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Note that this is a Premium Choice Membership course that requires approval from your Department Head, and an Mpact Essentials Membership before you may access it. If you would like to take this course, complete the form below. We will then submit it to your department for approval and you will be notified via email if approval has been granted. https://forms.gle/iacUw9QokEW9t8p69

Note: This is a non-accredited course

•  Paying attention on purpose
•  In the present moment,
•  With non-judgmental awareness
• With curiosity, openness, kindness and  compassion

The MBSR program was initially designed by Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D as far back as 1979 and was composed of 8 weeks .It is a program that is in continual development in the Mindfulness based Stress Reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The primary intention of the MBSR curriculum is to create a structured pathway to increase wellbeing for people facing a host of challenges including the demands and stressors inherent in the everyday business of being human beings.

While this programme (Mindfulness Level 2) is a shorter, more didactic version of the 8 week course, you will still learn some valuable tools to be able to weather the stress of work and life and improve communication and productivity.

Embedded within the context of Mind-Body and Participatory Medicine, the MBSR curriculum focuses on the experiential cultivation of both “formal” and “informal” mindfulness practice as a means of familiarizing one self with awareness itself (mindfulness). The recognition of an innate, ever-present awareness is the foundation for the development of positive health behaviors, psychological and emotional resilience, and an overarching sense of wellbeing that can be effectively cultivated and relied upon across the adult life span.

Many physical, psychological and emotional health benefits of MBSR have been reported in scientific literature:

Participants have found the following benefits:

• Increased awareness and concentration
• Discovered new ways to cope more effectively with existing conditions, difficulties or pain
• Learnt to take better care of themselves
• Learnt about themselves in relation to others-thereby enhancing personal and professional relationships

In this program participants will also be introduced to the science behind mindfulness, and the exciting developments around its neurophysiology and the frontiers of mind-body medicine and its application to our work/life balance.