Mindfulness for Life

Join LGBT Health and Wellbeing and mindfulness trainee tachers Diane Lee and Eve Sam for a 8 week mindfulness cognitive therapy coursre for life consisting of eight classes each two hours 15 minutes long.

The course will begin on Thursday 2nd October, and run weekly 6-8.15pm until the 20th November. There will also be a half day of practice on Sunday 26th October 10-3pm.

Our Mindfulness for Life 8-week course (sometimes also called MBCT-L) blends the ancient wisdom of mindfulness with cognitive-behavioural techniques in ways to help you integrate mindfulness into your daily life.

It’s an in-depth, skills-based course created to help you cultivate lasting, sustainable and positive change. It offers approaches to support you with challenges, including recurring patterns of thought and behaviour that can create suffering, and also to help you savour life and flourish.

In this course, you’ll learn:

• To recognise the tendency to be on automatic pilot and how stepping out of it, by bringing mindfulness into our daily lives, can help us to live our lives more fully.
• To notice how often we are lost in our thoughts and feelings and practices which help to recognise this and help us to ‘gather the scattered mind’ and return to the here and now.
• How mindfulness can help us to recognise when we’re caught up in unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, understand them and bring kindness to them.
• Skills for keeping our balance through life’s ups and down and for responding skilfully when difficulties arise, engaging with what is most important to us and opening up to joy, contentment and gratitude.

Schedule

Week I- Waking up fro automatic pilot (Thursday 2nd October)

Week 2- Another way of being:Keeping the body in mind (Thursday 9th October)

Week 3- Gathering the Scattered Mind (Thursday 16th October)

Week 4-Recognising Reactivity(Thursday 23rd October)

Week 5- Allowing & Letting Be (Thursday 30th October)

Week 6- Responding skilfully:thoughts are not facts (Thursday 6th November)

Week 7- How can I best take care of myself (Thursday 13th November)

Week 8- Mindfulness for life/ Beyond the 8 week course (thursday 20th Novemebr)

There will also be a half day of practice on Sunday the 26th Ocober 10-3pm

Who we welcome

All LGBTQ+ people agged 16+ are welcome to join us.

we welcome the entire diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community including non binary, queer, intersex, asexual people and all identities inder the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.

We also welcome people who are questioning/exploring their sexual orientation/gender identity,or who do not use labels either

Registration

Spaces are limited to 10 people.

When registering for this course, you are encouraged to attend all 8 week classes to get the most out of the course. If you are interested in attending, but can only make a few classes, please get in touch with diane@lgbthealth.org.uk to discuss this.

Please use this Eventbrite form to register. Registration is for 1 person only. If you wish to book for someone, please make another registration using their name.

You can also contact the event organiser Diane (she/her) at diane@lgbthealth.org.uk or at 07810 546 658.

If something changes and you can no longer attend the event, please let us know as soon as you can so your space becomes available for someone else. You can cancel your space on Eventbrite or contact Diane.

Once registered for this event Diane will contact you and send you an application form to fill to check this is the right course for you.

Access

The course will be hosted on the video conference app Zoom.

Live captioning will be available during the online meeting.

We will send you the Zoom meeting link once you've returned your application form and we have enrolled you on the course.

You don't need a Zoom account to join a Zoom meetup but you can create one here. If you have a Zoom account, our email reminder will also include the meeting ID which you can use to find the Zoom meeting.

If there is anything you need to talk to us about in advance to help you access the event (including using Zoom), please contact Diane at diane@lgbthealth.org.uk, or phone 0131 564 3970.