Ancient Mindfulness - Online Course for Stress and Anxiety Reduction

This programme by Ancient Mindfulness aims to expand your consciousness and develop your self-awareness.

This 5 week course is designed to help reduce stress and anxiety, build strength, increase awareness, improve sleep, improve focus and help participants find a more mindful way of processing thoughts in daily life.

This online workshop is designed to offer clear guidance for practising mindfulness and integrating it into our lives. The educational side of the program helps participants develop a strong understanding of mindfulness and experience the many benefits of becoming more mindful.

Each group session will be interactive and engaging, including a mixture of guided meditations, group discussions and practical exercises designed to build and improve different skills.

Mindfulness is a way of living life with reduced stress and anxiety, as well as, increased awareness and control.

Ancient Mindfulness includes:

5 Twice a week Online Group Sessions 6pm to 8pm on Mondays and Tuesday

Weekly homework

2 one hour online consultations to be arranged with Kirk

Email support during the course

Self-study exercises

What you will learn from Ancient Mindfulness:

• An introduction to mindfulness: the theories, tools, exercises and skills
• How to apply mindfulness to daily life
• Exercises to develop our understanding of ourselves and others
• How to cultivate happiness and self-compassion

Topics and skills include:

• Radical Acceptance
• Core Mindfulness
• Deep Listening
• Quality of Awareness
• The WHAT skills
• The HOW skills
• The 3 Mind sets

Exercises include:

• Negative judgement record
• Beginner's mind record
• Focussing exercise
• Describe your emotion
• List of actions and experiences

Course Leader

My name is Kirk Young. I am an Mental Health Practitioner and independent Mindfulness Coach. Mindfulness skills and exercises have helped me manage my workload as I work full-time and study part-time in the busy city of London. I aim to share my knowledge of how Ancient Mindfulness can improve our emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and relationships in our personal lives and in the workplace.

Dates/Time:

We will meet virtually via Zoom on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6pm to 8pm for 5 weeks. This is a UK based event, if you are joining from outside the UK you may want to double check the time with the course leader or use a time zone converter.

Location:

Virtually via Zoom

Ancient Mindfulness by Kirk is open to all levels of experience and is suitable for anyone who wants to develop their understanding of how to reduce stress and anxiety. The exercises practised in this course are designed to develop the skills required to become more mindful in daily life.

Commitment:

To get the most out of this program it is recommended that you commit to attending all 10 sessions because to integrate mindfulness practice into daily life requires regular exercise of mindfulness skills.

If you have to miss a class please let the course leader know and course materials/email support will be provided to you so you can understand the content of the missed session.

Please note, you will be required to use a laptop/computer, tablet, phone or device with internet access, and will need a functioning camera and mic.

Testimonials:

"I found the mindfulness course incredibly helpful and very calming. Kirk showed us lots of different techniques and so I've found ones that work for me and been able to easily add them into my life. I already feel a difference especially in my awareness of behaviours that are more helpful and less helpful to me. It's an ongoing journey of self-awareness but I feel I have a much better understanding than I did before I began. Thank you so much Kirk,"

"I am really looking forward to this course, doing this type of work is really helpful"

"It was a pleasure to have you as our teacher. Thank you for your patience and kindness throughout the course."

"thank u lot of respect for all passion and professional way u did the course see u in October for next one."

"Many thanks for your help, guidance and support, I am really happy you were my tutor! I really appreciate your tutor feedback on the form since you have given me a realistic advice. "