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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Mobilize your own inner resources for learning, growing and healing. In this intensive training, you will learn to access and cultivate your natural capacity to actively engage in caring for yourself to nd greater balance, ease and peace of mind. Participants will bene t from the well- researched and intentionally structured eight-week MBSR curriculum, led by a quali ed and experienced facilitator of MBSR, trained and endorsed by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Facilitator: Patricia Galaczy
Length: 8 consecutive Mon + 1 Sat
Date: Mon, Mar 26 to Mon, May 14, 2018
Time: 5pm-7:30pm and 9:30-4pm on Sat, May, 5, 2018 Cost: $365 + applicable taxes
Neuroscience of
Mindfulness
Neuroscience is providing new insights into how our brain impacts how we think, feel, act, learn and change. This workshop will explore how emerging neuroscience knowledge informs our understanding of mindfulness and how this new knowledge can be used to promote psychotherapeutic change and enhanced learning.
Facilitator: Paul Mohapel
Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Apr 28 and Sun, Apr 29, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $295 + applicable taxes
Mind & Spirit
A Field Guide to Your Wild Side:
Looking into the Nature of Ecopsychology
Ecopsychology seeks to enhance our understanding of, and relationship with, the wild earth; (re)minding us that the personal and the planetary are interconnected at the soul level. We will linger at the con uence of whole systems thinking, depth, archetypal, and transpersonal psychology, and deep ecology to restore our human-nature connection and rekindle an intrinsic compassion for all living beings. Integrating
theory with experiential, embodied practices, we will take our learning out onto the land.
Facilitator: Hilary Leighton Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, May 26, 2018 Time: 10am-5pm
Cost: $109 + applicable taxes
Breaking through the Shame Barrier: Daring to Lead Yourself with Courage
This workshop incorporates elements
of Dr. Brené Brown’s research on shame and vulnerability. Through experiential activities, participants will explore shame’s role in ‘keeping us small’ and how to
step into courage and vulnerability for greater ful llment. Tools and strategies for continued personal growth beyond the classroom will be provided.
Facilitator: Suzanne Ricard-Greenway Length: 1 day
Date: Tue, May 15, 2018
Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $149 + applicable taxes
Counselling as if the Earth Mattered: An Introduction to Ecotherapy
Explore the theory and practice of nature- based therapies as we speci cally address strategies, ethics and other considerations in applying ecotherapies for social service providers and allied professionals.
This course begins with a short historical sketch of the eld of applied ecopsychology (inspired by Macy, Hillman, Jung, Muir, Thoreau, Naess, etc.) plus an examination of existing ecotherapies, followed by a series of experiential activities that brings nature into the therapeutic process as
a co-facilitator. Low risk nature-based approaches as ideal expressions of applied ecopsychology will be offered.
Facilitators: Dave Segal and Hilary Leighton Length: 2 days
Date: Sat, Apr 21 and Sun, Apr 22, 2018 Time: 10am-5pm
Cost: $249 + applicable taxes
Meditations That
Heal the Heart
Both our being and the cosmos long to heal, to be whole. According to Buddhism’s bodhichitta tradition, when we open the human heart, this longing is expressed as a
transformative warmth – warmth capable of bringing healing to ourselves, others, and this world. Using the Meditating with the Body practices of Reggie Ray, this workshop will guide us into our unique physical incarnation and welcome the heart’s potent tenderness into our lives. Same weekend as Meditations That Uncover Our Lives.
Facilitator: Neil McKinlay Length: 1 day
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $89 + applicable taxes
Meditations That
Settle the Mind
An unsettled mind – bouncing, restless, ever-active – is perhaps the most pervasive marker of this modern era. In cultivating
a more intimate relationship with the body, we begin to counter this tendency. Developing our innate capacity to rest
in the body, we nd our mind naturally settles, naturally opens to and welcomes all experience. Using the Meditating with the Body practices of Reggie Ray, this workshop will guide us into connection with the body and with the well-being and ease that awaits there. Same weekend as Meditations That Welcome the Earth.
Facilitator: Neil McKinlay Length: 1 day
Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $89 + applicable taxes
Meditations That
Uncover Our Lives
The life we yearn for – a life marked by clarity, sensitivity, and connection – awaits each of us. Beneath the distraction of ever- active minds, this life waits in the immediacy of the body. Through developing our capacity to rest in somatic experience, we discover that all we want and need is right here. Using the Meditating with the Body practices of Reggie Ray, this workshop guides us
into the body and allows us to uncover the richness that awaits. Same weekend as Meditations That Heal the Heart.
Facilitator: Neil McKinlay Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $89 + applicable taxes
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