MindfulnessWorks 2.0, 28th November 2024

A UNIQUE APPROACH — SAFETY, SATISFACTION AND CONNECTION

The Mindfulness 2.0 course for graduates of the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation four week course or those who have some mindfulness experience.

Mindfulness 2.0 is an innovative approach to mindfulness and meditation. The course is based on your own experiential learning, core formal meditation, personal development practising with others, and the core components of wellbeing, safety, satisfaction and connection.

SAFETY — Understand and feel what it is like to be OK with your experience, even in difficult times. Learn to rely more and more on your own presence for your own well-being.

SATISFACTION — Realise you are OK – just as you are, even if your mind is saying something different. Discover the real benefits and joys of a regular formal meditation practice.

CONNECTION — Feel connected to something bigger than yourself and feel greater intimacy with yourself, life and with other people.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: Kovido Maddick

Kovido has over 35 years’ experience in mindfulness and meditation and spent 10 years training as a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition under Ajahn Sumedho.

Kovido has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programmes since 1996. He is co-facilitator of the Dunedin Men’s group and is a Hakomi Graduate. Although his training is primarily Buddhist he is very eclectic, drawing on the wisdom of many different traditions and contemporary teachers including Rumi, Osho, Ajahn Chah, Ram Dass, Jeff Foster and Thich Naht Hanh. Probably his greatest teachers have been his two foster children, Mason and Savannah, who can take him to love, joy, delight and rage and frustration and despair on a daily basis.

For many many years, Kovido tried to get enlightened, improve himself, get better at meditation but constantly failed. Gradually his focus has changed to more self-acceptance, trusting his own intuition and being with life as it is on this wonder-full and mysterious journey as a human being.

4 WEEK IN-DEPTH COURSE DELIVERED FOR THOSE WITH SOME MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION EXPERIENCE

7th, 14th, 21st, 28th March 2024 (5:30PM - 6:30PM)

COURSE LIMITED TO 12 PEOPLE

• Learn how to create and sustain a daily meditation practice
• Receive an email copy of a guidebook with articles, exercises and a reading list to keep (PDF)
• Discover and practice the 3 critical components of human well being – Safety, Security and Connection
• Learn how the brain can rewire itself and how you can use this to experience greater levels of relaxation and self-acceptance
• Get guided meditations and informal mindfulness practices aimed at reducing striving, relating to others and accessing inner calm