"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Do you want to relate differently to stress?
                        
Learn mindfulness skills and how to apply them to daily life
 
Great for beginner or experienced mindfulness practitioners
 
Cultivate emotional intelligence and more enthusiasm for life 

Join tens of thousands whose lives have been transformed by attending the gold standard of mindfulness training for the past 40 years

​​Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

MBSR is an evidence-based experiential 8-week mindfulness training program developed in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. MBSR is the most scientifically researched and utilized mindfulness program in the world. This intensive experiential program combines mindfulness meditation, gentle movement and body-awareness practices and group processing with practical education about stress. MBSR training helps participants relate differently to stresses in their lives and offers the opportunity to cultivate resilience and emotional intelligence. MBSR is backed by 40 years of research showing that people who complete the course improve their relationship with acute and chronic stress, alleviate physical and mental distress and achieve a greater sense of awareness and enthusiasm for life.

MBSR is for YOU if you want to:

• Live in the moment, be more alive, awake and self-aware
• Have flexibility in the face of worry and fear
• Empower your body and mind to be fully present without ruminating on the past or the future
• Learn to respond rather than react to stressful situations
  
• Cultivate emotional and attentional regulation
• Reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, chronic pain and other proven health outcomes
• Learn how to bring mindfulness into activities of daily life
• Gain tools to reduce and relieve stress that really work!

​Details for upcoming MBSR 8-week Course:
all times in Eastern Standard Time

Dates/Times:
FREE Orientation/Info Session (required):
Attend ONE: Wednesday March 8,15 or 22, 2023, 6:00 - 7:30pm
​Register at tinyurl.com/MBSR2023Info

Classes: March 29 - May 17, 2023
Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:30pm
Retreat Day: Saturday, May 6, 9am - 4pm

Cost: Sliding scale $450 - $600
​A limited number of further discounted registrations are available, please inquire using contact form below.
​26 Continuing Education Credits available for New York State LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LMHCs and LCATs for an additional fee

​​What is included in the course?

Each of the 8 weekly 2 ½ hour classes includes formal mindfulness meditation practices and gentle mindful movement. We also will have large and small group discussions that explore our habits of mind in order to learn how these patterns of reactivity can contribute to stress and discover alternate ways of responding with more balance and equanimity.  Between classes 5 and 7 there is a full day of practice on a weekend day.


Recorded mindfulness meditation and movement practices will be received along with a manual of home practices and assignments to be completed between each class.
 
The 8-week MBSR class is a deep dive into mindfulness. You will be invited to make a commitment to attend all classes including the all day class, complete 45 to 60 minutes of home practice and other reflective assignments every day between classes.

MBSR is not psychotherapy but it is a powerful complement to traditional therapeutic treatments.​