Mindfulness...
Is the practice of cultivating non-judgmental awareness in day-to-day life. It develops the potential to experience each moment, no matter how difficult or intense, with greater serenity and clarity.

Mindfulness meditation can help one feel better, sleep better, and increase ability to cope with stressful situations, improve self-esteem and renew enthusiasm for life and work. One can feel more alive, joyful and gain immediate access to powerful inner resources for improving health and healing.

What is the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program?

The eight-week MBSR program is modeled after the Stress Reduction Program pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and colleagues in 1979, at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

in 1993 Bill Moyers featured Jon Kabat-Zinn's Stress Reduction Clinic and his book Full Catastrophe Living in the PBS series Healing and the Mind. The program has also been featured on NBC's Dateline, ABC's Chronicle and various national print media.

The MBSR pgoram is currenly taught in medical, educational, business and community settings throughout the world.

Program benefits include:

• Developing the potential to be fully present in each moment.

• An ability to cope and respond more effectively with both short- and long-term stressful situations.

• Methods for physical and mental relaxation.

• Becoming increasingly aware of the interplay of mind and body in health and illness.

• Developing your ability to help yourself move towards greater balance, control, and peace of mind.

• Reductions in pain levels and an enhanced ability to cope with pain that may not go away.

• Improved self-esteem.

• Greater energy and enthusiasm for life.

• Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms.

What you will learn:

Participants will learn life-long tools to help maximize life, even in the midst of stress, pain and illness. The MBSR Program has helped hundreds of participants improve their ability to live and cope with daily stresses, stress related conditions, and chronic pain and illness. By learning to actively participate in the management of personal health and well-being, many participants report they are better able to manage stress, fear, anger, anxiety, and depression both at home and in their workplace. Participants have stated that they feel less judgmental and critical of themselves and subsequently of others. Many also report a decrease of the frequency and length of medical visits to hospitals, emergency rooms, and health care professsional offices.

About the instructor:

Barbara Wulf  received her professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusettts Medical Center's Center for Mindfulness. She teaches in the Twin Cities' business and non-profit communities and at the University of St. Thomas. She has also facilitated classes at the University of Minnesota. Barbara has been practicing mindfulness since 1998.