The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness

Timeless Teachings for Modern Lives
The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness

Led by Beth Mulligan | Mindful Way

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Professional Training

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Beth Mulligan;
Beth Mulligan, PA-C is a certified MBSR teacher, teacher trainer, and adjunct faculty through the UMASS Center for Mindfulness.

The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness

• 8 Weeks - 22nd January - 12th March 2019
• Tuesdays 7pm-8.30pm GMT / 11 - 12.30 PST
• Fees:   (See at the bottom)
• Workbook
• Guided Practices
• Everywhere
• English
• Access to Sessions Recordings
• Certificate

The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness: Discovering the Buddhist Teachings at the Heart of Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Deeply embedded in the practice of contemporary mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are concepts drawn from the ancient wisdom of meditative traditions. This course uncovers the essential Buddhist teachings at the heart of this powerful practices, enabling you to deepen your historical and spiritual understanding of Mindfulness, MBSR and nourish your practice.

Advance Praise for The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness:

Written with disarming candor and clarity, this book takes the reader on an intimate journey through mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), the gold standard of mindfulness training. The author seamlessly reveals both the compassionate heart of MBSR and core teachings from Buddhist psychology that underlie the program. If you want to understand mindfulness training more deeply than ever, this wise and generous book should not be missed!”
- Christopher Germer, PhD, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Highly recommended!

- Kristin Neff, PhD, associate professor in the department of educational psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, and author of Self-Compassion

This book has the power to transform our individual and collective lives.

- Shauna Shapiro, PhD, professor at Santa Clara University, author, speaker, and mindfulness consultant

What a gem of a book!

This is a must-read for all MBSR and mindfulness-based intervention teachers, and anybody else curious about how the Buddhist teachings are informing modern mindfulness.
- Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD, certified MBSR teacher, adjunct faculty of the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, director of MBSR programs and senior teacher at InsightLA, vipassana and mindful self-compassion (MSC) teacher, and coauthor of A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness

This beautifully structured, wise, and compassionate book

takes us behind the scenes of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) class for an insider’s view. Beth then offers in-depth teachings from the Buddhist tradition that underlie MBSR. Most importantly, Beth’s years of personal meditation practice and teaching shine through; the writing is infused with both theory and a deep experiential knowing. It is sure to be a seminal work for students and teachers of mindfulness alike. - Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, and coauthor of Fully Present

How It Works

Teachings

8 weekly online live 90m meeting sessions. You’ll gain a rich set of resources to support your engagement with the course and for your personal use later all from the comfort of your own home. Lifetime access to the program allows you to establish an expert level of understanding and PRACTICE, at your own pace.

Practice

You’ll take what you’ve learned in the Teachings and put it into practice. With effective exercises from the instructor, the principles are presented in such a way that they can be applied to your day-to-day.

Practice

Group dialogue and discussions aimed at enhancing awareness in everyday life, individually tailored instruction, daily home assignments, downloadable home practice audiofiles and a home practice workbook.

Private Group

Beth will create a safe and supportive environment. Buddhist Underpinnings of Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Guided instructions in mindfulness meditation practices, gentle stretching and mindful yoga, group dialogue and discussions aimed at enhancing awareness in everyday life, individually tailored instruction, daily home assignments, downloadable home practice audiofiles and a home practice workbook.

8 Sessions Abstract

Session 1 - Orientation & The Dharma of Suffering: It’s Not Personal

Orientation and welcome. Meet your classmates, instructor, and review logistics and expectations for the course. Introduction Mindfulness and the Awareness of Breathing meditation practice.

Session 2 - The Dharma of the Body: What We Resist Persists

The First Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Body. The instructions on the First Foundation of Mindfulness in and of the body go on to invite awareness of postures—sitting, standing, walking, and lying down—as well as a reflection on what the body is made up

Session 3 - The Dharma of Curiosity: What Is Here Right Now?

The way we bring curiosity through our practice may begin to create some spaciousness in our perceptions of our lives, and in our moment-to-moment experience as well.

Session 4 - The Dharma of Awareness: Turning Toward Stress

Stressful things are part and parcel of life itself. It is how we handle these things that makes a difference to the impact they have on our lives. Becoming more aware of the thoughts, feelings and body sensations evoked by events gives us the possibility of freeing ourselves from habitual, automatic, ways of reacting, so we can respond in more skillful ways.

