Everyday Mindfulness
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Everyday Mindfulness
Everyday Mindfulness is a supportive 7-week program that helps you bring the benefits of mindfulness into your everyday life. Taught in person in the beautiful Blue Mountains.
Why do this course?
Everyday Mindfulness, taught in person in the Blue Mountains, is all about you. Your wellbeing, your relationships, your self-kindness, and your ability to meet the challenges of everyday life.
The program supports you to become increasingly more present, mindful of what’s important, engaged, and centred. With regular mindfulness practice in your everyday life, it enables you to face life’s challenges with clarity, flexibility, self-compassion, and the inner resources to be with what is. We’ll tap into your inner well of energy, happiness, tranquillity, and ease.
Focusing on You
Studies suggest mindfulness can help with:
Your mind and brain
Mindfulness increases positive emotions while reducing negative emotions and stress. Plus it can increase the grey matter in brain regions linked to learning, memory, emotional regulation, and empathy.
Your emotional wellbeing
Researchers reviewed more than 200 studies of mindfulness among healthy people and found it was especially effective for reducing stress, anxiety and depression.
Your communication
Mindfulness helps to recover more quickly from conflict and develops the skills for presence and listening.
Your body
A leading study found that practicing mindfulness boosts our immune system's ability to fight illness.
Your kindness to self and others
Evidence suggests mindfulness training makes us more likely to help someone in need and boost self-compassion.
Your concentration
Mindfulness can help us focus on the task at hand, tune out distractions, and improve memory, attention skills, and decision-making.
And so much more!
Mindfulness is about befriending who we already are.
Everyday Mindfulness in the Blue Mountains
Everyday Mindfulness: Introductory Video
Everyday Mindfulness: Course Outline
Week 1:
The taste of mindfulness
Learn what mindfulness is and is not
Hear about the research
Get a taste of mindfulness through an everyday activity
Begin the foundational practice of a sitting mindfulness meditation
Week 2:
Be where your feet are
Practice mindfulness of the body
Reduce physical tension
Open to the senses
Cultivate a stable grounded presence
How to handle tiredness in the practice
Week 3:
Walking the balance beam of life
Learn what can knock us off balance in life
Learn how to come back to centre
Strengthen ability to respond rather than react
How to handle restlessness in the practice
Week 4:
Being with the difficult
Learn the R.A.I.N. technique to be with a difficult experience
The role of emotions, thoughts, and sensations
Working with physical pain and discomfort
Practicing self-compassion
Week 5:
We need to talk
Relational mindfulness in daily life
How to speak with intention and listen with attention
Understanding conflict
Broadening compassion to others.
Week 6:
Life practice
This is a life practice week with no in-person class. It’s a time to embed the practices, and reflect on learning
Gather your questions for discussion at the final class next week
Week 7:
Integration
We return to integrate all the experiences of the previous weeks
Next steps for long-term establishment of the habit
Receive the details to join the free fortnightly online drop-in mindfulness meditation group led by Jen
As well, each class includes at least one guided meditation, Q&A, and plenty of time for discussion.
You also receive:
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Permanent access to Jen’s guided meditations
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Full of information, exercises, tips, quotes, and space for reflection.
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Both before and during the course, you’ll have a dedicated one-on-one time with Jen to discuss your goals and mindfulness practice
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Each week you’ll get an email with follow-up resources, tips and videos including The Mindful Minute videos that relate to that week’s topic.
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After the course is over you can attend the free fortnightly online drop-in mindfulness meditation group where Jen leads a different practice each time.
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Mindfulness is a team sport. During the course you can join the supportive optional WhatsApp group and, after it is over, you can join the Open Wisdom closed Facebook group and take part in the practice group mentioned above.
Your facilitator: Jen
Hi, I’m Jenny Steadman and I’d love to help you incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life.
Perhaps you’ve tried a meditation app, or read a book about mindfulness and want to develop your skills. Or maybe, like so many people right now, you’re experiencing anxiety and stress and want some practical tools to boost your well-being.
Do you ever feel as though life is rushing by too quickly? Or perhaps you feel like time is slipping past and you wonder how to make the most of it.
With mindfulness, we learn to enjoy everything the good times offer. And face the hard times with greater resilience. When I received my breast cancer diagnosis, the skills I’d learnt through studying mindfulness and meditation helped so much!
I am one of only four fully certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teachers in NSW (as listed on the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia & NZ website), I’m a certified Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness practitioner and a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. I teach from my base in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
What people are saying:
“I am less stressed … and much more mindful during daily tasks and conversations.”
— Tracey R
“The course was amazing! It really helped me identify how to become a more well rounded person and start to nurture qualities I had previously ignored.”
— Thomas
“The best ever. I’m really looking forward to doing more of this in the future.”
— Kathy
“Thank you Jen. There are really not enough words to say for all that you have given us. Your words, voice, wisdom, patience, gentleness, non-judgement are truly wonderful and so appreciated.”
— Danielle
Start your mindfulness journey today.
Interested to attend Open Wisdom’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program instead of (or in addition to) Everyday Mindfulness?
Click the button below to register your interest to the attend the MBSR program in the Blue Mountains.