Winter Retreat: Cultivating Mindful Goals and Resolutions for the New Year

As you step into a new year, join us for this experiential workshop designed to help you cultivate mindful goals and resolutions for the new year. This session will provide a supportive and reflective environment where you can explore approaching your goals through the lenses of mindfulness, loving-kindness, self-compassion, and intentionality. You will leave the workshop with a clearer understanding of how to set mindful, achievable goals while cultivating strategies to remain focused and mindful amidst distractions. Whether you’re new to mindfulness practices or have prior experience, this session will provide valuable insights and tools for everyone. Join us for this journey of self-discovery and intention-setting as we welcome the new year with clarity, purpose, and mindfulness.

Morning Session: Navigating Challenges with Mindfulness
In the morning, you will explore the obstacles that can get in the way of achieving your goals. Through guided visualization and mindfulness exercises, identify what matters to you and change the conversation you have with yourself as you learn strategies to work mindfully with challenging thoughts and emotions.

Afternoon Session: Mindfulness in the Digital Age
In the afternoon, you will explore how to navigate goal-setting in our technology-driven world. Drawing on research about effective goal-setting, you’ll receive tips for creating a mindful action plan. Activities will include mindful movement, a guided visualization, a digital wellness exercise, and a special closing session.

Things you need to know:

• We will provide a vegetarian lunch with vegan and gluten-free options. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions by emailing info@mindfulnesshamilton.ca
• We will have chairs on hand. If you would like to sit on the floor for the meditation sessions, please bring your own mat, cushion and blanket

Date: Saturday, January 18th, 2025
Time: 9am to 4pm (lunch included)
Location: First Unitarian Church of Hamilton, 170 Dundurn St. S. Hamilton, ON L8P 4K3

Fees:
Early bird until January 10th $120 members; $130 general; $50 students/financial hardship
After January 10th $130 members; $140 general; $60 students/financial hardship

Registration is limited to 30 people

To Register click HERE

The facilitators:

Carla LaBella is a professor of psychology and author of the WOW book: Ways of Optimizing Well-Being. She has gained a reputation for being an authority on positive psychology and is a sought-after speaker on this topic at the college and in her community. With over 20 years of experience teaching psychology and co-creating and teach­ing the ever-popular Positive Psychology course, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work.

Kate Dunn earned her M.A. in Sociology from Western University and Hons. B.A. in Sociology (minor in Women’s Studies) from McMaster University. She is currently a full-time Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies where she teaches a wide range of courses focused on social inequality, positive psychology, and gender. She is trained in Unified Mindfulness (UM), positive space, rainbow diversity, mental health first aid, and has just completed her Empowered Educator microcredential through eCampusOntario. She is also a proud Board Member of the Eva Rothwell Centre.