Mindfulness & Compassion
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Mindfulness & Compassion
This course is designed to teach you how to bring the practices of mindfulness and compassion into your life. Helping you to deal with stress, anxiety, low mood, depression or simply bring more joy and happiness into your life.
The course helps participants integrate techniques of being in the present moment and building kindness for the challenges they face.
Mindfulness is a powerful technique of training the mind to stay in the present and unhook from worrisome or depressive thoughts.
Compassion is about bringing kindness to your human experience of suffering or challenges.
All too often our minds race into the future or the past and leave us little peace in the present moment. Similarly, we live in a society that has evolved based on our capacity to judge and evaluate and create positive change. However, this judging mind can be very unhelpful and even harmful when left unchecked.
Why Practice Mindfulness and Compassion?
Research shows that regular practice in mindfulness and compassion can help to manage feelings of stress, anxiety, worry or low mood and build confidence to navigate every day and challenging life experiences. This course is based on effective tools such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living.
Through this course, you will learn skills in mindfulness and compassion.
What’s included:
Daily bite-sized lessons that teach core coping skills 10 minutes a day followed by a 10-20 minute practice. This learning builds a layered approach supporting you to learn about your mind and it’s tendencies.
Daily exercises which are designed to help integrate new skills and support you in dealing with everyday challenges and triggers.
Progress Tracking – questionnaires to help monitor your wellbeing and progress.
Building Healthy Habits of Mind
Habits are built over 21-days so this little programme will help teens to develop healthy habits of the mind.
Backed by Science
This course has been adapted from evidence-based approaches to anxiety and depression in adults, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. MBSR, MBCT and CBT have been extensively researched and evaluated in RCTs and effectiveness studies.
WHY CHOOSE THIS Course with Sue...
Sue has been involved in designing, delivering and evaluating courses that support professionals to work with children, adolescents and families for the past 15 years. She has developed trusted programmes for the Health Service Executive - Ireland, Tusla – Ireland, Department of Education – Ireland, Youth Organisations – Ireland and Internationally.
Sue has worked with teenagers and adults since 2005, she takes a client-centred, needs-led and outcomes-focused approach to the programmes she develops to ensure they best meet the needs of users and are informed by best available evidence.
Sue Redmond, PhD has a professional background in science, youth and community work and health promotion and sociology. She holds a PhD in Youth leadership, resilience and social support. She is a teacher of MBSR, MBCT and MBCL. She is a transformational coach who works with adolescents and adults.
No-Risk - My Promise
When you turn up every day and put in the work, you will build up new neural pathways that help change how you relate to the present moment. This course will help to train your mind to let go of negative thought trains and help you consciously choose where you want to focus your attention. If you do the work and find it's not working for you, you can request a refund.
So, the question is are you ready to bring more presence, wisdom and joy into their life?
Introduction to Sue & Course
FREE PREVIEWBaseline Survey
Getting the most out of this course
The Science Supporting Mindfulness
Breath Awareness Practice
Day 3: Attuning to the Body & Sensations
Body Scan
Simple Awareness
Day 4: Thoughts
Meditation on Thoughts
Notice Your Thoughts
Day 5: Emotions
Meditation on Emotions
Notice Your Emotions
Stress Reactivity Cycle
Notice Your Stress Triggers
Body Scan
Implementation & Review Day
What is Compassion?
Self-Compassion Mantra
A Safe Place Meditation
Three Emotional Regulation Systems
Kindness to the body
Compassionate Companion & Thought Trains
Compassionate Companion Practice
Being with Pleasant Experiences
Gratitude Practice
Gratitude Journal
Being with Unpleasant Experiences
Mindful Walking
Being with Unpleasant Experiences
Being with Difficult Emotions
Notice your inner critic or inner bully.
Meditation Being with Difficult Emotions
3 Step Breathing Space
Gratitude & Appreciation - Widening the Circle of Compassion
Widening the Circle of Compassion
Write a Gratitude Letter
Implementation & Review Day
Who I am - Creative Activity
Compassionately Being with Desire
Meditation Compassionately Being with Desire
What is REAL?
Sitting Meditation
Byron Katie 4 Questions - The Work
Emotional Ownership
Sitting Meditation
Connect with Your Emotions
On Grief, Living and Dying
Funeral Exercise 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Preparing for the Death of a Loved One
On Forgiveness
Meditation RAIN on Forgiveness
Practising Forgiveness or Letting go of Hurt
Implementation & Review Day
Compassionately Dealing with Resistance
Meditation - Compassionately Dealing with Resistance
Being in Nature
Mindful Walking
Becoming Resilient
Body Scan
Being Resilience
Moving from Stress Reaction to Response
Sitting Meditation
Stress Triggers & Compassionate Response
Love or Fear?
Body Scan
Explore your actions
Purpose of Anxiety
Mountain Meditation
Explore Anxiety
Childlike Wonder
Kindness to the Body
Activating Childlike Wonder
Implementation & Review Day
The Power of One
Compassionately Dealing with Resistance
The Starfish Story
The Function of Guilt
Meditation Bringing Compassion to Guilt
Guilt & Should
Shine Your Light
Sitting Meditation
Journal Your Potential
Letting Go
Practice Letting Go
Letting Go
Equanimity is not Apathy
Sitting Meditation
Equanimity
Kindness & Compassion for the Body
Kindness & Compassion for the Body
Kindness Poem
Day 36_ End of Course & Loving-Kindness Meditation
Beyond Endings
End of Course Survey