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Overview

What is Stress?

Coping with Stress

How to be Mindful

Meaningful Personal Contacts

Creating Emotional Health

Meaning & Mindfulness

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Carol is a passionate and dedicated trainer, facilitator and lecturer, who works in corporate environments as well as in skills and University training. She has more than fifteen years of training experience in these varied contexts. Carol has trained meditation techniques and practiced meditation for around thirteen years.

The primary focus to start will be on Stress Reduction. Carol has a Master’s degree in Education Cum Laude and formal training from the Zur Institute – Innovative Resources & Online Continuing Education - Certificate - Mindfulness and Meditation in Psychotherapeutic Practice, as well as an Introduction to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from eMindful – Evidence based mind body wellness.

Life adventures have taken Carol on journeys to India, where she attended Buddhist teaching and Thailand, where she had exposure to Vipassana meditation practices. She has had meditation training from various monks in contexts both abroad and in South Africa. In growing her passion to help and share with people and to act as a catalyst for positive change, she is venturing into the online training context.

She has also had introductory training in Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy from the University of South Africa – Centre for Applied Psychology.

Carol would like to welcome you to join her on this journey.

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MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) Introduction – Inspired and informed by - A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook (MBSR)* This workshop focuses attention on managing stress to maintain good emotional and physical health.

We have many pressures as a result of our connected lifestyles. Stress as a part of life cannot be escaped.

We all face uncertainties, difficulties, illness, aging and other such life events. * By Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein, 2010, New Harbinger Publications, INC.

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OUR MODERN LIFESTYLES Our modern lifestyles are filled with new threats, such as nuclear war, famine and environmental degrading.

Often we feel uncomfortable and not fully able to connect with others in a meaningful way.

Herbert Benson related that a lot of people are not equipped with coping strategies for dealing with stress, (Benson 1976 p. 3 MBSR Workbook).

ABOUT JON KABAT-ZINN In 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD., founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Programme at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. Kabat-Zinn’s early research showed significant reductions in the symptoms of anxiety and pain in patients whose conditions were chronic.

Since this early beginning as a beneficial process, research has grown showing the benefits of mindfulness in dealing with “stress, depression, substance abuse, pain and illness.” MBSR, p. 3

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP You will be guided to understand the basic elements of emotional health, improve self-awareness and self-image, and clarify the link between physical wellness and emotional wellness.

About the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook The authors of this book are Bob Stahl PHD and Elisha Goldstein PHD. In the introduction to this workbook they explain that mindfulness practice “is the cultivating of non-judgmental awareness in day-to-day life.” This workbook promotes that you take an active role in the promotion of your health and wellbeing. This is our aim too.

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BEGINNINGS About fourteen years ago, Carol embarked on a journey to find balance in life. This happened after many life changes brought instability and some chaos into the flow of life.

FINDING MEDITATION

SHARING THE JOURNEY

This journey led to finding meditation, which changed everything forever and brought about multiple positive changes over time. This lead to a greater resilience to life’s turbulence.

Now is the time to share the journey towards taking the first steps, to a positive balance and more resilience in life, ultimately leading to greater health and wellness.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCE Wellness

Mindfulness

Calm

Practice

Balance

Serenity

Breathing

Stillness

Restoring balance to your life is of paramount importance. Finding moments to be mindful and still, will result in a more resilient mind that can resist the comings and goings of daily stressors. As you practice you will find that you begin to establish a habit of mindfulness, in walking, sitting and other daily tasks.

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JON KABAT-ZINN Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn by Krista Tippett at OnBeing

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So when you hear the word ‘mindfulness,’ if you're not in some sense automatically hearing the word ‘heartfulness’ you're misunderstanding it.

And mindfulness in any event is not a concept; it's a way of being. And it's a way of being awake.

It's not a big deal; it's just that we're never taught that this is part of the human repertoire…

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So what does wakefulness mean? It means resting in a kind of awareness that is so stable that it's not thrown off by the comings and goings of events within the field of awareness.

So that you lose your balance when things go this way and things go that way, but you actually stay grounded when things go your way, as we put it.

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See OnBeing here: http://www.onbeing.org/

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