Weekly Update 04 March 2023

Weekly Update 04 March 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 March 2023

Ahead of Monday’s reminder, here is the daily sit schedule for the week commencing 06 March 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

We hope you enjoyed March’s keynote with with Dr Carly Hunt. The audio recording is now available wherever you normally get your podcasts. The video recording is available on YouTube.

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 2023 paper – Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders 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 taken from Bessel Van de Kolk’s “The Body Keeps the Score”. Read by Sally Bolton, OMF Comms and Fundraising Officer.

We’ve also shared some mindfulness-related news. A favourite from this week was this article from The Big Think: We all get “monkey mind” — and neuroscience supports the Buddhist solution. Click on the image below to read. The research and reporting in this article are independent of the OMF.

LEARN MINDFULNESS

There are plenty of opportunities to discover Mindfulness for Life with us in March 2023. We have a course with Leonie Schell starting on Monday 27 March 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

We are also offering Mindfulness for Life in Mandarin starting on Thursday, 23 March 2023 with Yi-Mei Liu. For more information, click on the image below.

We are offering an Introducing Mindfulness course in March. With Sian Warriner starting on Tuesday, 14 March 2023. For more information, please click on the image.


We are also offering a Mindfulness: Taking it Further course in March. This is with Alex Irving starting on Wednesday, 29 March 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

Finally, Ruth Baer is leading a frame by frame course starting on Monday 20 March 2023. For more information, please click on the image.

TEACH MINDFULNESS

On 23 March 2023 we are offering a 1-day workshop on training to teach the Introducing Mindfulness course. For more information, and to apply, please click on the image below.

Mindfulness-informed Cancer Care. Due to the last programme being oversubscribed we have worked with Trish Bartley and Christina Shennan to schedule another workshop starting in August 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

RETREATS & PRACTICE DAYS

We are offering several practice days throughout March, April, and May. These offer an opportunity deepen your mindfulness practice in a supportive online group setting. They are designed for those with an existing practice and teachers (or trainee teachers) of mindfulness-based programmes. For more info and to apply, please click on the image below.

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