The ever-increasing pace of work in the 21st century means it’s easy to feel that you can’t keep up, even when you’re working flat-out. This seminar makes mindfulness available to all, teaching simple meditation techniques that will help you to manage your stress levels, improve productivity and enjoy life more.
A panel of speakers cover the theory and practice of mindfulness, teaching high-impact meditation techniques that can be easily integrated into your daily routine. The day includes discussions on the roots of mindfulness, and how this classical philosophy can have real and permanent benefits for your life and work.
During the course, Professor Willem Kuyken, clinical psychologist and director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre at Oxford University, delivers an introduction to the field, explaining what mindfulness is and how it can have a positive impact on your brain. Doctor and mindfulness coach Barbara Mariposa discusses how you can use mindfulness techniques to increase emotional intelligence, as well as how to manage digital overload. In addition, author Rohan Gunatillake talks about making mindfulness part of our digital lives, and Michael Chaskalson, one of the UK’s leading mindfulness trainers and academic lecturers, will share his extensive knowledge of neuroscience and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), while giving practical tips on how to apply mindfulness in the workplace. Whether you’re based in a high-octane office, work as a freelance, or want advice on how to fulfil your potential, this course will enable you to feel the benefits of reducing stress, allowing you to get on with the rest of your life.
This course is for you if...
- You want to learn the basics of mindfulness, and in particular how it can be used to reduce work-related stress
- You run your own business and want to make it less stressful, for yourself and your staff
- You’re a freelancer or creative who wants to procrastinate less and be more productive
- You struggle with work-related stress, and are looking for simple, effective solutions
Course description
This large-scale seminar covers the basics of mindfulness, with theoretical and practical perspectives from a panel of professionals. It focuses on how the philosophy can be integrated into your daily, working routine, as well as how you can use mindfulness to lead a more fulfilling life. Topics covered on the day include:
- Understanding the basic principles of mindfulness
- Simple exercises to help you focus on being in the present
- How mindfulness can help you get more done, in less time
- How to use mindfulness to cope with work-related stress
- Mindfulness-based self-care
- How to improve your reactions to stress when at work
- The relationship between calm and creativity
- How to use mindfulness to get the most out of life – and enjoy yourself more
- How to use mindfulness to increase emotional intelligence
- Advice on ‘digital detoxing’ and managing digital overload
- Q&A with each speaker
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Tutor profiles
Professor Willem Kuyken is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. His research work and teaching on mood disorders focuses primarily on mindfulness-based approaches and compassion. Willem holds a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Salomon’s Clinical Psychology Training Programme. From 1999 to 2014 he worked at the University of Exeter, where he headed up the doctoral clinical psychology training programme. During that period he co-founded the Mood Disorders Centre, directing it through its formative years and co-founded the Masters in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapies. In 2006 Willem was awarded the May Davidson award for clinical psychologists who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work as a qualified clinical psychologist.
Dr. Barbara Mariposa is an experienced medical doctor, acupuncturist, mindfulness coach and educator. She combines her scientific background, counselling and coaching skills, and longstanding personal meditation practice to help people develop a fundamental set of skills to master their well-being at every level. Her workshops are fun, experiential, evidence-based and down-to-earth. Barbara created and runs the Mind Mood Mastery programme, find out more here.
Michael Chaskalson is one of the UK’s leading mindfulness trainers. He is the author of The Mindful Workplace, and also the founder and director of Mindfulness Works Ltd., a major European provider of mindfulness-based interventions. Based in Cambridge, Michael has more than thirty-five years of personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines. He is a member of the core teaching team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, where he teaches a module on the part-time masters programme in mindfulness at the University’s School of Psychology. He is an adjunct professor at IE Business School in Madrid, teaching on their Executive Master’s in Positive Strategy and Leadership.
Rohan Gunatillake is the director of Mindfulness Everywhere, a creative studio combining meditation, technology and design. Currently working on new products for 2015, Mindfulness Everywhere is best known for buddhify, the mindfulness app for modern life, which has topped the charts in over 40 countries. Rohan has an extensive background in mindfulness-based meditation, and has worked for over 10 years in technology and innovation for the likes of IBM, Accenture, Nesta and the Edinburgh Festivals. In 2012 Wired named him in their Smart List of 50 people who will change the world. Rohan’s forthcoming book This Is Happening will be published by Bluebird (Pan Macmillan) in January 2016. An e-short, 24 Hour Mindfulness, is coming this July.
Details
Date: Sunday 19 April 2015
Times: 10am-4pm
Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Price: £129 (includes VAT, booking fee, lunch and refreshments)
Event capacity: 300
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Returns policy
Tickets may be refunded if you contact us at least 14 days before the course start date. Please see our terms and conditions for more information on our refund policy.
