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Mindful Resilience and Connection
Focus Area: Cultivating Mindfulness & Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), an empirically-supported 8-week course, combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to enhance our capacity for emotional well-being. MSC practices strengthen our ability to meet life’s difficulties with more wisdom, kindness, and spaciousness, allowing us to relate wholeheartedly to others and be more authentically ourselves.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a scientifically supported program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. to reduce stress and increase well-being. It is thriving worldwide. Attitudes of kindness, acceptance, and patience provide a foundation for the practices of sustained focus, self-regulation, and self-exploration. A greater sense of balance, choice, and freedom is cultivated.
Promoting College Student and Staff Well-being Through a Mindfulness-based Coping Program
This CCFW study evaluated the impact on student and staff well-being of a mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral coping program, Be REAL (Resilient Attitudes & Living), delivered by campus staff using a task-sharing approach.
Drop-in Session: Stepping Out of Overthinking and Into Awareness of the Present Moment
Do you find yourself frequently getting lost in your head and overthinking? When lost in our thoughts, we can spiral into patterns of negative thinking, worry, and stress. When entangled in our thoughts, we miss many important parts of our lives as they are unfolding. During this drop-in, we will offer a guided meditation and learn a foundational practice from Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) that can help us step out of overthinking and meet life’s difficulties with more ease, flexibility, and self-compassion. We will also discuss ways to weave mindfulness and self-compassion into our daily lives.
Drop-in Session: Widening Your Window of Tolerance – Increasing Your Awareness to Live Mindfully
Our actions and behaviors in life are influenced by the state of our nervous system. Learning how to increase our awareness of when and how we get ‘thrown out of our window of tolerance’ either to overwhelm or collapse is a useful skill to live more mindfully. Drawing on the work of Steve Porges and Deb Dana, we will become more familiar with our window of tolerance, learn how to bring ourselves back to safety and stability, and widen our window to be more resilient to life’s challenges.