Drop-In Session: Mindfulness and Resilience in Our Day to Day Relationships

Photo of facilitator Diane Hetrick

Our mindfulness and resilience practices are key to our interactions with others, both loved ones and strangers. Using these practices, we will explore how to facilitate our connection with others. This session will consist of a few minutes of didactic information, and a facilitated meditation, along with other experiential exercises and suggestions for incorporating this into your day to day.

Mindful Self-Compassion

Joel And Hanna Featured

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

Carol Jakus Featured

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.

Drop-in Session: Stepping Out of Overthinking and Into Awareness of the Present Moment

Lisa Baldini

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.