsite The Pas CWL Retreat House
Estimated length: 12 hrs
August 6-7 @ 9:00 am - 4:30pm
Registration (Closed) - https://www.imc-inc.ca/registration-form.html
This workshop reviews the history, foundational principles and core concepts of mindfulness. It includes a basic introduction to mindfulness-based stress reduction. Approaches to incorporating mindfulness within a day-to-day lifestyle and how to live mindfully psychologically, physically and emotionally are covered. Participants are exposed to how employing self-compassion can assist to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, regulating emotions and improve well-being.
The course offers the following practice sessions: adapting techniques of informal mindfulness practices (50 min); how to start your own personal mindfulness practice (50 min); loving-kindness “meta” practice, experiential exercises in body scan meditation and mindful movement (50 min), and how to create a healthy work-life balance and avoid professional burnout (50 min).
Time is spent discussing neuroscience and mindfulness, neuroplasticity and brain change seen in specific medical and psychological disorders. In addition, the neurobiological evidence for mindfulness in treatment and how mindfulness can help heal loss, grief and trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is included.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite The Pas CWL Retreat House
Estimated length: 12 hrs
August 6-7 @ 9:00 am - 4:30pm
Registration (Closed) - https://www.imc-inc.ca/registration-form.html
This workshop reviews the history, foundational principles and core concepts of mindfulness. It includes a basic introduction to mindfulness-based stress reduction. Approaches to incorporating mindfulness within a day-to-day lifestyle and how to live mindfully psychologically, physically and emotionally are covered. Participants are exposed to how employing self-compassion can assist to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, regulating emotions and improve well-being.
The course offers the following practice sessions: adapting techniques of informal mindfulness practices (50 min); how to start your own personal mindfulness practice (50 min); loving-kindness “meta” practice, experiential exercises in body scan meditation and mindful movement (50 min), and how to create a healthy work-life balance and avoid professional burnout (50 min).
Time is spent discussing neuroscience and mindfulness, neuroplasticity and brain change seen in specific medical and psychological disorders. In addition, the neurobiological evidence for mindfulness in treatment and how mindfulness can help heal loss, grief and trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is included.
What participants will learn:
- Techniques for informal mindfulness practices
- How to cultivate the Five Core Skills of mindfulness
- Mindful breathing and other practices
- How to use mindfulness and mindful living to manage stress
- Self-soothing calming activities such as using nature and imagery to manage anger, anxiety and stress
- How to heal emotional pain through acceptance, forgiveness and cultivating self-compassion
- Using mindfulness for chronic pain
- How to cultivate awareness of our physical bodies and use mindfulness practices to “lean in” to touch the pain
- Ways to respond to trauma and PTSD arousal, traumatic thoughts and feelings
- How to cultivate kindness and self-compassion for yourself and others
- What science tells us about how mindfulness and mindful living works
- The ways mindfulness can help with a range of extreme emotional states