• Mindfulness for Life is designed to cultivate mindful awareness of our body, emotions and mind so that we can live our lives with a greater sense of wellbeing, kindness and resilience.

• This is an evidence-based course, developed through research from Oxford University and other leading research centres.

• The course aims to offer you skills to meet life's challenges and difficulties in both internal and external aspects; as well as skills to develop more awareness and appreciation of the pleasant moments in life that we can often overlook.

You will learn the following skills:

• Stabilizing the attention through recognizing Mind Wandering and "Autopilot"

• Bringing the attention back to where we want it to be with interest, patience, and care

• Learning different ways of being and knowing: through Direct Experience and through Thinking

• Understanding more about how mind creates meaning

• Learning to recognize our patterns of reactivity and how to get rid of distress that keep us stuck

• Bringing a sense of care and kindness to ourselves in those moments of distress and reactivity

• Using mindfulness to respond skillfully, not react in ways that support the wellbeing of ourselves and of others around us

• Stepping back a little from our direct experience so that we can see it more clearly, and to choose a kinder response

• Building what we have learnt into our daily lives

The syllabus follows the Cognitive Therapy Course created by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford:

The first week: Wake up from Autopilot

The Second week: Another way of being: Keeping the Body in Mind

The third week: Gathering the Scattered Mind

The fourth week: Recognizing Reactivity

The fifth week: Allowing and Letting Be

The Sixth week: Responding skillfully: Thoughts are not Facts

Day of Practice: All-day Retreat using different methods to understand thoughts

The Seventh week: How Can I Best Take Care of Myself

The Eighth week: Mindfulness for Life

This course comprise of 8 Sessions and Day of Practice

Details of 8-week sessions are as follows:
• Each practice or exercise is followed by a review of what you and/or other participants experienced or discovered in that practice/exercise
• Each session is followed by suggestions for personal practice up to 45 minutes. This includes both recommended guided practices, and also ways to cultivate new habits of mindfulness in everyday life.
• You will have access to web resources which gives you guided practices and written material to support each session

Details of the Day of Practice are as follows:
• It aims at revisiting practice introduced in the course and introduces some new practices, which will be arranged after Week 6
• This is an opportunity to deepen practice; whilst an invaluable learning experience, it does not form part of the core teaching

**This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological conditions. Persons currently with severe problems mentioned above are not recommended to take this course
**This is a structured course where each session builds upon what has been introduced before. Therefore you are suggested to participate in every session.
**You will get a certification from our Oxford Mindfulness Teacher trainer upon attendance with at least 7 sessions and the Day of Practice.