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Finding Peace in a Frantic World – Fridays
8-week course
Location
Online
Date
18/10/2024 - 06/12/2024
Time
12:00 - 13:30 BST
Description
Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World (‘Finding Peace’ for short) is a course designed to cultivate mindful awareness of our body, emotions and mind so that we can live our lives with a greater sense of wellbeing, kindness and resilience to life’s ups and downs. It is an evidence-based course, developed in the light of research at Oxford University and other leading research centres.
Please note: This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological conditions. Please do not sign up for this training if you are currently experiencing severe problems in these areas.
Full Dates: Fridays: 18/10, 25/10, 01/11, 08/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 06/12 from 12:00 -13:30 UK Time
What happens after I complete the course?
- You will be invited to give your feedback
- In the final session you will be given information about ways to carry your practice forwards if you wish to do so
- The OMF provides Confirmation of Attendance letters to participants who fully attend at least 6 of the 8 Finding Peace sessions What will I do on this course?
What will I do on this course?
On this course you will:
- Attend 8 weekly sessions lasting 90 minutes each. This is a structured course where each session builds upon the skills and understanding developed in previous sessions. This is why it is important to attend all the sessions if possible.
- You will be in a group of up to 16 people, led by one of OMF’s experienced mindfulness teachers
- Each session includes:
- guided and structured meditation practices, and some cognitive exercises
- a review of what you and/or other participants experienced or discovered in that practice/exercise. This review does not include a discussion of participants’ past history
- suggestions for personal practice of up to 45 minutes. This includes both recommended guided practices, and also ways to cultivate new habits of mindfulness in everyday life
- a review of the previous week’s personal practice
- You will also have access to a web resource which gives you guided practices and written material to support each session
Learning Outcomes
On this course you will learn the following skills:
- How to ‘stabilise the attention’: to recognise mind-wandering and ‘autopilot’, and how to bring the attention back to where we want it to be – with interest, patience, and care
- Learning more about two different ways of being and knowing: through direct experience and through thinking. Understanding more about how the mind creates meaning
- Learning to recognise our patterns of reactivity and how trying to get rid of distress may actually keep us stuck
- Bringing a sense of care and kindness to ourselves in those moments of distress and reactivity
- Using mindfulness to respond skilfully, in contrast to reacting – in ways that support the wellbeing of ourselves and of others around us
- To ‘step back’ a little from our direct experience so that we can see it more clearly, and so choose a kinder response
- Building what we have learnt into our everyday lives
About the Teacher
Claire Kelly
I am a teacher of MBCT and MBSR, having trained at the University of Oxford and Bangor respectively.
I have taught mindfulness to adults in a range of settings, including the NHS, Multi-Academy Trusts, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, to clinical and educational psychologists, in universities (University College, Kings, London, University of East Anglia), and on public courses. Read More Here...