8 Week Online Collaborative Program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) with 10 Live Sessions
Online MBSR Course
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an eight-week, 10 classes, evidence-based program that provides participants with intensive experiential training in mindfulness meditation and mindfulness movement. Throughout the program, you will learn how to integrate the new learnings into daily life.
Meet the instructors
Irena & Rossana L.
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Highlights
- 10 live classes
- Live online sessions are held via Zoom
- Online session's time zone: Rossana Counseling is based in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (GMT-5)
- Practices to improve your ability to deal with stress and tension
- Discover and develop your ability to help yourself walk towards greater balance and awareness
- Become increasingly aware of the interaction between the body and the mind
Styles
10 days with instruction
Program
Tools required
To take this MBSR program here is what you will need as technology:
- Download the Zoom app for free once you receive the Zoom room link.
- Zoom is a reliable and widely used platform for video conferencing and teaching.
- A computer with a speaker, microphone, and camera.
- High-speed internet connection
Please note: tablets, phones, and Chrome Books are not recommended due to the inability to offer a full range of online experiences.
How the course works
This MBSR course is offered by two fully certified MBSR teachers. The total duration of this course is 8 weeks with 10 live sessions that will be conducted every Tuesday. The duration of the first and the eighth class would be longer than the rest of the classes.
Timing of sessions / daily schedule (GMT-5)
- Orientation: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 1: Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST (The first and last classes are longer)
- Class 2: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 3: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 4: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 5: Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Online retreat class: Saturday, May 22nd – 9:30 am to 4:30 p.m.
- Class 6: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 7: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST
- Class 8: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 – 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST (The last and first classes are longer)
Course information
With this 8-week, 10 classes program you will experience powerful practices such as the body scan, mindful movement, loving-kindness meditation, sitting meditation, and walking meditation. The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues and it is taught all over the world.
You will immerse yourself in the application of the MBSR practices in your daily life, including stress reduction, increased awareness, self-reflection, self-care, and self-esteem. The MBSR program supports health, healing, spiritual enrichment, and personal growth.
The MBSR 8-week program is the first mandatory step on the certification path to becoming an MBSR teacher. If you attend all 10 sessions, you will get a certificate that will entitle you to start your journey to become an MBSR teacher, in case that is your wish.
Material:
- Guided instructions for body awareness
- Dialogues and group sharing to develop the ability to balance emotions and respond to day-to-day challenges
- Dialogues and group exploration on topics relevant to emotional development and stress reduction.
What participants will get in the MBSR program
- Practices to improve your ability to deal with stress and tension
- Become increasingly aware of the interaction between the body and the mind
- Facing moments of change and difficulties in your life with equanimity
- Discover and develop your ability to help yourself walk towards greater balance and awareness
- MBSR offers an opportunity to restore our lives by offering the opportunity to cultivate the clarity, insight, integrity, and dignity that we deserve
Two decades of focused studies show that people who have completed this MBSR program show:
- A decrease in physical and psychological stress symptoms
- Increased self-esteem and self-confidence
- Increased ability to deal effectively with stressful situations in the short, medium, and long term
- Increased physical and psychological well-being
People participate for several reasons:
- Stress: work, family, finances
- Chronic pain or chronic illnesses
- Anxiety, panic, depression
- Gastrointestinal problems (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome)
- Fatigue
- Hypertension
- Headache and migraines
- Cancer
- Skin problems (e.g. Psoriasis)
- Food syndromes (e.g. anorexia, bulimia)
- Post-traumatic syndrome
- Diabetes
- Multiple sclerosis
- Asthma and other breathing problems
- Menopause
- Sleep disorders
- Fibromyalgia
Instructors
Irena Danys, MD
Irena Danys is a physician and the founder of Mindful Healers, providing quality meditation and mindfulness programs for individuals, groups, schools, and businesses. A long-time student and practitioner of meditative practices, she saw the personal benefits of mindfulness and meditation throughout the challenges of life, strife, and a busy medical career. This compelled her to study and train at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at UMass Medical School, Worcester, becoming a qualified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Rossana L. Magalhaes, LCMHC
Rossana is a board-certified clinical mental health counselor and a certified MBSR teacher. Rossana studied with the University of Massachusetts Medical School and became a qualified MBSR teacher. With persistence and determination, Rossana continued with numerous mindfulness-based retreats, training, and extensive supervision, and received the title of certified MBSR teacher from Mindfulness Center at Brown University, Rhode Island. Rossana was a Mindfulness teacher at the Brain Mechanisms of Pain and Health Laboratory at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Location
This MBSR course is held online. Rossana Counseling is based in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, Eastern Time Zone (GMT-5) and they will live-stream the classes via Google Hangouts which you can participate from the comfort of your home by just using your phone or computer.
What's included
- 10 live MBSR classes
- A full day of Mindfulness
What's not included
- Accommodation
- Meals
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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