Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (8-week course)
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course will be on Mondays from 10/5/21 - 11/30/21 from 9:00 -11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) and Saturday, November 20, 2021 9:00 am - 5:00 pm for an Day of Mindfulness. The cost is $375 and scholarships are available (email mindfulsel@yahoo.com for an application). Register here.
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week, evidence-based, experiential program designed to provide participants with intensive and systematic training in mindfulness meditation and movement practices. Also, it is a supportive community in which to explore integrating into one's daily life what is discovered and learned through the process of participating in the program.
First created in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, tis class is given in the tradition of the MBSR program he founded which has over 40 years of research that consistently demonstrates positive outcomes associated with increased self-awareness, as well as emotional and attentional regulation.
In addition, outcomes show reductions in symptoms for various physical and behavioral health conditions including anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, as well as changes in risk factors that may lead to more serious chronic ailments.
Join to explore how mindfulness may support living life more fully, with greater ease and joy.
About the Instructor:
I am Jill Stansbury, and I have been studying in spiritual traditions centered around meditation for the last 25 years and practicing with Hindu and Buddhist teachers, as well as at the non-religious Mindfulness Center at Brown University. There I have earned recognition as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program facilitator. I have also learned about scientifically based ways to teach others to skillfully relate to their lives in order to transform the way they relate with discomfort, difficulty, despair, and joy.
In my work, I seek to help people learn tools and build upon their strengths to increase their wellness. Mindfulness provides individuals with the owner’s manual to the mind/body, and I love sharing that information with others because it has provided me with so much freedom in the face of the challenges and difficulty that life sometimes sends my way. Mental freedom, what some teachers refer to as liberation, is something I hold in great esteem in this life. I feel like it is one of my greatest treasures, and I want to share it!