Courses

Introductory Courses

Introductory Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Introductory Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses follow the model developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in his book Full Catastrophe Living, featured in Bill Moyer's Emmy-winning PBS special, "Healing and the Mind." There are MBSR programs in hospitals, HMO's, mental health centers, corporations and integrated care clinics all across America.

These courses teach people how to integrate 2,600 year old Eastern practices in contemporary Western everyday life. Physical, emotional and spiritual suffering is healed and transformed by integrating body and mind in the present moment without judgment or expectation. Each session involves learning and practicing: walking, eating, sitting and/or yoga meditation; didactic presentation; group discussion; and homework assignments.

MBSR is designed for, and can be especially helpful to, those who experience: anxiety and depression, chronic pain and illness, cardiac disease, the demands of caregiving, life threatening illness, grief, spiritual emptiness and difficulty finding balance in current cultural lifestyles.

The classes cultivate ease, compassion and clarity in living life more openly, less reactively and with increased contentment. Participants learn and practice the basic skills and principles of MBSR and begin to experience their impact on everyday life, health and well being.

This 27-hour class meets weekly for 2 1/2 hours and includes one 7-hour day of mindfulness.

The introductory class is offered four times a year -- January, March, June and September.

CEU's are available for educators, physical and mental health professionals in all classes.

Fees: $310 due with registration
$41 materials fee due first class (book & 3 CDs)

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-- Upcoming Sessions --

Summer 2008
Tuesday evenings (6:30 - 9PM) June 10 - August 5, 2008
(no class July 1)

Day of Mindfulness
Saturday July 26th, 9AM - 4PM

*Note: This course will be facilitated by guest instructor Elizabeth Witt, an MBSR Instructor and Certified Yoga Instructor. Judith will return as the MBSR Instructor in the Fall 2008 September offering.*

Registration deadline: May 30th

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Spring 2008
Tuesdays Mornings (9:30 am - noon) -- March 18 - May 6, 2008
Wedneday Evenings (6:30 - 9:00 pm) -- March 19 - May 7, 2008

Day of Mindfulness
Sunday, April 27, 2008
9 am - 4 pm

Registration Deadline: March 11, 2008

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Fall MBSR courses begin September, 2008

Deepening Mindfulness Classes

These courses and retreats are designed for people who wish to deepen or rekindle their mindfulness practice. Each class includes meditation, discussion, and homework: a focus and intention for your daily practice.

Deepening courses are offered three times per year: January, June and September.

-- Summer 2008 --

Summer Deepening — Cultivating the Joyous Garden of Practice

Mindful: pie eating, yoga, play, walking, sitting, home-practice and readings. Wednesday evenings 7–9 p.m. July 16 – August 13

*Register by July 11

10 hrs. Fee: $140, middle path

-- Fall 2008 --

Fall course will begin end of September 2008

Mindful Parenting

With compassion and acceptance-loving, guiding, letting go, and living side by side.

Mindful Parenting will be offered again Winter/Spring 2009

Professional Courses

Mental Health Professionals Level 1
Integrating Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Introductory — Integrating Eastern philosophy and psychology into Western psychotherapy. Each class includes mindfulness practice, discussion, and homework.

Prerequisite: Completion of an 8-week MBSR course or established mindfulness practice.

Winter/Spring 2008
1st and 3rd Fridays
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
February 1 – May 2
-- 21 hours, $378.00; up to 14 CEUs

Retreat Sunday
March 16, 2008
9:00AM - 4:00PM
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Individual Instruction

Mindfulness instruction to: begin, rekindle, enrich, and/or focus on areas of continual difficulty or interest.

By appointment (schedule by calling 612.343.1623)

-- $80/hour (1 - 3 people)