Description
Pre-requisites: None
Pre-work: None
Overall aim of course
To introduce mindfulness. What it is, why we need it and how to
practice it. This is offered as a part of Personal Resilience for
Professional Competence programme of workshops
Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have understood the difference between being on auto-pilot and being
mindfully present.
2. Have sampled a number of mindfulness meditation practices.
3. Understand how mindfulness can help to break automatic reactions and
enable us choose our responses.
4. Have some ideas of ways of including mindfulness in everyday working
life.
Indicative content: what the session will cover:
The ability to be present and purposeful can have a positive role in
managing stress and in personal and professional effectiveness.
Participants will be given an experiential introduction to an approach
and a range of techniques to regulate attention and experience life more
directly rather than through the constant commentary of thinking. These
skills can help reduce distraction and improve concentration, build
stress tolerance to achieve your potential and make the most of the
mind. Mindfulness can help you develop your mental flexibility and
creativity, and can help to develop your skills to be present to engage
or disengage appropriately.
Learning and teaching methods: An experiential and interactive workshop.
Tutor: Sally Rose; University of Leeds Staff Counselling service –
Service Manager and Staff Counsellor – Sally is a Registered
Psychotherapist, a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, she is a
Level 3 Mindfulness teacher training with the Centre for Mindfulness
Research and Practice, Bangor University and a published expert
practitioner expert in field of Mindfulness at Work.
Related courses
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.
Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.
• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Understanding grief, loss and setbacks in everyday life
• Switching off – relaxation and sleep
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work
Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.
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