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The Centre for Mindfulness Studies
Registrace 20. 05. 2015
The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is an innovative charity and social enterprise in Toronto, Ontario. We offer mindfulness-based therapies and professional training for health care professionals, social service providers, and educators.
The Mindful Silent Auction
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The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is a mental health charity founded in 2011 in downtown Toronto. It is the leading professional development and service delivery organization for online and in-person mindfulness-based interventions in Canada.
As a mental health charity, we help those who face economic and social barriers by providing affordable and effective mindfulness-based mental health services through our Community Program.
www.32auctions.com/MindfulSilentAuction
A special event for those looking to give back. With help from some spectacular sponsors! The auction will be live for 2 weeks!
Be sure to follow us on our socials!
Facebook: mindfulnessstudies
Instagram: mindfulnessstudies
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-centre-for-mindfulness-studies
X: MindfulStudies
The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is a mental health charity founded in 2011 in downtown Toronto. It is the leading professional development and service delivery organization for online and in-person mindfulness-based interventions in Canada.
As a mental health charity, we help those who face economic and social barriers by providing affordable and effective mindfulness-based mental health services through our Community Program.
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The Centre for Mindfulness Studies - Testimonial Video 2023
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Testimonial video filmed October 2023. The Centre for Mindfulness Studies is a mental health charity founded in 2011 in downtown Toronto. It is the leading professional development and service delivery organization for online and in-person mindfulness-based interventions in Canada. As a mental health charity, we help those who face economic and social barriers by providing affordable and effect...
The Mindful Teen Workbook Launch
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The Centre for Mindfulness Studies hosted a book launch event for The Mindful Teen Workbook: Powerful Skills to Find Calm, Develop Self-Compassion, and Build Resilience by Patricia Rockman, Allison McLay, and M. Lee Freedman Stay one step ahead of stress with this fun and engaging mindfulness workbook-just for teens! Do you feel stressed out, anxious, or worried? You aren’t alone! Between schoo...
Grow Mindfulness for Youth Project
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Grow Mindfulness for Youth Project was a 3-year program funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. 82 front-line workers in over 20 youth-serving agencies in Toronto were trained to deliver mindfulness-based programs to underserved youth and their coworkers. For more information, visit www.mindfulnessstudies.com/community/train-the-trainer-2019/.
A Mindful Drink Exercise
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We can use mindfulness in all facets of life, including when we eat and drink. Grab a warm beverage and join us for a short mindfulness practice that you can use each morning with your cup of tea or coffee.
#2. 10 minute mindfulness based progressive muscle relaxation practice
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#2. 10 minute mindfulness based progressive muscle relaxation practice
How to Register for a Program
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If you're interested in signing up for one of our mindfulness programs, check out this video to see the step-by-step registration process.
Choosing a Mindfulness Program
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At the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, we offer 8-week mindfulness programs for your mental health that are all offered live online. Watch the video to see the different programs we offer, as well as information about insurance coverage for these programs.
Try Mindfulness to Support Your Mental Health
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Learn mindfulness digitally from the comfort of your home or office. Participate in a live video conference with a highly experienced mindfulness instructor. We offer 8-week programs including Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, and Mindful Self-Compassion. Visit www.mindfulnessstudies.com/personal/online-programs/ to learn more!
It's Time We Invest in Happiness
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Everyone deserves a chance to be happy. Supporting the Centre for Mindfulness Studies helps provide access to those who cannot afford mental health programs and tools. Visit www.investinhappiness.ca to donate!
Invest in Mental Health Tools for All
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Everyone deserves a chance to be happy. Supporting the Centre for Mindfulness Studies helps provide access to those who cannot afford mental health programs and tools. Visit www.investinhappiness.ca to donate!
Mindfulness Challenge 2021 - How to Donate to a Team
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Click Donate (top right) Click Team (centre of screen) Put Team name XXX into search Select name and click Donate Follow donation instructions
Susan Woods, Guide - Mindfulness Challenge 2021
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Susan Woods, Guide - Mindfulness Challenge 2021
Heather Reid, Committee Co-Chair, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
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Heather Reid, Committee Co-Chair, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
Laurie Arron - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
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Laurie Arron - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
Jeff Warren - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
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Jeff Warren - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
Pat Rockman - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
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Pat Rockman - Guide, Mindfulness Challenge 2021
Virtual Mindfulness Challenge 2021 - Happy New Year!
