|
MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION PROGRAM
DETAILS
An eight week program offering an introduction
to meditation and an approach
to working with stress, pain, and illness.
Mindfulness
Meditation is a practice which involves cultivating a gentle, caring, nonjudgmental awareness toward all of our experiences moment-to-moment. It can help us
reconnect with our inner resources of acceptance, calm and insight even in the face of difficulty. This can be helpful to those of us living with stress from work, our relationships, our healing of childhood wounds, our mid-life transitions,
our chronic pain or illness. During the course you will learn a variety of mindfulness meditation techniques based on paying attention to your breath, physical sensations, thoughts and feelings.
Facilitator: Beth Trotter, M.A., R.C.C. has practised in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition for twenty years and has been a psychotherapist in private practice during that time. She is committed
to creating a safe, supportive and respectful learning environment within which each person can develop their natural capacity for mindfulness and presence. She also brings the experience of working in a meditative way
with her own physical
challenges and historical trauma.
Eight week mindfulness based stress reduction course:
The program consists of eight 2 hour sessions once a week and one full day retreat. It allows each person to explore their individual experience with group support, but it is not a therapy group.
Next Class Begins: Tuesday March 23rd 2010
~ 7:15-9:15pm
Full Day Retreat: Sunday May 9th 2010
Location: Wilna Thomas Cultural
Centre Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus.
http://camosun.ca/images/maps/la-big.jpg
Cost: $375 (some subsidies available) including pre-course telephone interview, audio cds and handouts.
Registration: Please register early, as class size is limited. To register send $50 non-refundable deposit to Beth Trotter, 25
Dock
St. Victoria BC V8V 1Z9.
This course is modeled after the Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. Beth trained
in Vancouver with Dr. Adrianne Ross, a student of Jon Kabat-Zin.
|
