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The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction® program – MBSR®
MBSR® qualified teacher – Rossana Magalhaes, MS. Eds, LPC, NCC
Koru Mindfulness® Certified Teacher
New groups in Greensboro, NC
January 2020 – On Wednesdays at 9:00-11:30 am.
Click here and reserve your place at the MBSR orientation session.
Orientation session – Winter Group:
January 6th, Monday, at 9:00 am. Eastern Time Zone (EST)
Online orientation: Thursday, January 2nd. – Registration with Rossana by phone only: 336-543-6624
Registration is also available at this Eventbrite
All participants must attend the in-person or online orientation session prior to attending the MBSR class.
If, for any reason, you can not come to the orientation, please, contact Rossana at 336-543-6624 before the orientation day.
Click here and reserve your place at the mandatory MBSR orientation session.
Location:
415 N Edgeworth – Suites 101 & 110
Greensboro NC 27401
United States
THE PROGRAM:
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues and it is taught all over the world.
With this 8-week, 9 classes program you will experience powerful practices such as the body scan, mindful movement, loving-kindness meditation, sitting meditation, and walking meditation.
You will emerge yourself on the application of the MBSR practices in your daily life, including stress reduction, increased awareness, self-reflection, self-care, and self-esteem. The MBSR program supports health, healing, spiritual enrichment, and personal growth.
The MBSR 8-week program is the first mandatory step on the certification path to becoming an MBSR teacher. If you attend all 9 sessions, you will get a certificate that will entitle you to start your journey to become an MBSR teacher, in case that is your wish.
Days and times:
Class 1: Wednesday, January 8th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (The first and last classes are longer)
Class 2: Wednesday, January 15th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Class 3: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Class 4: Wednesday, January 29th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Class 5: Wednesday, February 5th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
ALL DAY CLASS: Saturday, February 8th – SATURDAY – 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
Class 6: Wednesday, February 12th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Class 7: FRIDAY, February 14th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 11:30 am
Class 8: Wednesday, February 14th, 2019 – 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (The last and first classes are longer)
COST:
The cost for all 9 classes, including a full Day of Mindfulness is U$380.
You have a 10% discount (Pay $342) if you pay by December 10th. The payment can be made by check to Rossana Counseling and sent to 415 N. Edgeworth St., suites 101 & 110. You can also call Rossana at 336-543-6624 for payment over the phone using any credit card.
If you would like to take advantage of the discount, please send a check to Rossana Magalhaes, 415 N Edgeworth – Suites 101 & 110, Greensboro NC 27401.
The payment is fully refundable (minus $10 administrative costs) if you decide not to participate in this training and let Rossana know by December 15th, 2019.
At the orientation session, we will accept credit card, check, and cash.
If needed, I could also offer payment plans. Email: contact@rossanacounseling.com
(There is one 50% scholarship available to anyone who really wants to do the course but does not have the financial means right now. If you think this is your situation, please email me explaining why you want to be considered for the scholarship. (contact@rossanacounseling.com)
If $380 is difficult for you, please consider the class anyway. We ask that you decide what amount you can contribute as a commitment and investment in your own process as well as helping to support the financial health of the class.
No one will be turned away for financial reasons. For more information on a payment plan option, please contact the teacher at contact@rossanacounseling.com.
Rossana’s Website: https://rossanacounseling.com/services/mindfulness-based-interventions/
CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE INFORMATION
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction® (MBSR®) is an 8-week program created by the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts. The program was founded in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Click here and reserve your place at the mandatory MBSR orientation session.
Logistic of the group:
- The group meets every week for 8 weeks. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all classes.
- There will be a Full Day of Class on a Saturday. More information will be given at the orientation session.
- Participants will learn about stress and its influences in physical, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns, as well as how to incorporate mindful ways to communicate and respond to life’s stressors.
- Some benefits from the MBSR program include:
- Improved self-care and self-awareness
- Increased sense of balance, well-being, and peace
- Enhanced coping mechanisms
- Learn more about the benefits and logistics of the group at our next orientation session. Please, click here to reserve your place at the next orientation. HERE
Jon Kabat-Zinn Defines Mindfulness
Watch Here:
Rossana Magalhaes has been teaching MBSR groups since 2016. She is qualified to teach the MBSR by the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. She attended the MBSR Teacher Development Intensive in August 2016 and the Nine-Day Intensive Practicum in MBSR in January 2016. Rossana has been practicing mindfulness meditation for more than 15 years.
Jon Kabat–Zinn says that “When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. Mindfulness is about love and loving life. All the suffering, stress, and addiction come from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. In Asian languages, the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are the same.”
Click here and reserve your place at the MBSR orientation session.
MBSR Course Outline
ORIENTATION
This introductory session will acquaint you with the practice of mindfulness as taught at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. You will learn how this scientific, evidence-based practice has become an accepted part of mainstream medicine, and discover how it can positively affect the quality of your everyday life.
