Are you ambivalent about the holiday season? On the one hand you look forward to the gatherings, the presents and the welcome break from routine but on the other hand you dread the stress, the emotional complications and all the fuss? The holidays are supposed to be a magical winter break but all too often they are fraught, exhausting and emotionally draining.
In these two sessions we'll take a look at what constitutes the stress of the holidays and how we normally handle it. We'll explore our habits of coping and review whether or not they actually work for us. With this information at our finger tips, we'll explore a range of compassion exercises that could enable us to approach our holiday challenges differently—and we will check out the science that backs this up.
Participants will leave the workshops with a workbook of exercises and a set of practical tools they can immediately apply.
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Maureen is the founding director of Awareness in Action, an organization dedicated supporting people to make sustainable wellbeing part of their lives—through developing clarity, connection and openness.
Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a professional educator, senior manager in a non-profit organization, an entrepreneur and as an experienced practitioner of Buddhist meditation, she leads Awareness in Action workshops and training programs in the UK and Europe.
Her new book, The Stress Workbook is a groundbreaking effort that brings together the best of modern science and the wisdom of the world’s ancient contemplative traditions into a practical manual for thriving in today’s fast-paced world. Although born in London, UK love took Maureen to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she lives with her husband.
