Summer Courses
Introduction to Mindful Living
TWO COURSES
over 8 Evenings
to be run simultaneously
1. One at the Mindfulness Centre
2. One on ZOOM
Monday 10th October
at Centre
Wednesday 12th October on ZOOM
It's an eight-week Introduction to Mindfulness and includes teaching, discussion and mindfulness meditation practice.
We live in a time of great stress and anxiety. This course teaches you how to bring your life back under your own control. It provides you with the tools to bring peace into your own life.
Usual Fee is £160
£60
(equivalent of £7.50 a week)
You receive 16 hours training
plus 8 booklets
plus Audio meditations and music
plus Video
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Concessions
If you are experiencing financial hardship or are in receipt of State Benefits, please don't let that stop you from coming on the course.
We can arrange a nominal fee e.g from £1 a week for the duration of the course. Just let me know.
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Course Content
Introduction to Mindfulness
Unit 1:
The Way to Inner Peace:
The Keys to Mindfulness.
Evidence of its efficacy
Simple Practice Steps in Three Stages
Daily Practice
Unit 2:
Caught in a Trap:
Anxiety
Defending the Ego: The Need to be Right
Breaking the Power of the Ego
Fear of change: why? It is necessary!
Overcoming Fear
Causing Our Own Pain
Moving From Head to Heart
Unit 3:
Past, Present and Future:
Key Concepts of Mindfulness:
Living in the Present Moment
Butterfly Minds and Solutions
Awareness
Being Non-judgmental
Practical Steps
Unit 4:
Overwhelmed!:
Mindfulness and our unease:
Being Controlled by the Mind
Awareness and Emotional Freedom
Anxiety, Worry and Stress
Being Haunted by Past Events
Unit 5:
In the Context of Buddhism:
A Buddhist perspective on ‘Dukkha’ (our unease):
The Four Noble Truths and the 8-fold Path to overcome our unease - specifically, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration
Unit 6:
Mindfulness and The Imagination:
Sleepless Nights and Wild Imaginings
Negative and Positive Uses of the Imagination
Satipatthana and its Practice
The Four Noble Truths
Body and Mind are One
Unit 7:
Mindful Boundaries:
Narayana’s Tale
Physical Boundaries
Effect of Poorly Defined Emotional Boundaries
Setting Boundaries
Dealing with Conflict
Unit 8:
The Practice of Mindfulness in Daily Life:
Awareness and Remaining Awake
Many Meditation Methods
A Plan for the future
Course Conclusion
