Mindfulness and creativity

11/01/2023

❤️ Stress effects us all. It seems the pressure we are all under, seems to be increasing by the day. I am genuinely honoured to be able to teach people the potent, life changing skills, contained in the MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. When someone votes for themselves, and signs up to take this, globally recognised, Gold Standard course, I commit 100% to being with them every step of the journey. My promise to each and every participant, is to offer 100% support in every way that is possible.

This is why I have created the Interactive Dashboard, which each participant has personal access to, while taking the course. It took me 3,500 hours to create. Now each participant has 24/7 access to their own, easy to use, Personal Support Dashboard. This is the only Live Online MBSR course Globally, with this comprehensive level of support.

Offering this course Online is working better than I ever could have imagined. Participants feedback and reviews are genuinely humbling.

Thank you Carmel for your wonderful review, I really appreciate it.

Una
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If you or someone you know is stressed and would like to take this training course, which teaches highly effective skills to address stress. The next Live Online 8 wk course starts 18th Jan (Wednesday evenings). Places are limited and are now booking.

(Only highly trained, qualified, professional MBSR Mindfulness instructors can offer this course)

👉FOR MORE INFORMATION :
https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

11/01/2023

❤️ Why Self Awareness Is The Most Important Skill For Hybrid Leadership

Self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your emotions, values, beliefs, behaviors, passions, purpose, etc.





https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2023/01/10/why-self-awareness-is-the-most-important-skill-for-hybrid-leadership/

Incorporating self-awareness into the early stages of leadership development programs helps provide success-driven talent with the necessary foundation on which to build their unique platform.

11/01/2023

❤️7 ways to feel better at work and avoid burnout
Symptoms of burnout include energy depletion or exhaustion, decreased productivity, and increased negative feelings toward work.

LINK:

It's time to work smarter, not harder.

23/11/2022

❤️ Well worth a read, some valuable wisdom, based on science and courageous embodiment.

Una
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Hug the monkey inside yourself helps satisfy an innate human need for connection can remedy old pain and provides that fundamental human sustenance: love.

25/10/2022

❤️ MORNING PRACTICE
One of the most difficult parts of meditation practice is allowing ourselves to turn up. The "Thinking Mind" resists turning up, because it knows it will no longer be in the driving seat, once we begin to meditate. So it tells the proud STORY of meditating, but resists allowing the body to actually sit, steady, stabilise, and begin to practice.

If you call yourself a meditator, but secretly know you don't turn up that often, then practice Non-judgement, acknowledge the resistance and practice "Turning Towards" your meditation chair.

Literally "Turn Towards" the room you intend to meditate in, stop and breathe, then begin to walk slowly towards the room, stop and breath ... today you may land on the chair or maybe it will be tomorrow but know you have Already begun meditating by "Turning towards and breathing."
👉 Mindfulness Meditation Training
(Www.MindfulnessWexford.Com)

15/10/2022

❤️ ONLY a Couple of places available on upcoming course !!!
This is the Gold Standard of Mindfulness Courses, which trains you how to reduce your INTERNAL experience of stress, and how to work skillfully with the EXTERNAL stress in your life.

This Live-Online Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) 8-week course uses a combination of mindfulness skills including, meditation, body awareness, mindful movement, mindful communication, awareness of emotions, and regulation of stress triggers and reactions, to assist people coping with STRES...

08/10/2022

❤️ PERSPECTIVE
The capacity to "Be with" & "Stay with" an experience, is developed through practice.
Most experiences, trigger some reaction in us, where we want to move on, turn away, or distract our selves (our attention).
Every experience stimulates, Thinking, Sensations & Emotions. Each of these phenomena, has the ability to capture our attention and hold it, till our attention becomes totally absorbed by it. Our attention then becomes unavailable, and no longer free, to fully witness what is happening, in the next moment.( or put it another way ... within the dynamic ever changing present moment).

The practice of Mindfulness, helps us build the inner capacity to witness what is happening, and "Be with" the changing qualities of both inner and outer experience.

Without Mindful Awareness...the tendency to become absorbed in tunnel vision & narrow takes, on what is happening, is very high. (I.E. When strong sensations, emotions, thoughts are stimulated, dictating the "absolute indisputable take" on what is happening)

The practice of Mindfulness, builds our ability to anchor attention to the ever flowing present moment. This widens our perspective and increases our awareness of what is happening. We become aware of information, which we were previously blind to (when tunnel visioned).

We gain the capacity to literally SEE New perspectives.... and RESPOND with greater CLARITY.

