SESSIONS EVERY WEEKDAY
Introducing Mindfulness – 3-Week Course – Wednesdays
3-week course
Description
The Introducing Mindfulness course offers a brief taste of mindfulness practice and theory in a format intended to be accessible to anyone new to mindfulness.
This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring some key mindfulness themes and practices in ways that might support them personally, in everyday life and work.
Full Dates: 03/04/24, 10/04/24, 17/04/24 at 18:00-19:00 UK Time
How is the course different to 8-week courses such as Mindfulness for Life?
There are 3 sessions of one hour each as opposed to 8 sessions of 2-and-a-quarter hours. The group size tends to be much larger than our 8-session courses with people joining from all over the world. Despite being briefer than the 8-session format, Introducing Mindfulness explores some key mindfulness themes and practices in ways that might support you personally, in everyday life and work.
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.
What happens after I complete the course?
- You will be invited to give your feedback – this is not compulsory
- In the final session you will be given information about ways to carry your practice forwards if you wish to do so
What will I do on this course?
The sessions are group-based, and involve a combination of teaching, mindfulness practices, trying out what is learned in everyday life, and discussion.- Attend 3 weekly sessions lasting one hour each week.
- This is a structured course where each session builds upon what has been introduced before. This is why it is important to attend all the sessions
- You will be in a group of up to 16 people, led by one of OMF’s experienced mindfulness teachers
- Each session will have guided and structured meditation practices. Many drawn from modern psychology
- Each practice or exercise is followed by 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
- Each session is followed by suggestions for personal practice. This includes both recommended guided practices, and also ways to cultivate new habits of mindfulness in everyday life
- Each session (except the first) includes a review of the previous week’s personal practice
- You will have access to a web resource which gives you guided practices and written material to support each session
Learning Outcomes
The course takes place over 3 sessions, each of which explores a core theme:- Understanding the mind’s natural tendency to be scattered and to wander; how we can train attention to create choices about where and how we place attention, and how this can fundamentally shape our experience
- Exploring different ways of being and knowing; recognising how much of our experience is shaped by thought; that other more experiential and observing modes are also available to us, and how we can learn to use them to help us flourish over time
- Recognising the difference between reacting and responding; developing ways to create the space to make choices between them, and exploring how this understanding can shape our experience and the quality of our lives
About the Teachers
Makeda McKenzie
Based in Trinidad & Tobago, I am a former human resource professional and the present-day founder and principal consultant of the Caribbean Mindfulness Institute (CMI). After my own experience with workplace burnout and chronic stress, and having benefited tremendously from the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programme and my ongoing personal practice, I decided to use my many years of corporate experience in training and development to create meaningful and practical workplace mindfulness programmes that help people stress less, focus more, and feel their best with mindfulness and meditation. Read more
Ee Lin Ong
I facilitate MBCT groups and support the awareness of mindfulness in the community (public, schools, university, workplaces, hospitals) through offering introductory and integrative workshops based on needs. I am motivated by the benefits that integrating mindfulness has gifted to my life and the lives of many who have attended and recognise that cultivating awareness may be a skill that is as fundamental to breathing to keep our body alive, as to keep our mind well. I remain open to working in various countries e.g. with Mindfulness Works, New Zealand and Australia facilitating and mentoring new facilitators, Shan You Counselling Centre in Singapore, and freelance through Nature and Nurture Sparks wherever there are requests. I serve as a bridge for OMC services to reach the community around the world.
