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Intro to Playful Mindfulness (online version!): A joyful journey to everyday confidence, calm, and connection
INTRO TO PLAYFUL MINDFULNESS
a joyful journey to everyday confidence, calm, and connection
(ONLINE version)
The world has changed with the coronavirus--and that reality is leaving many of us feeling breathless, anxious and frustrated. Mindfulness--paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness--helps us pause, take a breath, and reconnect to a deeper wisdom that helps us meet this unprecedented stress with honesty and resourceful resolve--and even with a spirit of discovery, delight, and contentment.
Integrating insights and exercises from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) with those from improvisational theater, this course will help you forge new neural pathways, build healthy mental habits, and develop a more connected, more charismatic personal presence.
While many think mindfulness training has to be somber or pious (this is serious stuff!), this course offers a different approach. Here, we learn to *play* attention through traditional methods and also through humor, games, and easy shared improv exercises. We'll acknowledge the truth of challenging feelings--and make choices to build the strength of the positive.
Our topics will include our relationship to failure, paying attention, cultivating curiosity and kindness, the mind as storyteller, mindfulness in motion, and moving from reactivity to response. Learning modes will include formal mindfulness practices, informal practices that integrate these skills into daily life, and shared inquiry using safe small and large discussions to draw wisdom from the whole group. We'll also play games!
Classes will happen online through Zoom software and will work best if participants have a quiet, concentrated space for classtime. The course also includes weekly open office hours with the instructor and a complimentary one-on-one support session at some point during the six-week course.
Please note: to get the most out of this class--and to support your classmates and their learning--you should expect to commit to at least twenty minutes of daily practice at home following the course.
ONLINE VERSION
Day(s): Thursday evenings
Duration: Six weeks
Date(s): April 23 - May 28, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:15 pm Thursday afternoons OR
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm, Thursday nights (please make sure to select the appropriate class with the drop-down button!
Location: Zoom room, access information given upon enrollment.
Investment: $247
We want this class to be available to all who would like to take it. If you would like to arrange a Payment Plan or apply for a partial scholarship, please visit www.playfulmindfulness.info/scholarship.
Any cancellations or refunds must be requested per direct conversation with and approval from event organizer and will incur a small and reasonable administrative fee.
Limit: 24 in each section
Since completing his graduate work at Stanford (MBA) and Harvard (Masters of Theology), Ted DesMaisons has studied, performed, and taught improvisation internationally, including with Patricia Ryan Madson, the Stanford Improvisors, and BATS Improv of San Francisco. He is the founder and principal of ANIMA Learning and a trained Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor. Ted also serves as the US Partner for the UK-based Mindfulness in Schools Project and is a registered Patsy Rodenburg Trainer. He co-hosts the Monster Baby Podcast ("A curious romp through the worlds of mindfulness and improvisation") and his first book, Playful Mindfulness just came out in March of 2019.
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LocationYour office, living room, or whatever private space works for you!
99 Westbrook Ave
Daly City, CA 94015
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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