About the mindfulness course
Many people feel at home on the meditation cushion after some practice, but find it challenging to stay mindful when interacting with others. Why is this so? And more importantly, what can we do about it? These questions lie at the heart of the evidence based Deepening Mindfulness & Mindful Communication (DMMC) course. After all, the quality of our relationships is as important to our well-being as our individual mindfulness practice.
This course equips you with practical tools to communicate mindfully and authentically. You explore, improve and deepen your relationship with yourself and others. The course is based on an integral view of humanity, where mind, body, and interactions with others are inseparable.
Programme
Deepening and broadening mindfulness skills
Communicating Mindfully
Increasing body awareness
Strengthening of the sedation system
The course consists of six sessions and an (optional) practice day. Between meetings you will practise at home and apply mindfulness in everyday life.
Participants give the course an average rating of 8.7!
Integrating mindfulness into daily life, beyond the meditation cushion, into relationships with ourselves and others.
In 6 meetings, topics covered include
Meditation exercises
- Tranquillity Meditation: Develop calmness and concentration as the foundation for clarity, wisdom and creativity
- Kindness Meditation: Cultivate greater kindness toward yourself and those around you
- Mindfulness meditation with feeling tone: Deepen your awareness and enhance your insight
- Contemplation on values: Learning to live more fully with and from your values
- Body Awareness Meditation: Increase your body awareness
Psychoeducation and other exercises
- Understanding how the brain works: Learn how the brain and stress affect our relationships
- Needs: Discover the importance of needs and how to recognize and fulfil them, including in contact with others
- Emotion regulation and motivation systems: Explore the three systems that regulate emotions and drive behaviour
- Autonomic nervous system: Understand its role in stress and overall well-being
Communicating Mindfully
- Experiential mindful communication: Explore your own role and moods in contact
- Mindful presence and attentive listening: Practise being fully present and attentive listening to yourself and others
- Mindful Speaking: Develop skills to speak more mindfully and deepen and, where appropriate, improve relationships
- Responding Mindfully in Conflict: Learn to respond in a connected and constructive way in conflict situations
Body-oriented exercises
- Yin yoga: Increase body awareness and flexibility while relieve tension
- Yoga Nidra: Experience deep relaxation and recovery through guided meditation that calms the body and mind, potentially leading to new insights
- Meditation and communication exercises: Recognise the essential role of the body in all meditation and communication practices
The DMMC programme is secular in approach and scientifically grounded. A two-year study involving participants participated shows significant improvements. Y For more detailsabout this study and other relevant mindfulness studies on our science page. Read more.
For whom
The DMMC course is a continuation of the eight-week mindfulness course (MBSR/MBCT). People who have been introduced to meditation or yoga through other paths are also welcome. If you are a mindfulness teacher, psychologist, coach or work with people in another way, you can enroll directly in the teacher training. Read more.
Practical
The course consists of six sessions of 2.5 hours, plus one (optional) practice day. It includes a workbook, audio files, a telephone intake, and all necessary course materials. Check below for training courses near you, start dates, and rates.