Just Being Center for Mindfulness and Presence

Our Story

Just Being Center for Mindfulness and Presence (Just Being CMP) is committed to Just Being: To inhabit, encourage and facilitate access to an inner space, a stillness, that is always present through the practice of mindfulness, compassion and inquiry. Just Being is an initiative to encourage inhabiting `beingness; and to allow action to emerge from this space. It inquires into what it means to be fully human using awareness, love and wisdom both as the field as well as the tools. Learning, living and serving based on mindfulness, compassion and wisdom is the main offering. Just Being Centre seeks to do so by: •High quality training programs in Mindfulness, Presence, Compassion and Listening for mental health professionals or for those who hold spaces of listening and care. Our two flagship trainings are a one year Diploma in Mindfulness Based Counseling : Listening with Embodied Presence in collaboration with St. Mira’s College, Pune and a two year in-depth and comprehensive course in Presence Oriented Psychotherapy - Integrating Mindfulness, Compassion & Wisdom : A Non-Dual Perspective. Both these part-time courses are attended by people from all India and other countries as well. The trainings are designed by Sandy Dias Andrade, founder-director of Just Being CMP and a Mindfulness and Presence Oriented psychotherapist. She is a Certified Teacher of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from the Center of Mindfulness, University of California, San Diego.

Offering psychotherapy and counselling to individuals and groups using integrated psycho-spiritual practices and principles in mindfulness, compassion and wisdom. We offer regular eight week MBCT programs as well as Mindfulness based Counselling using a number of modalities from talk therapy, expressive arts and Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy (BCST)

•Developing centres of learning and research in the use of awareness, love and wisdom in the field of psychology. We provide opportunities for internships to psychology students and others interested in the application of mindfulness, compassion and wisdom orientations as well as learning circles and online engagement with those interested in developing a true understanding of Mindfulness and Presence from the wisdom traditions and Buddhist Philosophy as well as the psychological domains of experience. We approach it as a non-divisive and integrated way where all aspects are met and honoured from a sense of Presence. Thus we include the philosophical, psychological, spiritual and socio-cultural aspects and hold it in unison. Our approach that is reflective of many others is one that holds the universality of the mind and heart while honoring the individual process. Thus all wisdom traditions are welcomed and inquired into as well as human experiences and expressions of that unifying wisdom.

•Offering opportunities for communities to collectively grow in awareness, love and wisdom through our social projects initiative where we work with social institutions, schools and the corporate sector. We support social organizations in listening, mindfulness and in a lived expression of compassion both for self and other. We have also initiated a new social project `Dying with Grace’ to provide listening spaces to those who are dying as well as their families.

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