Session 5 - The Dharma of Choice: Finding a Bigger Container

By examining the factors of the Eightfold Path, we are bringing awareness to more and more areas of our lives and have the opportunity to see things from a different and perhaps wider perspective. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, which is Mindfulness of Dharmas, invites us to bring curiosity and kind attention to everything that may offer us a teaching.

Session 6 - The Dharma of Our Speech: The Lessons of Relationship and Community

Relationships can bring us the most joy and richness as well as intense suffering. On this session we’re bringing more awareness to what is already operating in our lives with other people—the not-so-helpful habitual ways of relating, as well as the ones that are working for us.

Session 7 - The Dharma of the Daylong Retreat: Exploring Our Hindrances as Teachings

Being in the Quiet—What It Teaches Us | The Five Hindrances—or Are They Guides? | Making a Friend of Restlessness—How We Work with Worry | Seeing Is the Doorway in the Wall | “Ride the Wave of the Crave”—Working with Craving and Desire | Name It to Tame It: Working with Anger | Bobbing Heads and Tilting Bodies: Working with Torpor | Maybe I Should Try Belly Dancing: Working with Doubt | Our Participant Buddhas Touch the Earth | The Three Characteristics of Existence: Impermanence, Suffering, and Non-Self.

Session 8 - The Dharma of Action and Livelihood: Working with Our Ethical Compass

In this session we’re shining the light on the “external” contemplation. This, of course, cannot be truly separated from what is going on internally, but we’ll simply focus on the external aspect a bit more here.

Highly participatory

supportive and structured, the this Program will provide you with:

• Buddhist Underpinnings of Mindfulness-Based Interventions
• Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices;
• Group dialogue and mindful communication exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life;
• Individually tailored instructions;
• (Home) assignments;
• Guided meditations, Workbook and Handouts.
• The program is challenging and life-affirming.
• Participating in this Program requires an ongoing commitment to yourself.
• After the Online course participants are encouraged to practice at home, folowing the workbook and by listening to guided meditations at home – this way you learn, practice and integrate the teachings and mindfulness practice into your everyday life.

Course Schedule

January 22nd to March 12nd
Tuesday | 07.00pm - 08.30pm GMT (London Time)

January

Session 1 | 22nd

Session 2 | 29th

February

Session 3 | 5th

Session 4 | 12nd

Session 5 | 19th

Session 6 | 26th

March

Session 7 | 5th

Session 8 | 12th

In Detail + FAQ

• What is the Dharma of Modern Mindfulness Course?
  
  
  

  Deeply embedded in the practice of contemporary Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) are concepts drawn from the ancient wisdom of meditative traditions. The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness uncovers the essential Buddhist teachings at the heart of these powerful mindfulness programs, enabling you to deepen your historical and spiritual understanding of MBI and nourish your practice.
  
  Meditation and mindfulness are everywhere: in hospitals, clinics, and schools; in major medical, psychological, and scientific journals; on TV; and in popular publications—even on the cover of Time magazine. And thankfully so—since Jon Kabat-Zinn developed MBSR, a treatment blending meditation and yoga, it has been proven effective in treating conditions like chronic pain, stress, anxiety, and depression for sufferers around the world. Lesser known, however, are the deep philosophical roots of MBSR known as the Buddhist dharma, translated as “the teachings of the Buddha.” Although they form the very foundation underlying MBSR and other mindfulness-based interventions, they often remain hidden within modern mindfulness practices.
  
  The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness illuminates these cornerstones, communicating previously esoteric teachings with language that makes them easily accessible and applicable to your complex daily life. The book follows the structure of an eight-week class, paralleling the participant’s journey with that of the Buddha for the alleviation of suffering. With real-life examples, guided reflections, and practices throughout, this course will show you the connections between the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and contemporary MBI.
  
  This format addresses the needs of those interested in the Course, regardless the place you live. The entire course is delivered live through video conferencing, will be recorded and sent to the participants. Rather than meeting in-person, participants engage with the teacher and interact with one another through their computer during class time, private group, home assignments and practice.

  
  
  
  
• Technology Requirements
  
  
  

  To ensure the best possible experience for all participants, the program relies on video conferencing which has minimum requirements to work properly. That includes having a computer with speakers, microphone, and video capabilities, and a high-speed internet connection.
  
