Mindfulness Program

This 8-week introductory group meets once a week for 1 hour 15 minutes. In this group, you will learn:

• What mindfulness is and how it helps to build resiliency
• How mindfulness can increase overall mental and physical health
• How the simple act of breathing can aid in everyday stress management
• Strategies to bring mindfulness into everyday life

This 8-week session meets for 1.5 hours a week and helps participants:

• Make a change in their relationship to their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.
• Learn to recognize their habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and sensing, and how to challenge their automatic reactions to these experiences.
• Learn to accept these events as a predictable part of the human experience and develop a response that is appropriate to the situation rather than reacting to the unpleasant or unwanted experience based on habitual patterns of the mind and body.

Step-by-step instructions are provided for integrating meditation, mindful movement, and cognitive interventions during each group session. Significant mindfulness homework is part of the program.

This 8-week session meets for 1.5 hours a week and helps participants:

• Recognize current patterns of destructive thinking and how this pattern of thought inhibits them from actualizing their authentic self.
• Develop an understanding of their core beliefs and goals and identify the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving them.
• Develop skills to quiet their inner negative dialogue and learn to develop self-compassion and self-confidence.

Through the use of mindfulness, visualization techniques, humor, and mindful self-compassion, participants develop an understanding of their true self. Participants learn that their self-concept indeed has an impact on their ability to achieve their goals and aspirations. “The body achieves what the mind believes,” so feed it positive thoughts.

This 8-week session meets for 1.5 hours a week and helps participants:

• Bring mindful attention to who we are, what we eat, when we eat, where we eat, how we eat and why we eat.
• Develop an awareness of how eating is nourishing for both the mind and the body.

By learning to slow down and be truly present with their food and the people they share their meals with, participants will develop new patterns of eating behaviors, from food choice. to food preparation and consumption.

This group is open to any participant who has completed the Intro session and either the MBCBT or the Fake It Till You Make It session. Participants have the opportunity to discuss their mindfulness practice, participate in a 20- to 30-minute group-guided meditation, and process their experience afterwards. This group meets for 1 hour and is a self-pay group (not covered by insurance); the cost is $20 per session.

This ongoing group meets Thursdays at 6:00 pm at Lahey’s Burlington campus.