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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course: June / July 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM - Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course: June / July 2010

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Mindfulness Courses in London

 

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course we run takes place over three half-day sessions and one full day session at fortnightly intervals (appart from the final session, which is one week after the previous session).

The programme is designed to help you learn new ways of handling difficult physical sensations, feelings and moods.

The course we teach is an amalgamation of the MBSR course developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the USA and the MBCT course, developed by Segal, Williams and Teasdale.

The core skill that you will learn is ‘mindfulness’; a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgementally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind, and the world around you. Mindfulness can enable you to see things differently, undoing mental and physical knots and tensions. It can increase your sense of personal confidence, of having more options and more strength to face the different challenges in your life.

Most people completing MBSR programmes report that they gain lasting benefits, such as:

  • more energy and enthusiasm
  • a greater capacity for relaxation
  • more self-confidence
  • an increased ability to handle stressful situations

Home practice is an important part of the course, and each participant is required to undertake to do 40 to 60 minutes of this, six days per week, between each class.

The course consists of 4 classes fortnightly of around 25 people working together as a group. On it, you will learn several key mindfulness practices and have the chance to discuss these and your experience of them in the group. The course is led by Michael Chaskalson.

June / July 2010 session times

 

12 June 1.30pm to 5.30pm
26 June 1.30pm to 5.30pm
10 July 1.30pm to 5.30pm
17 July 10.30am to 5.30pm

 

When & Where



London School of Economics
Houghton Street
WC2A 2AE London
United Kingdom

Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM - Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM (GMT)


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Michael Chaskalson

Based in Cambridge, Michael has a masters degree with distinction in the clinical applications of mindfulness and a thirty year personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines.

He is an honorary research fellow at Bangor University, where he teaches a module on the part-time masters programme in the Department of Psychology.

A member of the core team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor, Michael’s teaching is both theoretical and practical. Drawing on the latest scientific research, including studies from the field of brain science, his approach fuses that with the ancient art of meditative practice.

Michael has run mindfulness programmes for a number of clients in healthcare and corporate contexts (see Michael Chaskalson's corporate profile). He has trained NHS clincians and other psychotherapists in mindfulness skills and runs courses for the general public in London.

Under the name Kulananda he has published six books on mindfulness and related themes. His current book - The Mindful Workplace - will be published by Wiley in Summer 2011.

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