Mindfulness Through the Lifecycles Series

Mindful Parenting Intro Workshop with Rachael Frankford & Sara Marlowe
Thursday Feb 11, 2010, 6pm-9pm
Mindful parenting aims to enhance your emotional connection with your child. It is intended to facilitate your self-awareness, mindfulness and intentionality in responding to your child’s needs—at all ages. This will be an intro evening (please read the description below for further details. *Daytime Workshop also avail.

Mindfulness at the End-of-Life with Dr. Michele Chaban
Thursday Feb 18th, 6pm-9pm
Using theoretical and experiential tools, we will reflect on the meaning of the loss of those we are attached to by sentiment or task, and the loss of self, other and the world in which we live. Through our Mindfulness Meditation practice and reflection, we will explore the meaning of life in death, death in life, and how we understand the cosmology this implies.

Mindfulness for Practitioners with Marie Cumming-Steel
Sunday March 7th, 2pm-5pm
Using Buddhist informed practices of mindfulness and meditation, participants will learn techniques for connecting more deeply with themselves, their clients, and establishing a personal practice of tools to assist them as practitioners working with others.

*All intro evenings are $20 suggested offering.

Mindful Parenting - 6 week series
A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Group for Parents & Caregivers
March 11-April 15, 2010
Thursdays - Day (1-3pm) & Evening hours may be possible (7-9pm).
$120 suggested donation (some scholarships avail).

Mindful parenting aims to enhance your emotional connection with your child. It is intended to facilitate your self-awareness, mindfulness and intentionality in responding to your child’s needs. We also know from emerging research that a parent’s capacity for self-awareness through mindfulness practices is a strong predictor of secure attachment in children. This has implications for children’s mental health and their well being as they develop through the lifespan. This particular group will help parents learn how to apply the principles of mindful parenting through reflective, mindful practices that promote interpersonal and intrapersonal attunement. Often the times children need parental acceptance and love the most are, inevitably, the times when it can be hardest for parents to give. Through developing our capacity for mindful insight, the ability to be present and awake in the moment, no matter what difficulties arise, we are able to connect more fully with our children.

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