About this event
When my sisters and I were young and getting excited about something, my mother would often pull a face and say, don’t tempt fate! She had the idea that if we showed the world, we were happy then the world would hit back.
In a similar vein, Brene Brown says that human beings find joy to be the most terrifying of experiences. She describes the feeling that she has when she watches her children sleeping and rather than savouring the moment, imagines all the catastrophes that could assail them. She calls this foreboding joy—the way in joy can make us feel vulnerable and so we dress-rehearse tragedy to try and protect ourselves.
But if we continuously protect ourselves from joy then we also lose out. We numb ourselves to the numerous everyday moments that can nourish and sustain us in bringing meaning into our lives.
This workshop aims to correct this misunderstanding by examining how joy works and exploring how it differs from happiness. We’ll focus on joy as a state of being, rather than a transient emotion that relies on everything going well before we can experience it. On a practical level we’ll look at methods we can use to cultivate joy, as well as avoiding the behaviours that undermine it.
This two hour workshop consists of talks, video extracts, exercises, sharing and discussion. Participants will receive a PDF workbook with all the main quotes, charts and exercises.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- To gain a more complete understanding of how joy functions.
- To learn practical ways in which we can cultivate joy and also how to avoid undermining it.
- To realise how important joy is to wellbeing and stability.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- For colleagues who are interested in supporting their clients to grow in confidence in their ability to relax into joy.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- The aim of this workshop is to help participants increase their range of methods and skilful means to enable themselves and their clients.
RECORDING
This event 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 event 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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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Maureen Cooper
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.
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