Weekly Update 04 February 2023

Weekly Update 04 February 2023

Welcome to this week’s update: a summary of everything we’ve shared on social media throughout the week.

DAILY SIT SCHEDULE

Week commencing 06 February 2023

Ahead of Monday’s reminder, here is the daily sit schedule for the week commencing 06 February 2023. To register, click on the image. If you have already signed up to our daily sits, keynotes, or social evenings, there is no need to register again, we use the same zoom link for all these sessions (please do check your spam folder if you have recently registered and not received the link). Please reuse the link given to you on your first registration for each future session.

KEYNOTE FEBRUARY 2023

Thanks to those who attended our keynote on Wednesday. If you missed it, you can now catch up by watching the video on YouTube or listening to the audio recording wherever you would normally get your podcasts.

NEWS UPDATES

We are looking for volunteers to work with our Comms and Fundraising Officer to support the day-to-day work of our communications and to support us as we increase the momentum of our fundraising work. For more information, and to apply, please click on the image below.

SHARING FROM THE OMF

With thanks to academics in the field, we are sharing research with the OMF community.  You can read more from a 2022 paper – Effectiveness of brief mindfulness intervention for college students’ problematic smartphone use: The mediating role of self-control by clicking on the image below. The research and reporting in this article are independent of the OMF.

This week’s quote comes from Mark Williams.

This week’s book reading is Happiness – Essential Mindfulness Practices by Thich Nhat Hanh. Kindly read by Jo Edwards, OMF Programme Administrator.

We’ve also shared one piece of mindfulness-related news every day. A favourite from this week was this article from Time Magazine titled How to Make Gratitude Feel Less Like a Chore. Click on the image below to read.


LEARN MINDFULNESS

There are plenty of opportunities to discover Mindfulness for Life with us in February 2023. We have a course with Makeda McKenzie starting on Wednesday, 22 February 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

We are offering an Introducing Mindfulness course in February. With Marion Furr and Makeda McKenzie starting on Tuesday, 07 February 2023. For more information, please click on the image.

We are also offering a Mindfulness: Taking it Further course in February. This is with Gill Johnson starting on Tuesday, 21 February 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

Finally, there are two opportunities to discover Frame by Frame with us in February 2023. We have a course with Linn Brynildsen starting on Wednesday, 22 February 2023. For more information, please click on the image.

TEACH MINDFULNESS

Are you an Mindfulness for Life Teacher interested in teaching the Finding Peace in a Frantic World curriculum? We have a one-day workshop focussing on the Finding Peace Curriculum. For more info and to apply, please click on the image.

Application deadline tomorrow. New workshop: Mindfulness-informed Cancer Care. This experiential training is for those currently working with people with cancer, who have some experience / interest in mindfulness, and would like to explore what this might offer them and their work.

We have several CPD workshops for mindfulness teachers available in  February and March 2023. For more info and to apply, please click on the image below.

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