(Image: Katja Lang)

09/08/2022

❤️ PEACE takes courage

❤️ PEACE takes courage
❤️ PEACE takes strength
❤️ PEACE requires Awareness of internal "Rage" and choosing to sit with it, instead of projecting rage out into the world.
❤️ PEACE requires Awareness of internal "Fear" and choosing to acknowledge it, to sit with it, and to be with it, instead of projecting fear out into the world.
❤️ PEACE requires developing the capacity to "Be kind" to ourselves, as we acknowledge all our habitual automatic "Reactions" of "Rage" & "Fear".
❤️ PEACE requires allowing compassion to generate internally.
❤️ PEACE requires compassion to transform our "Mindless Reactions" of "Rage" & "Fear" into fuel for "Mindful Responses"
❤️ PEACE is first and foremost practiced, championed and generated internally, it then radiates outward.
❤️ PEACE is never permanent, and cannot be owned, or possessed, it is championed and practiced moment by moment by moment
❤️ PEACE is a lived experience
❤️ MAY we champion, practice & generate PEACE, Moment by Moment by Moment

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19/07/2022

❤️ Where you place your ATTENTION is Where you place your ENERGY ........ ENERGY flows where FOCUS goes
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15/07/2022

❤️Train to Teach The Mindful Warrior Programme
A Training Programme for Youth-workers & School Teachers

THIS IS AN ONSITE COURSE
The Sanctuary is now offering a training course for those who work with young people to enable them to deliver our Mindful Warrior Programme in their own school or centre.

WHAT IS THE MINDFUL WARRIOR?
The Warrior Programme is a teacher trainer programme that draws on the various traditions of culture and the arts, helping young people to end up as gentle warriors. It is built around an initiation framework linked to adolescent psychological development that includes:
Mindfulness and movement practices
Insights from psychology of adolescent development
Ways to experience moments of reflective stillness
Traditional wisdom embodied in the ‘gentle warrior’ figure
Use of creative imagination

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Inclusion of the Mindful Warrior Programme in the classroom helps to transform young people’s behaviour and helps them to develop self-awareness and the resilience needed to deal with challenges and disappointments in life.

WHO IS THE MINDFUL WARRIOR PROGRAMME FOR?
It best serves the needs of a cohort of young people who require an alternative, experiential-led approach to their development and is particularly suited to young people from 6th class to 2nd year, who are finding the journey to maturity and social integration challenging.

WILL I GET RESOURCES I CAN USE IN THE CLASSROOM?
Yes, you will be supplied with handouts and lesson plans, we also offer follow up reconnection days so that we can help you continue your practise.

ARE THERE PREREQUISITES TO JOIN THIS COURSE?
Applicants to the facilitator training course should have undertaken some prior mindfulness training and have established a regular mindfulness practice.

PREREQUISITES TO THE COURSE INCLUDE:
Ideally, applicants should have completed an 8-week mindfulness course such as MBSR / MBCT / MBLC / MBCL / Breathworks / .b Foundations or the Art of Stillness in the Classroom, with at least 6 months of a minimum of 20 minutes of mindfulness practice per day (such as sitting or body scan practices).Exceptions to the qualification prerequisites outlined above may be made for applicants who have a long-standing mindfulness practice in other contexts (eg. Vipassana / Shamatha / Insight Meditation or WCCM / Centering Prayer)

Day & Date: : Monday 15th August – Friday 19th August 2022
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Price: €650

LINK: https://www.sanctuary.ie/train-to-teach-the-mindful-warrior-programme/

*Please email nikkisolyom@sanctuary.ie for further information.*

15/07/2022

❤️Only 2 PLACES LEFT !!!
24th JULY (Sunday 10am - 4pm)
FULL DAY MINDFULNESS RETREAT Coming up !!!
If you are interested in taking a (Level 1) Full Day Mindfulness Retreat, there is one coming up on the 24th July (Sunday 10am - 4.00pm).

This is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators, who have NOT yet completed the 8 week MBSR Mindfulness training course, (MBSR=See below)

🔵This Retreat is now taking bookings
👉BOOKING LINK: https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/mindfulness-retreats-days-ireland/

👉DETAILS:
Give yourself a Full day of guided practice on this Mindfulness Retreat, dedicated to your well-being. Enjoy some peace and calm, as you practice the skills of Mindfulness, in a beautiful private yoga studio beside the beautiful Donaghmore beach in North Wexford. ( .donaghmore )

This retreat is suitable for you if:

🔹You have NOT yet completed the 8 week MBSR Course
🔹Are curios about the practice of Mindfulness & meditation and want to know more
🔹Have some mindfulness experience, but want an opportunity to explore the practices further
🔹Have a practice, but find it difficult to commit
🔹Would like some expert guidance and support
🔹Want to practice in the presence of others
🔹Want to take some time out to nurture yourself
🔹Are feeling overwhelmed and stressed and need a day to replenish your energy

This retreat is designed as a day for those, who want to explore what it feels like to immerse yourself in the practice of Mindfulness. It is an opportunity to be guided into silence and practice in the company of others.

Places are Limited, as the group is purposely kept small to enhance your experience / Max 10 people)

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Retreatsireland

30/06/2022

❤️ MINDFUL COMMUNICATION
Wonderful Blog, Packed with great insights. Written by Dr. Rick Hanson... WELL WORTH A READ

Una Keeley
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(MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor)

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