Mindfulness for Life Course: Online on Wednesdays 

Mindfulness for Life (also known as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy/Training for Life or MBCT-L), is a course designed to cultivate mindfulness and awareness of the body, emotions, and mind. It is developed based on research conducted at the University of Oxford and other research centres. This program equips participants with practical skills to improve awareness, well-being, resilience, and kindness. It is important to emphasise that Mindfulness for Life is not intended as a treatment for specific physical or psychological conditions. It rather empowers participants to respond more skilfully to life’s inevitable highs and lows.

Course structure & content:

• 8 weekly sessions. Each session lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes. The first and final sessions are extended to 2 hours and 30 minutes.
• This is a structured course where each session builds upon what has been introduced before. This is why it is important to attend all the sessions
• Additional 5-hours session is included to deepen practice, but it is not essential part of the course.
• Each session will have guided and structured meditation practices. Many sessions also have exercises drawn from modern psychology
• Each practice or exercise is followed by a review of what you and/or other participants experienced or discovered in that practice/exercise. This review does not include a discussion of participants’ past history
• Each session is followed by suggestions for personal practice of up to 45 – 60 minutes. This includes both recommended guided practices, and also ways to cultivate new habits of mindfulness in everyday life
• Each session (except the first) includes a review of the previous week’s personal practice
• You will have access to a web resource which gives you guided practices and written material to support each session.
  

Learning Outcomes:
On this course you will learn the following skills:

• How to ‘stabilise the attention’: to recognise mind wandering and ‘autopilot’, and how to bring the attention back to where we want it to be – with interest, patience, and care
• Learning to recognise our patterns of reactivity and how trying to get rid of distress may actually keep us stuck
• Bringing a sense of care and kindness to ourselves in those moments of distress and reactivity
• Using mindfulness to respond skilfully, not react – in ways that support the wellbeing of ourselves and of others around us
• To ‘step back’ a little from our direct experience so that we can see it more clearly, and so choose a kinder response
• Building what we have learnt into our everyday lives.

Location: 

Online on Zoom

Dates: 

On Wednesdays, between 18:30 – 20:45 CEST (Netherlands time), except Session 1 & Session 8 they will be between 18:30 – 21:00 CEST.

• Session 1: 19/06/2024
• Session 2: 26/06/2024
• Session 3: 03/07/2024
• Session 4: 10/07/2024
• Session 5: 17/07/2024
• Session 6: 24/07/2024
• Session 7: 31/07/2024
• Session 8: 07/08/2024

* Notes: 

• The date for the extended ‘ Practice Day’ will be determined later.
• Confirmation of Attendance certificates will be provided to participants who fully attend at least 7 of the 9 Mindfulness for Life sessions (including the Practice Day)

Course Teacher:
This course is led by Hala Ali as a part of her MSt in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy at the University of Oxford.

To Sign up:

Please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/ug6J4jLqcMtqxXea6

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on: hala.mindfulness@gmail.com