Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course

 

12 September - 7 November 2017
Tuesdays 1600-1830*

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksbys Walk, London, E9 6DF

42- 44 Brooksbys Walk, London E9 6DF

Free Orientation Class
(see details below)

 

The original eight week mindfulness based stress reduction programme designed and developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Oasis Center for Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

“MBSR is considered by many to be the gold standard of mindfulness provision”
— Jamie Bristow - Director, The Mindfulness Initiative
 
 
 

MBSR™

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR™) courses equip participants with tools and compassionate self awareness so they can manage issues and emerge from the difficulties of the modern world with dignity, strength and resolve.

Learn how to take better care of yourself through the interplay of mind and body - and mobilise your own inner resources for coping, growing and healing.

Structure and Certification 

MBSR™ training takes nine weeks from start to finish and results in certification under the CFM (Centre for Mindfulness) MBSR™ pathway.

 

Benefits

 

Increased awareness & concentration

A quieter mind

Enhanced wellbeing

New ways of coping with:

  • medical conditions (e.g. tinnitus, insomnia)
  • physical pain
  • mental suffering

Taking better care of yourself

Scientifically proven health benefits

A stronger sense of balance

 
 

What is Mindfulness?

 
 
“Mindfulness practice means...

“...that we commit fully in each moment to be present.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn - Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Mindfulness asks us...

“...to simply see, to open to ourselves and, in so doing, to open to the world, learning to be with whatever presents itself.”

— Saki Santarelli - Director, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Clinic

 
 
 

Time Commitment

1 x Free Orientation Class (2hrs)
8 x Weekly Classes (2.5hrs each)
1 x All Day Class* (6hrs)
Tuesdays 1600-1830
12 September - 7 November 2017

Location

The Studio
Chats Palace
42-44 Brooksby's Walk
London E9 6DF

Cost

Adults: £285
Concessions: £185†

 
 

* The All Day Class will take place 1000-1600 on Saturday 28 October
† We have a limited number of concessionary tickets

 

MBSR™

MBSR™ Gallery
Orientation
Orientation

The orientation session introduces you to mindfulness, gives you a general view of the MBSR™ programme and details the time commitment required. We also engage in a short practice and hold interviews to ascertain eligibility.

Class One
Class One

As long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you. No matter what challenges you are facing their difficulties can be worked with. Begin your eight week course by embedding a 45min mindfulness practice known as the Body Scan into your daily routine.

Class Two
Class Two

Class Two highlights perception and response. How you 'view' things largely determines how you respond to them. Reframing your connection to stress reactivity and enhancing your ability to recover from acute stress positively influences long and short term health effects.

Class Three
Class Three

Class Three discusses the pleasure and power in being present. Using a longer experience of formal movement and sitting practice, you are invited to attend to and investigate more deeply the way things are in the body and mind in the present moment.

Class Four
Class Four

By practising mindfulness we cultivate curiosity and openness to the full range of our oftentimes over-conditioned experience. Through this process, we cultivate the ability to step out of automatic habitual stress reactivity and find new ways to relate to internal and external stressful moments and events.

Class Five
Class Five

Investigate the ways we cope with adverse situations by using escape and denial and by naming the shadow side of conditioned coping patterns: substance dependency and numbing & suppression of feelings. Step away from these hitherto 'successful' coping mechanisms and into a more evolutionary taxis instead.

Class Six
Class Six

How to deal with stressful communications, knowing your feelings, expressing them accurately, developing a greater awareness of interpersonal communication patterns and the barriers to developing this awareness. Interpersonal mindfulness: staying aware and balanced in relationships, especially under conditions of acute or chronic stress.

All Day Class
All Day Class

Cultivate a sense of presence from moment to moment, and be open to any experience whether evaluated as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral as an opportunity to practice mindful attention. Participants re-meet themselves in this highly introspective day-long session of formal movement and sitting practices.

Class Seven
Class Seven

Integrate mindful practice more fully and personally into your daily life by choosing and defining your own formal practices and routines. Participants are asked to personally reflect on lifestyle choices that are adaptive and self nourishing as well as those that are not.

Class Eight
Class Eight

Keep up the momentum and discipline developed over the previous nine weeks. Review supportive and integrative books, recordings, graduate programmes, free all day sessions and retreat centres for further development and discovery. Clarify any lingering questions about the practices and their applications in real life.

 
 

AJ Bicât

 
 
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AJ Bicât is one the world's top corporate MEQ® instructors. He has taught in hundreds of organisations including Penguin, M&C Saatchi, Mind Candy, The Department for Work and Pensions and Cisco. 

AJ grew up traveling extensively and studying tribal and religious philosophy in Nepal, Tibet, Australia, Russia and North America. He then built a 20-year career in education, film & TV working for Buena Vista International, BBC TV, Paramount and Channel 4 as an actor, producer, director and writer. 

On returning to live in the UK he became a Qualified MBSR™ Facilitator under the tutelage of Jon Kabat-Zinn's University of Massachusetts Oasis Centre for Mindfulness. AJ Bicât is a registered MBSR UK teacher who meets the Mindfulness Network good practice guidelines.

 
 
 

Orientation Class

If you are able to make the time commitment detailed above and can afford the fee but ultimately you are undecided please feel free to attend the Orientation Session where you will discover:

  • the history of mindfulness
  • how to practice awareness of breath
  • what kind of format the classes will take
  • the time commitment you will make
  • the parameters under which we will all learn together
  • the risks and benefits of the course

The Orientation Class will end with a Q&A and brief individual interview.

Attendance at the Orientation Class does not constitute a commitment to pay or take part in the rest of the course but you should be aware of the time commitment and be able to pay the fee before the first class.

If you already know you are taking the course simply purchase using the button below.

You will still need to attend the Orientation Class as this is compulsory. If you decide not to attend after the Orientation Class your money will be refunded.