Next courses: Barcelona, evenings 19:00-20:45 from Feb 5th 2019 plus option 2: mornings from Feb 6th 2019, 11:00- 13:00. Course duration: 8 weeks, 2 hours per week.
'Life is not about about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.'
Cost: €220
As we live our lives, challenges will inevitably be thrown at us. We will struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings. This course will teach you how to completely change the way you deal with these challenges, thoughts and feelings so that you can live with more calm and ease and be free from unnecessary suffering.
The course is based on a scientifically proven method using mindfulness for creating powerful and long lasting change. By taking this course, you will learn methods to help cope with those thoughts and feelings that are stopping you from being the most focused, happy and healthy person you can be.
How does the course work?
The course takes place over eight weeks with one group session of two hours per week. Each session will include some explicative and some practical activities and will include short practices to be carried out during private time. Audio recordings of guided meditations, as well as accompanying written materials will be provided.
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Who is it For?
Anyone with a desire to learn a series of techniques that will enable them to improve their wellbeing in a healthy and long lasting way. For people who want to try something different in order to obtain different results! The course is given entirely in English.
How to Book
In order to secure your place on one of our 8 week courses you will need to pay a deposit of € 60.
Payment should be made to the paypal account jessbigogno@gmail.com.
The balance is to be paid on the first day of the course in cash.
Once you have made the payment, please confirm by writing to the email info@livingmindfully.es.
Deposits will only be refunded if the course is cancelled. If you cannot attend, the deposit will be saved for you for future courses.
Deborah Rossi
Federico Franzoni
Jenifer Osterwalder
Greg Black
Session 1: What is Mindfulness?
Cultivating mindfulness can help us reduce the negative physiological and psychological affects of that which arises in our lives that we find difficult or stressful, as well as helping us to find ways of responding positively and proactively to our experiences.
Session 2: Gathering the Scattered Mind, the Power of Being Present, Living all Your Moments
The mind is often scattered and lost in thought. When this happens we miss many pleasant moments, perhaps by focusing only on the unpleasant ones. In week two we begin to learn to train our mind to come back into the present and seeing things as they truly are.
Session 3: What is Stress?
In week thee we learn that our perception of how we see / don't see things, will largely determine how we respond to them. It is not what happens to us but how we handle them which influences our wellbeing.
Session 4: Coping with Stress
In session four we learn how to respond differently to that which appears in our lives that we find difficult or stressful both internally and externally. We do this by cultivating an open and kind attitude to our experiences and reducing resistance which in turn reduces suffering.
Session 5: Mindfulness of Thoughts
When we relate differently to our thoughts we free ourselves from getting stuck in the same thought patterns and habits. Through beginning to observe our thoughts as separate to ourselves we can see them for what they are rather than as definite truths which can be destructive and painful thus enabling a new sense of ease of being.
Session 6: Mindfulness of Emotions
Through seeing emotions and all of the system of feelings and thoughts that go with them as 'just emotions' we become liberated from being driven by them into patterns of behaviour that are unhelpful and that make our lives more difficult.
Session 7: Cultivating Compassion
If your life feels like a struggle with the world, it may be that the real struggle is with yourself. Developing kindness for ourselves can help us to reconnect with the world in a more positive way and open into kindness and compassion for others thus improving all of our relationships with others and with ourselves.
Session 8: A Mindful Life
Planning for a new way of living - the eight week is the rest of your life!