What is Meditation: The Meditation Perspective on Working with our Thoughts

While meditation practices of all kinds are becoming more popular for stress relief and as part of wellness routines, what does Meditation actually mean for the mind? What are our minds doing when we meditate? What are different meditation techniques and how to they cultivate different mental skills?

This workshop will explore the new science of the mind, including what brain scans can tell us about the impacts of meditation and what is actually happening in the brain when we meditate.

We will also talk about how meditation traditions understand our relationship to our thoughts, how we can change our common thought habits, and and how we can enhance our western psychological perspectives of the mind with this additional perspective.

This workshop will give participants a few short meditation practices to experience different techniques for themselves and discuss how we might share some of these simple practices with clients when appropriate.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• an understanding of the new science of meditation & the mind
• a clear perspective of the way meditation traditions see our relationship to our thoughts and how to change this relationship to improve well-being
• an experience of a few simple meditation techniques
• a change to discuss ways to share simple meditation practices with clients

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• This workshop is open to all therapists and those interesting in learning more about meditation from both a experiential and scientific perspective.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• This workshop will give participants new level of understanding meditation that they will be able to use for themselves and their clients.

RECORDING

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Sarah Hunt

Sarah Beth Hunt is a meditation and breathwork coach, yoga teacher and founder of Messy Luminous Being online platform. She received Ph.D. in Indian Studies from the University of Cambridge, and has trained in both the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and traditional yoga through the British Wheel of Yoga. She currently works with clients using movement, breathwork and mind-training practices to harness the body’s physiology and the mind-body connection and transform their inner state.

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