Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Danica

Learn to befriend your mind

An eight-week foundational mindfulness training course which is evidence-based, practical and empowering.

Here's how you can benefit from the course: 

• Build a greater capacity to deal with stress
• Improve your energy levels and overall productivity
• Boost your levels of attention, concentration, and focus
• Experience an increase in a sense of connection, meaning, and purpose with life
• Possess a skill set and adopt a personal practice that can be applied to daily life
• Better approach to chronic pain management

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What you'll learn

Week 1     Recognising the present moment
Week 2     Perception and how we make sense of the world
Week 3     Keeping the body in mind
Week 4     Investigating stressful experience and approaching the difficult
Week 5     Finding perspective: working with emotions and thoughts
Week 6     Relationships and kindness
Week 7     Values and action
Week 8     Making mindfulness a part of your life

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What does MBSR involve?

Pre-MBSR

Registration: Fill up pre-MBSR course questionnaire

During MBSR

• Body and breath awareness training
• Looking into your own patterns of thinking, feeling and action
• Learning how to transform them positively
• Developing a personal practice of mindfulness

How is MBSR conducted?

• A variety of formal and informal mindfulness practices
• Seated, lying down
• Gentle movement
• Brief lectures on stress physiology
• Highly participatory activities and group discussions

Resources provided

• Free access to practice audios and a 100-pg course book from Openground
• Activity materials

Post-MBSR: Be part of an inclusive community to support your practice