Mindfulness
Courses
Mindfulness-Based Awareness
Bringing Awareness to What's at Hand
The aim of this course is to promote awareness of your mind and body, helping you take better care of yourself and get the most out of living.
My teaching comes from eastern contemplative traditions as well as from modern scientific and psychological studies of the mind and how it works. I offer an eight-week course which is based on the work of the hugely respected teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and Mindfulness For Life (Oxford University). I also draw from my own personal life, the changes that I have made, and from my own journey of practicing mindfulness.
These eight weekly sessions of two-and-a-half hours per week, can be online or face-to-face, with a group, or one-to-one. Together, we explore the transformative power of mindfulness practice both on and off the cushion.
We learn how to connect to a place of awareness that is always there, relating to our thoughts in a different way, which helps us to respond with discerning wisdom, instead of habitual reaction.
Men Behaving Mindfully
For Men Only
Men and mindful meditation don’t always go hand-in-hand. Sometimes it’s a macho thing. Sometimes it’s a feeling of not being able to share personal stuff in a mixed sex group. More often than not, it’s because we as men find it hard enough, in any case, to talk about personal stuff such as feelings and emotions.
Men Behaving Mindfully is Gerry’s attempt to change all of that by creating a safe space for men to practice and share together
For example, we as men, find change so hard to handle and us men (especially those of a certain age) are facing many changes; from the change of growing older to facing job changes and retirement. Others may be facing painful separations or illness; or the illness of a loved one.
The essence of our experience is change – this is a universal truth. Life is change. But we tend to resist it, causing ourselves to suffer. We are impermanent beings, always seeking permanence. Mindfulness practice can help us embrace change and relate to it in a different way.
In this six-week online course (one hour per week via Zoom), we will practice seeing and dealing with change through practices of allowing, leaning into change, and letting go – all infused with being kind to yourself (self-compassion).
Men Behaving Mindfully – the meditation space for men where you can just show up and be yourself.
"CARE"
Self-Compassion Course
Please contact Gerry directly to discuss what programme might benefit you.
Or book a free 30-minute introductory call to have a chat.