Mindfulness Practices for Life

Five Wednesday Evenings
Beginning February 4 and ending March 4 • 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Half-day Retreat on Saturday February 28 • 1:00 to 5:00pm
This course starts from the belief that we don’t practice mindfulness to get better at meditation; we practice mindfulness to get better at life. The course will draw from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) curriculum as well as from Deeper Mindfulness (Williams and Penman, 2023). Both of these sources integrate rigorous science and experiential knowledge from the wisdom traditions to offer practices
consistently resulting in positive outcomes beneficial to beginner and experienced practitioners.
This five-week course will focus on
1. Introducing and cultivating practices that can be integrated into daily life
2. Coming to our senses through pausing and grounding
3. Coming to recognize the feeling tones* pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral and their role in perception and response.
4. Restoring balance, gratitude, and appreciation.
*“Mindfulness of feeling tones is one of the master keys that both reveals and unlocks
the deepest patterns of our conditioning.” Joseph Goldstein