Mindfulness based Stress Reduction Programme (MBSR)
Mindfulness based Stress Reduction Programme (MBSR)
Next Course starting: Thursday 26 October 2023, 7 – 9pm GMT
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How Does Mindfulness Reduce Stress?
If we want to reduce the stress in our life, we need to be aware of how much we tend to take things personally. Often these things are not personal. We make them personal by turning them into our own narrative. We end up creating a big story that makes us a victim and we end up believing that this story is true. This truth can be one aspect, but it isn’t a ‘big enough‘ story or the whole dimension. So, we can use mindfulness to extend our awareness and therefore the narrative of our story, to help us reduce stress.
When we undertake mindfulness training, we discover that there is a lot of activity in the brain called the ‘Default Network’. This network is our story and can be particularly painful. The training that we do helps us to alter our perspective and utilises different parts of our brain that enables us to adapt our relationship with our stories; our stories are still there, but they no longer have the power that we keep focusing on this single – painful – narrative.
There is nothing wrong with thinking, but when the thinking takes over and dominates our life, we then become lost in thoughts or oppressed by them and we are not free.
The Mindfulness based Stress Reduction Training gives us a wider dimension to be in a wiser relationship with our thoughts and emotions, which is liberating and therefore freeing.
What is MBSR?
Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, MBSR is based on a form of meditation known as mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a basic human quality, a way of learning to pay wise attention to whatever is happening in your life. Allowing you a greater sense of connection to your life inwardly and outwardly.
Mindfulness is a practice, a systematic method aimed at cultivating clarity, insight and understanding. In the context of your health, mindfulness is a way for you to experientially learn to take better care of yourself, by exploring and understanding the interplay of mind and body and mobilizing your own inner resources for coping and growing.
Nearly four decades of scientific research suggest that training in mindfulness and MBSR can positively and often profoundly affect participants’ ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress while learning to live life more fully.
How will we meet?
For our MBSR Programme, we meet together using the OnlineLIVE platform Zoom. All you need is a computer or laptop and a reliable internet connection. All details and a link to join the call will be sent by email when you sign up.
If you would like a 15min Zoom conversation free of charge to test the platform and to discuss the MBSR OnlineLIVE Programme please contact us to arrange.
Led by our Guiding Teacher
MBSR OnlineLIVE Group Course
starting October 2023
- Thursdays:
Oct 26, Nov 02, Nov 09, Nov 16, Nov 23, Nov 30, Dec 07, Dec 14 - Time zone details:
7 – 9pm GMT, London – UK.
If you are in a different time zone, please use our time zone converter to determine your local time. - plus a ’Day of Practice on & off the cushion’:
Sun 03 December, 11.30am – 6.30pm GMT
If you are in a different time zone, please use our time zone converter to determine your local time.
Please note the ‘Day of Practice’ also takes place online. Details >> - Location:
Online via Zoom 
Cost: including handouts & guided meditation
- £ 250 Individual
- £ 225 Discount Rate – Individual – Friends Membership
- £ 295 Organisation
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Cost: including handouts & guided meditationMBSR OnlineLIVE One-to-One programme
- 10 meetings of 90 mins each
- Cost including handouts & guided meditations:
- £ 1,100
- £ 990 Discount Rate – Friends Membership
- Location:
Online via Zoom or in-person on the Isle of Wight
To work with Susann in a one-to-one capacity online or in-person on the Isle of Wight, please send an email.
Content of the MBSR eight session programme
Please find here the topics covered in the programme:
- Recognising the present moment
- Perception & creative responding
- Practice, practice, practice
- Stress Reactivity:
Investigation of the ways we often cope by escape or denial.
The shadow side of our conditioned coping patterns. - Stress Response:
Responding positively and pro-actively to stressful situations and experiences - Interpersonal mindfulness / mindful communication
- Applying mindfulness
- Making mindfulness a part of your life
Who will benefit?
The MBSR Programme benefits anyone reporting a variety of conditions and concerns:
- Stress – including work, school, family, financial, illness, ageing, grief, uncertainty about the future and feeling ’out of control’.
- Medical conditions – including chronic illness or pain, high blood pressure, cancer, heart disease, asthma, skin disorders and many other conditions.
- Psychological distress – including anxiety, panic, depression, fatigue and sleep disturbances.
- Prevention and Wellness – including health enhancement and wellness focused on prevention and learning the ’how’ of taking good care of yourself and feeling a greater sense of balance.
How does MBSR work?
By practising in sessions, and by listening to guided meditations at home during the week, you learn, practice and integrate mindfulness into your everyday life.
Highly participatory, supportive and structured, the MBSR Programme will provide you with:
- guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices.
- gentle stretching and mindful yoga.
- group dialogue and mindful communication exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life.
- individually tailored instruction.
- daily home assignments.
- guided meditations and handouts.
The programme is challenging and life-affirming. Participating in the Stress Reduction Programme requires an ongoing commitment to yourself.
Registration:
Next MBSR OnlineLIVE Group Course:
starting Thursday 26 October 2023, 7 – 9pm GMT
We very much look forward
to welcoming you!
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Play Video
Arjun talks about his experiences
and the benefits of joining.
Registration:
Next MBSR OnlineLIVE Group Course:
starting Thursday 26 October 2023, 7 – 9pm GMT
By making the booking here, you accept the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
You do NOT need a PayPal account to pay online! On PayPal screen use the credit card or bank account possibility.
Play Video
Arjun talks about his experiences
and the benefits of joining.
