Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is the 8 week ‘gold standard‘ mindfulness training worldwide since 1978. Dr John Patterson has taught this course 42 times over the last 12 years.
Our next 8 week course will be both in – person on Thursdays beginning April 3rd and on Zoom Tuesdays beginning April 1st. That first session is Orientation from 6:00 – 8:00 pm Eastern. Subsequent classes meet 6:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern.
The Saturday retreat class is 10:00am – 3:00pm for both groups (simultaneous on-line and in-person). We skip April 22nd and 24th. The last class is Tuesday June 3rd and Thursday June 5th.
Preregistration includes a required 5 minute phone chat with John
Cell 859-582-7003
Studio 859-373-0033
john@mindbodystudio.org
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Goals of MBSR
- Learn life-long tools for living fully despite daily challenges and demands
- Consciously promote resilience, positive psychology and emotional intelligence
- Prevent burnout from the stress of work and taking care of others
- Reduce errors and accidents at work and home
- Systematically mobilize your inner resources for healing pain and illness
- Practice a portable toolkit of self-care approaches for promoting health
- Learn non-drug approaches for managing stress-related chronic conditions
- Explore the meaning and deepest values that inform your life and your work
- Cultivate your innate happiness, peacefulness, intuition and compassion
Slow down, relax the body, quiet the mind and open the heart
This experiential learning environment is based on a facilitated small group process.
Such group support can be a personally transformative model for learning and healing.
Mindfulness skills you will learn include
- Mindful gentle movement
- Body scan
- Mindfulness meditation
- Mindful eating
- Mindful interpersonal communication (speaking and listening)
- As well as gratitude, generosity, self-massage, self-compassion, skilled relaxation, imagery and journaling
