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SUMMARY:8 Week Meditation Workshop (8 Wednesdays)
DESCRIPTION:8 Wednesdays starting on April 4th\, 2018 from 7:30- 9:00 pm \n$100 or $15 per Session \nWho is this workshop for? \n\n\n\n\nPeople who are stressed and emotionally overwhelmed\nPeople who have trouble expressing their emotions\nPeople who feel confused and indecisive \nThose who constantly manifest the same unwanted result\nThose who want to lessen their anger and frustration\n\nThis 8-week workshop is an opportunity to learn: \n\nWhat are emotions and why they play an important role in keeping you healthy\nHow to manage stress and experience emotional well-being\nHow to find ways to deeply connect with your loved ones\nHow to handle difficult emotions \nHow to identify your patterns \nHow to connect with the underlying emotions that we often overlook
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/8-week-meditation-workshop-april-18
LOCATION:Regent Health Center\, 150 Locke St. South\, Hamilton \, ON\, L8P 4A9\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Mira Rostami":MAILTO:mira.rostami@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:1 Day Mindfulness Workshop: Path to Freedom From Fear and Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn meditation techniques:\n\n\n\nto help you see the automatic pilot reactions to everyday fear and anxiety and to explore what happens when you  become more “aware”.\nto help you explore the difference between thinking about anxiety and experiencing it directly through our senses.\nto help you face (rather than avoid) difficulties that arise in your life from time to time.\nto help you explore how negative ways of thinking gradually dissipate when you actively practice self-love and kindness.\nto help you befriend your fear and anxiety\nto help apply Mindfulness into your daily life\, so it’s always there when you need it the most.\n\n 
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/meditation-door-to-freedom-from-fear-and-anxiety-4-wednesdays-7-9-pm
LOCATION:Regent Health Center\, 150 Locke St. South\, Hamilton \, ON\, L8P 4A9\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Mira Rostami":MAILTO:mira.rostami@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:Meditation: How to Harness the Power …
DESCRIPTION:Through simple to understand science\, this workshop will provide an understanding of what meditation is and how we can use it to help begin a journey down the path of stress reduction.\nMeditation techniques will be practiced .No prior knowledge of science or yoga is necessary. \n\n\n\nWhen\nDaily from 6:30am to 8:30am from Wed Apr 11 to Fri May 4 (EDT)\n\n\nWhere\nNative Woman’s Centre\, Hamilton\, Rosedene Ave.
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/meditation-how-to-harness-the-power
LOCATION:Native Woman’s Centre Rosedene Ave Hamilton\, Hamilton
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SUMMARY:MIndful Self-Compassion - a 9 week  course
DESCRIPTION:Apr. 11 – June 6\, 2018\nWednesdays (6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.)\nRetreat:\nSat.\, May 12 (9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.)\nNo previous experience is required to attend this Program \nIncreasingly\, health-care institutions are coming under pressure to do more with less\, to provide quality care with less resources and to improve the experience of patients and their families. \nAs a result\, many health-care workers find themselves grappling with increased levels of stress\, burnout\, compassion/empathy fatigue and conflict within their teams and colleagues. \nThere is a way to create workplaces that both support physician/staff/learner; one that creates resilience and enables compassionate care not only for patients but for fellow co-workers as well. \nMindful Self-Compassion provides emotional strength and resilience\, allowing us to admit our shortcomings\, motivate ourselves with kindness\, forgive ourselves when needed\, relate wholeheartedly to others\, and be more authentically ourselves. Increased self-compassion improves compassion for others. \n– Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism\n– Handle difficult emotions with greater ease\n– Transform challenging relationships\, old and new-  Manage caregiver fatigue\n– Practice the art of savoring and self-appreciation \nMultiple studies have shown that 30-60% of physicians and other health care providers are experiencing significant levels of professional and personal distress\, including burnout\, emotional exhaustion\, and low self-accomplishment. Burnout has been linked to many adverse outcomes including poor quality of care\, increased errors and decreased ability to demonstrate empathy. \nHow can the individuals who choose this “helping” profession thrive in the face of personal and work stresses? As we meet suffering in clinical practice\, can we practice building resilience rather than cynicism and exhaustion? \nWho of us has not left themselves out in the process of caring for others?\nWho does not have an inner critic that barks at us periodically?\nWho has difficulty navigating stress or conflict in interpersonal relationships? \nMindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported\, (evidenced based) 9-week\, training program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on the ground-breaking research of Kristin Neff and the clinical expertise of Christopher Germer\, MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness\, care and understanding. \nThe three key components of self-compassion are self-kindness\, a sense of common humanity\, and balanced\, mindful awareness. Kindness opens our hearts to suffering\, so we can give ourselves what we need. Common humanity opens us to our essential inter-relatedness\, so that we know we aren’t alone. Mindfulness opens us to the present moment\, so we can accept our experience with greater ease. Together they comprise a state of warm-hearted\, connected presence. \nSelf-compassion can be learned by anyone. It is a courageous attitude that stands up to harm\, including the harm that we unwittingly inflict on ourselves through self-criticism\, self-isolation\, or self-absorption.