6 week course
Dates: Mondays, January 20 - February 24, 2025
Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Where: Friends Meeting House
701 W. Howard Road
Decatur, GA 30030
Cost: 400.00
* I intend for this class to be available to all interested people. If the tuition is not affordable, please reach out to discuss this.
MIndfulness:
A Pathway to A More Peaceful LIfe
In a chaotic and fast-paced world, finding moments of peace can seem elusive. This class explores mindfulness as a practical and transformative tool for cultivating inner calm, clarity, and resilience.
Through guided meditation, reflective exercises, and group discussion, participants will learn to:
Develop awareness of the present moment
Respond to stress with greater ease and compassion
Cultivate habits that support emotional well-being
Sustain a daily meditation practice
Whether new to mindfulness or looking to deepen your practice, this course offers a welcoming space to explore how mindfulness can bring more peace and balance to your daily life.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to the practice of mindfulness
What mindfulness is and is not
Carving out space in your life
Setting a daily intention
Formal and informal practice
What neuroscience tells us about mindfulness
Getting to know the inner critic and learning to make peace with it
Formal practice: Focused awareness
Informal Practice: Bringing mindfulness to daily life activities
Week 2
Mindfulness of the body
Re-awakening the mind-body connection
Learning the body scan
Practicing mindful eating
Taking a mindful walk
Formal home practice: Body scan
Informal home practice: mindful eating and mindful walking
Week 3
Mindfulness of the mind
Making the turn from looking outward to looking inward
Learning to observe mental activity
Getting to know the stories we tell ourselves
Formal practice: Mindfulness of the mind
Week 4
Mindfulness of experience
Understanding how experience happens
The role of feeling in experience
How craving and aversion in experience leads to suffering
Formal practice: Choiceless Awareness
Week 5
Opening the heart through lovingkindness practice
What is lovingkindness practice
How open-heartedness leads to greater peace
Two practices of radiating and repetition of phrases
Formal practice: Lovingkindness meditation
Week 6
Closing class
Check-in
Review
Next steps
Practicing together