flannellyjoan@gmail.com | 087 2210380
Courses
Monthly Saturday Practice Sessions
Online 10am-1pm
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We live in a hectic world that makes constant demands on our time and energy. Our monthly practice sessions are an opportunity to drop out of this state of doing and move into a place of being.
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Each session is a mini retreat that takes inspiration from the seasons and life as it is happening around us.
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Each session will be spent in meditation with space for sharing in community and connecting with others on this path of peace.
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​The session's are suitable for long term practitioners who wish to sustain practice and for newcomers who are getting started on the path.
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"Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself or redeem yourself. Rather do it as an act of love, of deep, warm friendship with yourself." Bob Sharples
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Each month may be booked individually.
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The session's are online from 10am to 1pm and you will receive recording's of the practices. The session's cost 30.00 per month.
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Saturday September 20th
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The Compassion Based Living Course (CBLC) is a weekly mindfulness course and a lower intensity version of the lengthier Responding with Compassion.
It is an eight-week course consisting of eight classes, which are typically two hours long, and is a course that draws on insights and practices from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and Mahayana Buddhism. The course ends with an optional retreat day. This course will be held completely online.
This experiential course starts with building self-compassion into basic mindfulness practice. Through compassionate imagery and mindful self-compassion, we cultivate positive emotions as a way of building up an inner resource, from which we can approach the difficulties that are part and parcel of being alive. We then approach the self-critic: that persistent inner voice that is harsh and condemning, and always finding fault in what we do. What it would be like to cultivate an inner voice that is kind and supportive, and to live life from this place, rather than from a place of destructive self-criticism?
During the journey, we move from self-compassion towards compassion for others, exploring practices which help us find balance and perspective beyond our narrow preferences, generating love and friendliness to our inner and outer worlds, responding appropriately to pain and suffering while also appreciating the good things in our lives, integrating compassion into all that we do. As there is a strong emphasis on the experiential nature of the course, there are home practice suggestions between the sessions that include regular compassion practice and daily life exercises.
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The weekly themes are:
· Session 1 – The Compassionate Mess
· Session 2 – It’s not our fault: an evolutionary perspective
· Session 3 – Creating conditions of safeness
· Session 4 – Compassionate being
· Session 5 – The Mandala of Compassion
· Session 6 – Befriending the Self-Critic
· Session 7 – The Four Immeasurable Qualities
· Session 8 – Compassion for Others
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This 8 week Mindfulness Course is the Mindfulness Association's flagship course and has been taught widely throughout the UK and Europe. It richly combines experiential development of mindfulness and compassion. In simple terms, the course teaches how we can navigate in a more skillful way through what is an increasingly uncertain, distracted and turbulent world. As life around us becomes ever more challenging, it is vital to learn ways in which we can calm and steady ourselves. The course is based on the Mindfulness Association's one year training in Mindfulness. It is an 8 week course consisting of 8 classes which are 2 hours in duration. An optional practice day will be offered between weeks 6 and 7 and a follow up session will be offered 3 months after the course has been completed. Weekly themes are : Week 1 : Start Where We Are Week 2 : The Body as a Place to Stay Present Week 3 : Introducing Mindfulness Support Week 4 : Working with Distraction Week 5 : Exploring the Undercurrent Week 6 : Attitude of the Observer Week 7 : Self-Acceptance Week 8 : A Mindfulness Based Life The course is suitable for everyone - whether you are new to mindfulness or would like to deepen an existing practice. It provides a solid foundation for a life rooted in mindfulness and compassion. The course cost is 200.00 and that includes a manual, an app with all of the meditation practices, a practice day and a follow up session. There are pay what you can places available and the course fee can be paid in installments. Places are limited to 12 participants. To reserve a place, please send a pm or post a comment here. The course is being delivered by a fully certified, insured teacher and a member of the Mindfulness Association. The course will be run in person in Castlebar beginning Tuesday, 7th October at 7.30pm. For further information, please contact Joan on 087 2210380 or by email at flannellyjoan@gmail.com.