MBSR Weekend with Jon Kabat-Zinn

A Multi-Day Taste of Mindfulness Practice and Dialogue – With Jon Kabat-Zinn

A Mini-Retreat / Workshop for Health Professionals, Psychotherapists, and Educators

In this experiential workshop, we will practice a range of methods for cultivating mindfulness, as used in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) programs, and engage in dialogue about our first-person experience of them, and about their potential clinical applications with clients and patients, as well as their potential value for people seeking to enhance quality of life and optimize well-being.

We will practice the body scan, sitting meditation, mindful yoga, walking meditation, and eating meditation, familiarizing ourselves with spacious wakefulness and silence, and shifting from the domain of doing mode to the domain of being.

We will practice coming to our senses, literally and metaphorically, through bringing open-hearted, non-judging attention to our direct experience of sight, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, and the non-conceptual knowing that attends these and other senses, such as proprioception and introspection, and learning how to rest in awareness itself.

Group dialogue grounded in our first-person experience will be interspersed throughout. Silence will play a major role in this retreat, as well as dialogue.

Note to enrollees: Please wear comfortable and casual clothing that will allow you both the stretch, and to lie down on the floor.

More about the tacher here

The weekend will take place at Beit-Alfa. Link to a map

Registration is open.

For further info and registration please contact: kabat-zinn@tovana.org.il