\nSelf-compassion provides emotional strength and resilience\, allowing us to admit our shortcomings\, motivate ourselves with kindness\, forgive ourselves when needed\, relate wholeheartedly to others\, and be more authentically ourselves. \nRapidly expanding research demonstrates that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional well-being\, less anxiety\, depression and stress\, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise\, and satisfying personal relationships and increased compassion for others. \nThis mindfulness course is an experiential curriculum for all health care providers. The program uses didactic teaching\, experiential work including group\, large and small\, interpersonal work as well as individual work. We will meet for 2 1/2 hours each Wednesday and will have a half day retreat after session 5. To receive the most benefit from the program\, participants are advised to attend every session along with the retreat and to develop a mindfulness practice each day during the program. \nLearning Objectives: At the end of this course\, participants will be able to: \n\nDevelop mindfulness\nDevelop self and other observational tools thus improving one’s relationship with self and others\nLearn to manage suffering and difficult emotions\nLearn the skills to start to develop self-compassion\, self-care behaviors\, set realistic personal boundaries to help prevent burnout\nPromote resilience\, health and well-being within the self and the health care environment\n\nFor further information and entire brochure please go to  https://fhs.mcmaster.ca/facdev/documents/MSC2018.pdf \nand to https://fhs.mcmaster.ca/facdev/ for further background information and testimonials by students
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/mindful-self-compassion-a-9-week-course
ORGANIZER;CN="McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development":MAILTO:dicroce@mcmaster.ca
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SUMMARY:The Mindfulness Centre presents Discovering Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:A MINDFULNESS MEDITATION WORKSHOP\nFOR BEGINNERS \nwith \nJennifer Stone BA\, MSc; Alison Kelford\, M.D. \nTaste the potential and benefits of mindfulness:\nExpand your capacity to see\, learn and grow as an individual by\ndiscovering the power of listening. This lively and engaging\nintroductory session for beginners will provide an opportunity to\nfind out what mindfulness practice entails\, and why it is at once\nchallenging\, and yet also a simple and effective way of settling the\nmind and increase attention\, awareness and resilience. \nParticipants will:\n• Experience periods of guided instruction in a number of\nmeditation practices\, silent exploration\, and collective inquiry\nand dialogue\,\n• Cultivate deep\, penetrating awareness and insight\, and the\ncreativity that flows from it\,\n• Learn meditation techniques to improve wellbeing and reduce\nstress\,\n• Discover brain facts that explain the power of mindfulness\, and\n• Develop resources to feel more alive in everyday life. \nWho Should Attend:\nAnyone curious about living deeply and mindfully. This\nworkshop is recommended for those considering enrolling in our\nMBSR-X/MBCT programs. \nAddress: 345 Lakeshore Rd East\, Suite 408\, Oakville\, Ontario L6J 1J5\nTel: (905) 338 1386\, Email: info@mindful.ca\nwww.mindful.ca
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/the-mindfulness-centre-presents-discovering-mindfulness
ORGANIZER;CN="The Minfulness Centre":MAILTO:info@mindful.ca
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SUMMARY:The Mindfulness Centre presents an MBSR REFRESHER
DESCRIPTION:A Mindfulness Meditation Review \nwith \nMarlene Van Esch\, MSW; Linda Macdonald MD \nReview\, digest and consolidate:\nYou have completed the MBSR-X or have other mindfulness meditation\nexperience\, and you want a refresher helping you renew your commitment\,\nreview your practice and consolidate your gains. This workshop will provide\nthe opportunity to revisit the most basic principles of Dynamic Mindfulness\nand clarify misunderstandings that may have crept into your practice. You\nwill be exposed to a combination of necessary theoretical knowledge\, direct\npractice experience and Q&A processing. \nParticipants will:\n• review the basic tools we use to ensure successful practice\,\n• explore various meditation practices and learn to best use them\,\n• define the mind and remember its embodied and relational\nquality\,\n• understand the connections between what we do in meditation and what is\ngoing on in the brain and body\,\n• cultivate deep\, penetrating awareness and the creativity that flows from it\,\n• integrate meditation techniques to improve wellbeing and reduce stress\, and\n• develop resilience and mindsight. \nWho Should Attend:\nAnyone who has taken the MBSR-X/MBCT programs or with other\nmindfulness meditation experience\, wanting to refresh or consolidate some\nof the most basic meditation principles. \nAddress: 345 Lakeshore Rd East\, Suite 408\, Oakville\, Ontario L6J 1J5\nTel: (905) 338 1386\, Email: info@mindful.ca\nwww.mindful.ca
URL:https://mindfulnesshamilton.ca/event/the-mindfulness-centre-presents-an-mbsr-refresher
LOCATION:The Mindfulness Centre\, 345 Lakeshore Rd East\, Suite 408\, Oakville\, Ontario\, L6J 1J5\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="The Minfulness Centre":MAILTO:info@mindful.ca
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