  For the best learning experience:

  1. Review the system requirements for the Zoom online meeting platform
  2. Try out a test meeting
  3. Test your audio and video in the meeting
  4. Watch the video tutorial, "Joining a Meeting with Zoom," below:

  
  
  
  
• Who Can Benefit
  
  
  

  
  Regardless of your background, status, or education, and whether you’re a practitioner, teacher, or trainer, this invitation to explore the essential Buddhist teachings at the heart of modern mindfulness—such as the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, and the four brahmaviharas: loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity—will expand your understanding and enhance your practice, and, in doing so, connect you with your inner wisdom and deepest humanity.

  This course is for peo­ple who:

  • feel stressed by their jobs or pri­vate sit­u­a­tion or who feel burned out;
  • are liv­ing with an acute or chronic dis­ease;
  • are suf­fer­ing from chronic pain;
  • have psy­cho­so­matic symp­toms (prob­lems with sleep, diges­tion…);
  • expe­ri­ence feel­ings of anx­i­ety or depres­sion…

  
  and who

  • want to learn how to work with this sit­u­a­tion;
  • want to fos­ter their sense of health and well­be­ing;
  • are seek­ing a com­ple­men­tary treat­ment to med­ical or psy­chother­a­peu­tic treat­ment;
  • want to live with more aware­ness;
  • want to learn ways of self-exploration and self-care.

  
  
  Each participant gets:

  • High Standards;
  • Workbook;
  • Guided meditations in MP3 format with ;
  • Recorded Sessions (in case you miss a session);
  • Certificate.

  
  
  
  
• Notes
  
  
  

  Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocol is a meditation “therapy”, though originally designed for stress management, it is being used for treating a variety of illnesses such as:

  • It’s necessary to fill the application form;
  • The course takes place with a minimum and maximum of participants in a small group;
  • Upon submission of your registration you will receive an email with additional information;
  • The program is subject to minor changes.

  
  
  

  Cancellation Policy

  • A refund (minus your non-refundable and non-transferable deposit) will be made for cancellations submitted in writing 30 days prior to the training. No refunds will be allowed after that date;
  • In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, SPM-BE | Mindful Way are responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee;

  
  
  

  Having problems

  If you have difficulties in the application form, please, open this page in a different browser, such as Firefox or Chrome or contact to eventos.spmbe(at)gmail.com
  
  
  

  CONFIDENTIALITY

  SPM-BE – MI | Mindful Way guarantees the confidentiality of personal data provided and their treatment in accordance with current legislation on data protection.
  
  

  
  
  
  

Beth Mulligan

Beth Mulligan, PA-C is a certified MBSR teacher, teacher trainer, and adjunct faculty through the UMASS Center for Mindfulness. She has been teaching MBSR for over a decade to diverse populations; from the critically ill, to non-profit organizations, the underserved, educators, and corporate leaders. She currently teaches at the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at UCI and Insight LA. Beth teaches the 10-week and nine-day practicum for teachers in training nationally and internationally. Beth is a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and teacher trainer and does international training for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.
Beth has a background in primary care medicine as a Board Certified Physician Assistant having graduated Magna cum Laude from Duke University and has practiced medicine for over thirty years. She is a long time student of Charles Tenshin Fletcher, Roshi at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center where she has lived in residence. Beth is the Guiding Dharma teacher at Insight Community of the Desert and is a certified yoga instructor.

Beth is the Author of The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness, New Harbinger Publications

+ Informations about Beth: Mindful Way

The Dharma of Modern Mindfulness (Online Live)

(Fees + Registration)

€30 / $35 'Early-Bird Discount' if you register and pay in full on or before 09th December 2018	On or Before 09th December 2018	After 09th December 2018
Registration	€110 / $126	€140 / $160

• Fees shown above are in € Euros and $ American Dollars.
• Upon submission of your registration your application will be reviewed for prerequisites and you will be contacted when it has been formally accepted.

 

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Mindfulness Methods and Medicine

There are some unique features about the way the Buddha offered his teachings. For instance, he did not offer a particular doctrine or dogma, but rather asked people to accept a teaching “only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others.” In Modern Mindfulness, teachers approach the class similarly. We offer practices in a safe environment, practices which allow participants to access their own inner wisdom. There is very little written material, very little reading, and most of the homework and the class time are spent engaging in meditative practices and then reflecting on what has come up in those practices. We learn together.