MBSR (Mindfulness-based stress reduction) is an 8-week program that represents a secular, intensive training of conscious attention (Mindfulness). The great results of this program have been scientifically researched over the past decades, making it one of the most researched programs based on Far Eastern traditions to date.
MBSR was structured by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn using a combination of ancient Buddhist mindfulness techniques (for developing awareness and calming the mind), yoga, and exercises that explore patterns of behavior, thought, feeling, and action.
Mindfulness can be understood as accepting current experience (bodily sensations, mental states, thoughts, emotions, memories...) without judgment and openly, observing it as it unfolds from moment to moment. Mindfulness introduces a "new way" through attention training and brings better emotional regulation by reducing attention wandering, reactivity, anxiety, stress and worry.
In the past decades, Mindfulness has been the subject of many clinical studies that indicate numerous positive effects on mental and physical health. Although Mindfulness has its roots in the Far Eastern traditions of Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga, MBSR itself is a secular (non-religious) program.
Mental training-attention training
Greater awareness of body and mind that reduces the effects of stress, pain or illness
Observing and accepting experiences that reduce emotional reactivity
Developing resilience in dealing with life changes
Developing non-judgment in everyday life
Recognizing and cultivating inner clarity and calmness
Easier recognition of one's habits, tendencies and conditioning as well as "small tools" for internal change
Experience greater joy, fulfillment and satisfaction
1. Introduction to Mindfulness
2. Attention, thinking and the brain
3. Work with thoughts
4. Stress
5. Working with disturbing experiences
6. Internal communication
7. Relationships with others - empathy and compassion
8. Mindfulness qualities
Using, in addition to a general approach to topics, various exercises as well as modern scientific research.
To make the experience complete, audio and video exercises as well as various forms of formal and informal exercises are available to the participants during the course.
After the end of the program, participants will be able to permanently download and use (in audio, video and written format) all the basic exercises of our program so that they can continue practicing independently.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is the creator of the MBSR program. As a practitioner of yoga, Buddhist meditation and a scientist, he created the synergy of Far Eastern traditions and scientific discoveries that MBSR represents as a program.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scholar, writer and meditation teacher who is credited with widely introducing ancient mindfulness techniques into today's society. He was a longtime professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (1979) and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health, and Society (1995). (Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society - Massachusetts Medical School)
Jon has also made a significant contribution to the popularization of Mindfulness as a writer. His work has contributed to the growing introduction of Mindfulness practices into society's institutions in the fields of medicine, healthcare and hospitals, schools, higher education, corporations, prisons, the judiciary and professional sports.
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