Event Calendar

Current Mindfulness Offerings

Free Introduction to Mindfulness sessions

Including individualized mindfulness training sessions tailored to your schedule.

Drop-in meditation group

When: Most Tuesday evenings beginning, July 13th, 2010, at 6:30-7:15. - July 13 & 27, August 10 & 24, September 7 & 21, October 5 & 19,
November 2 & 16 & 30, December 14
Suggested Fee: $1.00 - $30.00
Where: Mindful Living in Micki Fine's office, 3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 890, Houston, Texas 77098

Practicing meditation in a group can be an important way to deepen practice. The group support provides an experience of being a part of something beyond ourselves, a sense of community and connection. Meditation will include instruction and guidance so that it is appropriate for everyone. No meditation experience is necessary. Attendance at previous sessions is not required. Each session is intended to stand alone.

Day of Mindfulness

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $75

Come renew your sense of stillness, clarity, and connection. Our Day of Mindfulness is a period of extended mindfulness practice and silence which can help you deepen and strengthen your practice. We will experience Noble Silence, mindfulness sitting, walking, and lovingkindness meditations, as well as mindful yoga. The meditations will have enough guidance to allow people of all levels of meditation practice to attend.

Graduate Course
Wednesdays evenings in August
Dates: 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 and 8/25
Time: 6 - 8pm
Cost: $225
In our graduate course we will refine and deepen mindfulness through periods of mindfulness meditation and exploring the practice of holding our emotions with a caring attention so we can learn and grow. Typically we struggle to change our emotional states by pushing away what we don't want and grasping for what we would like thus causing further suffering. We will explore these reactions, our beliefs about emotions, and cultivate befriending them in the midst of our ever-changing experience.

Mindfulness Ethics Workshop
Friday, August 20th, 2010 - 10 a.m. - 4 pm
Cost:$90 ($80 Jung Center members) 4.5 CE hours
Come explore mindfulness practice and learn how it can guide us to perform competently and ethically. Mindfulness, the intentional cultivation of open-hearted, present-moment awareness, can help us to awaken from our habitual mind states that prevent us from handling ethical situations clearly and acting skillfully. Ethical practice by mental health professionals requires self care in order to avoid burn-out and compassion fatigue. We will shine the light of mindfulness on issues such as self-care and critical thinking. This workshop offers a day of instruction, practice, and discussion which can help us to be more aware and compassionate as we make ethical decisions.

8-week Mindfulness Meditation Course
Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 6-8:30 p.m.
Cost: $450
Start date for the next 8-week Mindfulness meditation course. This course consists of 8 weekly sessions, each lasting 2 1/2 hours. In addition to practicing mindfulness meditation, the class provides support for the participants in fostering a daily meditation practice, and discussion about how to integrate mindfulness into various aspects of every-day life. There is a day-long silent retreat in the sixth week of the class to help participants deepen their meditation practice.

Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
Friday 9 a.m.-Sunday 9 a.m., September 17th-19th, 2010
Cost: $225

This silent, overnight, meditation retreat will provide the opportunity for extended practice and silence, which allows us to rest deeply, and further develop connection and clarity. This retreat will be held at the Ruah Center at the Villa de Matel in Houston, TX. It is appropriate for all people regardless of level of meditation experience.