ONLINE MIND-BODY SKILLS SUPPORT GROUP
Our Online Mind Body Skills Group is a meditative group process, involving Mind-Body Medicine theory and practice, It offers a combination of research-based healing therapies to help participants deal with life changes, stress and illness. They incorporate some of the effective and accessible stress reduction tools. They are highly experiential and integrate techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, autogenic training (self-hypnosis), breath work, movement, self-expression, journaling and other approaches all taught in a supportive environment.
Who: This model recognizes and embraces individual differences; participants are given an opportunity to explore a variety of methods, and to take the time to listen inwardly to learn more about their own needs. Anyone can benefit from joining including people who already practice some mind-body skills. Groups are comprised of adults of all ages and backgrounds.
Theme: The desire to seek support and develop internal resources to make changes – whether to decrease stress, pain or anxiety, enhance health and wellbeing or find clarity about important life decisions.
HOW: An online group is grounded in self-reflection. Sharing with others in a structured and intimate group format affords a unique space to acknowledge, honor, and express the various aspects of your experience. You are being witness to your own as well as other’s emotions and experiences. We find that sharing and connecting with others creates a wonderful learning and growth environment that supports individual and collective wellbeing.
Size: Our groups emphasize a sense of community. They are small, with 8 to 10 people.
Duration and Time: We meet on a set day and time for 8 weekly sessions, with each group lasting 1.5 to 2 hours.
This format provides an opportunity to begin to integrate the mind-body skills into your life, in a real and practical way, with the support of the group to help you work through any difficulties along the way.
WHY: This online educational project has been launched to bring you the opportunity to experience Wellbeing Center’s time-trusted approach, in a way that’s most convenient for you.
You will practice Mind Body skills and you will benefit from the experience of the powerful small group support. Our groups have been designed to be practical and grounded into your daily life. You will integrate what you’ve learned immediately into your daily life, maximizing your self-care and enabling you to deal more successfully with stress, all with a support and guidance of our facilitator, Dr. Myrna Saadeh.
YOU WILL YOU LEARN:
The evidence-based skills that you will learn have been documented to help lower levels of stress, improve mood, enhance resiliency and optimism, and help prevent chronic health conditions.
These skills include:
- Meditation – Several different kinds, including concentrative, mindfulness, and expressive meditations – all of which promote relaxed, moment to moment awareness.
- Guided Imagery – To mobilize your imagination, to improve physiological functioning, and address concerns and problems that have previously resisted solutions.
- Autogenic training & Biofeedback – To develop control over autonomic system functioning, reduce stress, and bring mind and body into balance.
- BreathWork – Enhance your health through breath awareness Movement – To release stress and increase energy.
- Self-expression – in words in journaling and drawing, to find solutions to previously insoluble problems
REQUIREMENTS TO REGISTER:
- Please be at least 18 years of age.
- Please bring a commitment to participate in all 8 online group sessions and completing a short program evaluation.
- Please have a desire to connect with, relate to, and understand others and their unique experience, equal to your own.
- Fill the support group registration form.