WEEK 1
Participants will receive an overview of the course and establish the learning context for the rest of the experience in the training. Participants will be experientially introduced to mindful eating, mindful breathing, and the body-scan method, with a special emphasis on what it means to be fully engaged in the present moment.
WEEK 2
Perception is key in mindfulness—how participants see things (or don’t see them) will determine in a large part how to respond. This session will ask participants to examine perceptions, assumptions, and the way he/she views the world. Participants will learn to use the body-scan practice to cultivate a greater degree of awareness of how they react to stressful situations. Changing the way one perceives and responds to difficulties and challenges will impact the short- and long-term effects of stress on one’s mind and body.
WEEK 3
In this session, participants will practice several distinct yet interrelated mindfulness practices—mindful yoga, sitting meditation, and walking meditation. This is an ideal time to share insights about experiences with formal practice and integrating mindfulness into daily life. Participants will discover that there is both pleasure and power in being present, and will directly attend to and investigate how experiences create such reactions as pleasure or discomfort in the mind and body.
WEEK 4
By practicing mindfulness, we cultivate curiosity and openness to the full range of our experience, and through this process, our ability to pay attention becomes more flexible. This week, practice will focus on the development of the ability to concentrate and systematically expand your field of awareness. Participants will learn about the physiological and psychological bases of stress reactivity, and experience mindful strategies for responding in positive, proactive ways to stressful situations.
WEEK 5
At the halfway point in this course, participants will now be familiar with the foundations of mindfulness and able to focus on applying it more rapidly and effectively to specific challenges and stressors in life. This week will begin by paying attention to the places where one might be stuck in repeating unhealthy patterns that can disarm through mindful awareness. Participants will also learn how to apply mindfulness at the critical moment when he/she experiences a physical sensation, intense emotion, or condition, with special attention to exploring the effect of reactivity in health and illness.
WEEK 6
Resilience or “stress hardiness” is our ability to return to equilibrium after stressful situations. This week, participants will focus on transformational coping strategies to broaden inner resources and enhance resilience through mindfulness practice. Participants will also learn the fundamentals of interpersonal mindfulness—applying awareness and presence at times when communication becomes difficult or fraught with strong emotions. Participants will gain direct experience of a variety of styles for more effective and creative interpersonal communication.
ALL-DAY RETREAT
This day-long guided retreat will take place between weeks six and seven. The intensive nature of this session is intended to assist participants in firmly and effectively establishing the use of MBSR skills across multiple situations in your life, while simultaneously preparing to utilize these methods far beyond the conclusion of the program.
WEEK 7
Mindfulness is most effective when it is a lifetime commitment. This week, participants will explore the many ways that one can integrate mindfulness more fully and personally into life. While having a dedicated regular practice for mindfulness meditation is important and beneficial, it is just as important to bring a broader sense of awareness and presence to every moment in life and to use non-judgmental mindfulness in self-reflection and decision-making processes. Participants will learn how to maintain the discipline and flexibility of daily practice as circumstances change over the course of your life.
WEEK 8
In the final week of the program, participants will have a complete review of everything you’ve learned over the course, with an emphasis on carrying the momentum forward into the coming months and years. Participants will learn about resources available to pursue mindfulness in new directions as life and practice evolve, as well as the support systems that exist to help continue to integrate, learn, and grow. The final lesson creates a satisfying closure by honoring both the end of this program and the beginning of the rest of one’s life.
Click here and reserve your place at the MBSR orientation session.
COST:
The cost for all 9 classes, including a full Day of Mindfulness is U$380, 00.
You have a 10% discount (Pay $342) if you pay by April 20th. The payment can be made by check to Rossana Counseling and sent to 415 N. Edgeworth St., suites 101 & 110. You can also call Rossana at 336-543-6624 for payment over the phone using any credit card.
If you would like to take advantage of the discount, please send a check to Rossana Magalhaes, 415 N Edgeworth – Suites 101 & 110, Greensboro NC 27401.
The payment is fully refundable (minus $10 administrative costs) if you decide not to participate in this training and let Rossana know by May 1st, 2019.
Click here and reserve your place at the MBSR orientation session.
Resolution of program participant complaints:
In the case you are not satisfied with my services, please let me know immediately so that we might work together to resolve the issue. If I am unable to resolve your complaints I will refund the amount you paid minus the cost of the classes you have already taken. If you do not feel that your concern was addressed accordingly you could file a complaint against me with the organization below, in the case that you feel I am in violation of any of terms of the ACA Code of Ethics.
(www.counseling.org/Resources/aca-code-of-ethics.pdf).
North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors
P.O. Box 77819
Greensboro, NC 27417
Phone: 844-622-3572 or 336-217-6007
Fax: 336-217-9450
E-mail: Complaints@ncblpc.org
