SIT Mindfulness
This Six week Introductory Training (SIT) in Mindfulness will teach you to develop a focused and embodied attention, self awareness, emotional intelligence, and greater sense of ease and well being. You will learn a variety of mindfulness meditations and practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily activities at work, home and in relationships.
The course will include the following:
- Training in meditation, developing awareness of breath, body, feelings and thoughts.
- Managing stress and learning how to shift from reaction to response.
- Recognizing and letting go of unhelpful habitual thoughts and mind states.
- Exploring, understanding and working with a range of emotional experience.
The SIT course is designed for beginners to mindfulness or those who would like a refresher in its basic principles and techniques.
This course has been developed by the Mindfulness Training Institute.
Each two-hour class will have a mix of the following components:
- Guided meditation
- Talk on weekly themes
- Practice check-ins
- Question and Responses
- Experiential practices or exercises
- Small group practices (dyads, triads, mindful listening and speaking), or alternative journaling activities
- Suggested home practices
We aspire always to nurture community and connection. Committed to being truly inclusive, we welcome people of all social identities, including all ethnicities, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, abilities and cultures.