Meditation and Reflection for Wellbeing

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This course will equip you to use meditative and reflective practices to aid your wellbeing and also begin to introduce you to the principles of leading others in these practices.  We’ll explore mindfulness, silence, learning from different spiritualities, the senses, the imagination.  

Afternoon course:

Thursdays 2pm to 3.15pm for five weeks.

Dates: 24th, 31st Mar and 7th, 14th and 21st April

Meeting ID: 850 7069 7545

Passcode: 616039

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: Introduction to Meditation and Reflection

How do we meditate?  What is reflection?  How do practices like Mindfulness help our wellbeing? Session explores the principles of meditation and reflection, Space to Breathe’s approach to this subject (the Wellbeing Triangle) and gives you takeaways to try. 

To try before the session:

Think about your wellbeing and ask yourself:

• If my wellbeing was a colour what would it be?

• If my wellbeing was a weather what would it be?

• If my wellbeing was an animal what would it be?

• If my wellbeing was a food what would it be?

Session 2: Skills and Approaches

We look at meditation and reflection techniques from different traditions and parts of the world. We consider what we can learn from the world of spirituality, the creation of art and the ways our mind, emotions and body can help us understand ourselves. All of these elements will help you build your own toolkit.

Session 3: Sight

This week we consider the ways sights and sounds can be tools to add to our wellbeing. Visual things can lead us into a meditative place and enable everything to be meditation.

Session 4: Sound

How is sound another and different language that we can engage in for meditative practice? We look at calming sounds like the sea, the use of music and the place sound has in our memory and emotion.

Session 5: Meditation, Reflection and the Imagination

In this session we explore the unique place that the imagination has in meditation and reflection. How is this useful to our wellbeing, how does imagination work and where can the imagination take us?

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YOUR FREE WELL? RESOURCES

Part of your registration for the course gives you access to Well? resources for March and April. You’ll receive special emails each week but can also access the resources here. Password is subscription101.

Course Leader

Andy Freeman will be leading this course.  Andy has 20+ year’s experience in leading others in meditative and reflective practice.  He has learnt and developed these skills in faith, charitable and now business settings.  Andy has an MA in Theology from Oxford Brookes University and is a qualified Mental Health First Aider.  

For more visit his LinkedIn page.