What is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction?
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is a highly experiential program in learning how to meditate, as well as how to relate to life’s challenges with less reactivity and more wisdom and clarity. The MBSR program consists of 8 sessions, each 2.5 hours long and one all-day intensive, day of mindfulness. Each class includes scientifically researched methods for reducing stress while building resilience, balance, and peace of mind. MBSR offers a powerful, integrative approach for tapping into and accessing innate inner resources for healing and well-being. Students will receive supporting materials to develop a practice including audio guidance for practice at home. Follow up emails with resources to support practice will also be sent on a weekly basis.
MBSR is considered one of the most reliable ways to learn how to use mindfulness and meditation to form new skills for living well and enjoying life, regardless of its inevitable ups and downs. This course was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the roles of stress and reactivity in health and healing.
- Cultivate mindful awareness through several different types of meditation practices.
- Establish a daily meditation practice.
- Recognize negative patterns of reactivity triggered by stressors, and utilize mindfulness to develop alternative responses to stress.
- Apply mindfulness to cultivate a deeper connection with your body, emotions, and relationships with others.
