Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshop

9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Wednesday, Jan. 17th, 2018

NLHHN Provincial Learning Centre

Presenters: 

Annette Powell                  Paul March                                   Michele Pike

Peer Support Worker       Mental Health Coordinator       Mental Health Consultant

CHANNAL                           Mental Health & Addictions      Mental Health & Addictions  

                                             Eastern Health                               Eastern Health

This workshop is free and open to everyone but registration is limited

Participants will learn a unique approach to mindfulness. Letting go of the past, understanding how life breaks us, gratitude and acceptance will be themes that run throughout the workshop. There will be a sharing about how grounding oneself in the “here-and now” can produce inner peace.

Participants will learn that certain habitual thought processes, (auto-pilot), can fuel unhappiness. The training will invite participants to consider that thoughts have no reality of their own. Yet people rely on thoughts, (concepts and beliefs), to live their lives.

The training will posit that suffering arises when people expect reality to conform to their thoughts about what it should be. At the end of the day, there will be a brief teaching on how to be mindful of awareness itself, that awareness never changes and is always present, open and available. Suffering comes to an end when people learn not to identify with that which changes or passes away. This training, however, will not cover specialized disciplines such as breath work, meditation and yoga.  Neither will it be offered in any way as a form of therapy.

Participants will learn that mindfulness can be used as a tool to enhance well-being and mental health. Participants may expect to learn how mindfulness has been shown to help with stress, anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours such as alcohol or substance misuse and gambling, and physical problems like hypertension, heart disease and chronic pain.

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For more information, please email paul.march@easternhealth.ca