Description
Pre-requisites: None
Pre-work: None
Overall aim of course
This event will be delivered face-to-face on campus
Our working minds have many stimulations, concerns and challenges these
days. You may get distracted more easily and find it hard to settle and
focus on what you need to. This workshop will introduce a range of
attention techniques, skills and attitudes to help you take a more
active and compassionate role in managing your attention and achieving
greater mental balance. The techniques can help you to experience life
more directly rather than through the commentary of your thoughts. These
techniques can help us all to be less distracted, step back from
stressors and to look after ourselves.
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
Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.
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