Mindfulness Course
A significant body of research demonstrates that mindfulness helps to
diminish psychological distress while enhancing psychological well-being.
Mindfulness helps with anxiety disorders, depression, chronic pain, ADHD,
and other forms of mental illness.
In this 6-week course you will learn to practice different forms of mindfulness: formal and informal, active and meditative, thereby gaining skills to cope with stress and emotional distress.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Olivia Harman, MA, MSW, LMSW is a therapist at Clayton Behavioral. Her specialty is
providing mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to adolescents and adults struggling with stress, anxiety disorders, depression, and substance abuse. She was trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at Masterpeace Studios, and received additional training in mindfulness-based CBT during a training at the Beck Institute for CBT.
The benefits of mindfulness are vast. So, we have broken them up into categories, this is by no means a comprehensive list:
Well Being and mental health
- Boosts to working memory
- Relieves rumination
- Stress Reduction
- Creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.
- Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.
- Savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities.
- Relieves depression
- Helps with substance abuse
- Relieves eating disorders
- Less emotional reactivity
- Relieves anxiety disorders
- Helps obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Relationship satisfaction
Body
- Treat heart disease
- Lower blood pressure
- Reduce chronic pain
- Improve sleep
- Alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties
Work
- Become more efficient
- Staying on task
- Helps communication between coworkers
- Inspire ideas
- More energy
- Become a better leader
- Embrace criticism
- Become a better listener
Education
- Increase capacity for learning
- Develop observation skills
- Emotional development
- Being excited about new and mundane ideas
- Increase self-compassion
- Improve grades and behavior