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Meditation and Mindfulness

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MBSR is the original evidence based 8-week mindfulness course founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is delivered in a group setting over 8 weeks/9 sessions with teacher guided formal and informal mindfulness practices. The course empowers participants to cultivate awareness and presence with an accepting and compassionate attitude toward our internal and external experiences and in the flow of daily living.

Angie is a certified mindfulness teacher and teacher trainer. A long-time meditation practitioner, she also teaches mindfulness across different ages and different groups for the past 10 years.  Angie completed her MBSR training with the Mindfulness Training Institute – Australia.

MBSR Course dates

When: Thursday’s

Hong Kong 7:00pm to 9:30pm

2024: May 2 – June 20

All-day Retreat – Day of Mindfulness: June 2 (Sunday) 

Location: HK Island

Teachers: Angie Bucu 

This experiential training program helps you to get to know yourself and cultivate your natural capacity to take good care of yourself.

Using mindfulness practices you learn to step out of habitual and automatic habits that may not be serving you well, and instead discover your capacity to choose purposeful actions that nourish your health and wellbeing. Throughout the program you learn to bring the practice of mindfulness into everyday life experiences helping you to break cycles of anxiety, stress, exhaustion and other difficulties.

The eight-week MBSR is an immersive program allowing participants to develop a regular meditation and mindfulness practice. Building on these practices and week-by-week learnings, participants open up to new discoveries about themselves and how to manage and respond to life’s challenges.

Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, the MBSR is considered the ‘gold-standard’ of mindfulness courses. The program has been extensively researched for more than 40 years.

The benefits of participating in an MBSR program and beyond include:

  • The ability to manage stress from personal and work pressures
  • Working with physical and emotional discomfort
  • Learning how to calm and balance the nervous system
  • Getting to know emotions and how to accept, explore and transform them
  • Improved concentration, focus and clarity in the mind
  • Improved relationships
  • Increase response flexibility rather than reactivity
  • Supporting values – bringing what you care about into how you live
  • Transformational change – discovering how small changes can lead to big shifts in your attitudes and life


Learn to create greater balance and ease in your life through the 8-week MBSR Program REGISTER NOW

the most practical thing we can achieve in any kind of work is insight into what is happening inside of us as we do it.

~ Parker Palmer

What’s included?

Our MBSR offering includes:

  • 1 x one-on-one intake meeting (phone / zoom ) or group orientation session.  This is a requirement for all participants before beginning the program. During this meeting you will have the opportunity to; learn about the program, ask any questions and to determine if this is right for you at this time.
  • 8 x weekly sessions (2.5 hours each) 
  • 1 x day-of-mindfulness retreat
  • In class practical and guided instruction in formal and informal MBSR meditation practices including; body scan, mindful yoga, breath and body awareness meditation
  • Comprehensive course workbook
  • Audio recordings for all guided practices
  • Group discussions to enhance awareness and learn with others
  • Exploring the scientific rationale throughout parts of the course
  • Daily home practice 30-45 min per day. It is important that you make a commitment to the home practice and to attend all classes to gain the most from the program.

Topics week-by-week

Week 1     Cultivating awareness: recognizing the present moment

Week 2     Perception – how we make sense of the world: how we see or don’t see things, including stress and difficulties

Week 3     The pleasure and power of being present

Week 4     Approaching, investigating and working with stressful experiences more skillfully

Week 5     Finding perspective: working with emotions and thoughts

Week 6     Communication: exploring interpersonal relationships

Week 7     Living purposefully: values and action

Week 8     Mindfulness as a way of living and being: how has the 8-week mindful journey impacted our lives 

Session 9 Day of Mindfulness – this day is intended to support participants in firmly incorporating the MBSR skills across different situations in their life. The program for the day includes a rotation of teacher-guided practices: sitting, movement, yoga, stories, eating.

The present moment, whenever it is recognized and honored, reveals a very special, indeed magical power. The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time that we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. – Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and UMass. Medical School Center for Mindfulness

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Investment

Your investment includes a detailed course manual, downloadable guided meditations as well as a personal intake meeting after registration. 

 

Full Rate: HK$3,800**

Concession Rate: HK$3,200** (early bird offer to April 8, 2024)

**Payment plans available

 

Your Trainers

This MBSR Course is co-facilitated by Angie, a trained MBSR Level One MTIA teacher.

Angie is a certified mindfulness teacher, teaching across different ages and different groups for the past 10 years, as well as training others to teach mindfulness to children and teenagers. You can read more about Angie and her mindfulness practicing and teaching offerings here.

To benefit from attending a MBSR program an investment of time and energy is essential. The decision to participate is best made with full information. I will be happy to answer all your questions during our intake meeting or you are welcome to contact me to explore if doing this deep dive with mindfulness through the MBSR is useful for you at this time in your life.

Remember that this inspiring program has the potential to transform your life as you develop emotional, physical, mental and behavioral resilience and wellbeing.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom

~ Victor Frankl

Mindfulness: being fully awake

A ten-minute video introducing what mindfulness means in the context of the MBSR course. Introduction by Saki Santorelli, formally the Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness – University of Massachusetts Medical School, where the MBSR course first began.

Catalyst: The Mindfulness Experiment

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation on their Catalyst program aired an excellent documentary in February 2019 called The Mindfulness Experiment. Catalyst filmed an MBSR program with 15 participants and through scientific testing showed the benefits the course had on treating conditions like chronic pain, anxiety and stress.

ABC Catalyst “The Mindfulness Experiment” from Astrid de Ruiter on Vimeo.

Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn

An excerpt from an interview with MBSR founder Jon Kabat-Zinn as he explains part of the benefit of attending an MBSR course.