Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course

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MBSR for the General Public

In this 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course you can discover how to:

  • Live life more fully and resourcefully.

  • Increase your ability to handle extremely stressful events with greater balance, resilience and ease

  • Understand your perceptions and how they often cause suffering.

  • Decrease physical and psychological suffering.

  • Strengthen connection with yourself and others.

  • Discover greater energy and enthusiasm for life.

  • Enhance your ability to cope with pain that may not go away.

What to expect:

  • 8 weeks of 2 1/2 hour interactive sessions with Micki Fine M.Ed., LPC

  • Day-long meditation retreat called the Day of Mindfulness

  • Weekly emailed assignments that include suggested reading and

  • Downloadable MP3s - 3 hrs+ of guided meditation including the Body Scan, mindful yoga/stretching, sitting meditation and others.

The MBSR curriculum includes:

  • Discussion about the essential components of mindfulness and how its practice can help us live with greater balance, resilience, ease and love.

  • Learning about and practicing different mindfulness meditations.

  • Group discussion about participants’ meditation practice to encourage each other and examine how we can work with any challenges of practicing.

  • Examination of the stress response and how mindfulness practice can help us reduce stress.

  • Exploration of our habitual automatic behavioral, physical, emotional, and cognitive patterns in order to gradually change them.

  • Investigation and creation of new strategies to respond skillfully to life’s challenges.

  • Creation and practice of new strategies to take better care of ourselves.

There are no MBSR courses scheduled at this time. We do have a 6-week LIVE, online course, Developing Equanimity that starts May 5th. Learn more & join us if it feels right for you.

We’ll announce classes and groups via email as they become available. If you’re not already on my mailing list, please use the form at the bottom of this page to join and you’ll receive announcements.

Mindfulness is best understood through practice, especially in community.  MBSR courses & groups nurture awareness, compassion, and balance in life.  These gifts are magnified through the shared practice, group interaction and presence, and gentle guidance from Micki.  She is dedicated to holding the space where feelings of safety, connection, and identification are possible.

To benefit fully from MBSR training, participants are asked to commit themselves to practice mindfulness meditation from 45 to 60 minutes per day, and are coached to work gently and patiently with this commitment. Read testimonials that speak to the benefits of making this commitment.

Attendance at one of our orientation sessions is required in order to participate in an 8-week MBSR course. These free orientation sessions are hosted on Zoom, no RSVP is required. You are welcome to register for the course and pay before attending an orientation. If you have a pressing question that needs to be addressed before the next orientation, feel free to reach out to us here.

Orientation dates for 2022:

  • Jan. 11th from noon-1 p.m. CST (Tuesday)

  • Jan. 13th from 5-6 p.m. CST (Thursday)

Here is the Zoom link to join the orientation. You don't need a Zoom account to join the orientation nor do you need to pre-install the app. Simply click on the link a few minutes before the meeting is scheduled.

Zoom is an online platform that allows groups of people to video conference; participants can see one another, talk, and even share their screens to collaborate. It also allows small groups of people to enter breakout sessions.

Here is a 1-minute YouTube Video for a quick instruction on how to join a Zoom meeting, if this is new for you.