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Virtual Mindfulness Challenge 2021 - Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Centre for Mindfulness Studies with Patricia Rockman + 3 min practice
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Welcome to the Centre for Mindfulness Studies with Patricia Rockman 3 min practice
Zindel Segal (MBCT co-creator) and Patricia Rockman on benefits of MBCT TTI Online
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Zindel Segal (MBCT co-creator) and Patricia Rockman on benefits of MBCT TTI Online
Patricia Rockman and Elaine Smookler on Reactivity
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Patricia Rockman and Elaine Smookler on Reactivity
Emotional Resilience and the STOP Practice
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Emotional Resilience and the STOP Practice
Loving Kindness Practice with Patricia Rockman
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Loving Kindness Practice with Patricia Rockman
Brief Mindfulness Practice with Patricia Rockman
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Brief Mindfulness Practice with Patricia Rockman
Theologyn ideology hindrances this method in Philippines hope wisdom will spread more so Filipinos learn to be aware n live in the present moment always
NOVEL MINDFULNESS CBT PROCEDURE FROM NEUROSCIENCE Procedure: Consistent and periodic alternation between a resting protocol (e.g. mindfulness) and the exclusive pursuit of meaningful behavior will increase motivation and positive affect (arousal and pleasure), and by making meaningful ideation more emotionally salient, will increase productive motivation and crowd out thoughts leading to anxiety and depression. Explanation: Resting elicits opioid activity, or feels pleasurable, and meaningful behavior, as defined as behavior that has branching novel and positive outcomes (writing that great novel or just making the bed) elicits dopamine activity which causes attentive arousal. The awareness of subsequent meaningful behavior while engaging in relaxation protocols such as mindfulness elicits a ‘priming’ response, namely dopamine release that enhances ongoing opioid activity, and vice versa, making meaningful behavior seem self-reinforcing or ‘autotelic’, with cognition less likely to transition to perseverative thought (worry, regret, distraction) that elicits tension or anxiety. In other words, arousal and pleasure (i.e., dopamine and opioid) systems when simultaneously activated by disparate stimuli are synergistic, and co-activate each other to be more than the affective sum of their parts. Although meditative practice reduces discursive thought or mind wandering that can lead to negative ideation or perseverative thought; it does not inhibit concurrent non-conscious awareness or anticipation of behavior or events subsequent to meditation that can in turn shape or ‘prime’ affective responses during a meditative session. A priming response, like the salivary response that precedes food or the sexual arousal that precedes intimacy, is a preparatory response that often occurs non-consciously, and changes the affective value or ‘feeling’ in the moment. Similarly, relaxing due to ‘being in the moment’ is pleasurable, but if we were told to expect ‘bad’ news or ‘good’ news in the near future, just the awareness of future events is enough to depress or elevate our feelings, but not altering in the slightest our ‘mindful’ or relaxed state. It follows that if mindfulness is paired with the awareness of subsequent positive or meaningful behavior, then rest in mindfulness will have a greater affective tone or ‘feel better’ than if such a prospect or expectancy was absent. This is perhaps why ‘savoring’, ‘loving kindness’ meditation, and ‘flow’ experiences represent highly pleasurable and arousing experiences, as they make future positive ideation contingent to obvious or subtle pleasures (due to relaxation, eating, drinking) and contrast with a lower level of pleasure during typical states of rest that generally precede a return to meaningless discursive thinking. A final note on mindfulness: Mindfulness is not a one-off procedure to fight stress or feel good, but should be viewed as a default mode of thinking that can be engaged most of the day to manage affect, motivation, and overall wellbeing. However, although the mindfulness procedure is invaluable, a distinctive mindfulness process does not exist, but rather reflects the cognitive manipulation of affective processes in resting or relaxed states, and is not an exceptional process but a normal way of acting and thinking that makes our lives exceptional. From ‘the book of rest, the odd psychology of doing nothing’ from the open source document web site scribd
Thanks for sharing your light, wisdom and humour to a very important conversation.
The best, simple and clear explanation I found on the internet!
I attended a series of mindfulness workshops you provided at the Guelph Public library some years ago... How wonderful to find your voice guiding through practices again years later here on CZcams when I decided I needed to revisit and renew mindfulness practices. Hope you are keeping well! Thank you so much for offering these to individuals so they may benefit! 🙏
Ah thanks so much for the kind words! The Centre is offering another mindfulness series at the Guelph public library in January 2024 if you are able to join!
@@blakiesahay9619 Awesome! I'm afraid I've relocated out of the Guelph area, but am hoping to host Forest and Nature Therapy sessions myself in our new(ish) space! There is a local lady here who also is practiced in Guiding Mindfulness Meditation. Hoping to create some retreats in 2024! <3 Thank you for being such an inspiration and for doing the helpful work that you do! <3
Can we find this class in Belgium?
Stopping ... calming ... resting ... Thank you.
Thank you <3 <3
<3<3<3 Thank you sir! I am doing a presentation about this on Monday :)
Fantastic talk and practice!
So this was filmed in April 2020. I'd like to see an update on this with the same two people. I'm curious how thing may have changed given how long this has, and will last.
The mindfulness book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels is good. It has 30 exercises for meditation and mindfulness that are helpful and practical. Mindfulness is a game changer.
Its going to be fantastic event Barry thank you !
Thanks a lot. It is amazing. Can't wait when i would afford ur mbct course in which i would be able to stay mor mentaly healthy. Because sadly, without mindfulness i were able to kill myself. That just gave me experience that my mind is a pazzle. And without gwtting it to one peace, it wouldn't work at all. And mindfulness gave that main peace of pazzle. So everything else like cognitive terapy and stuff about it is totally amazing. But mindfulness(actually concentrating at my nostrls (at the end of my nose, sorry for that word)) gave that power to move from the very bottom to the normal stablish emotional mood. I'n glad u are doing all the stuff about ur centre and i hope more and more people would be able to first of all know about mindfulness and secondly practise it and feel good. Piece!
Thank you!
Also, I take myself to bed ...
You guys make so much sense. I will try to remind myself every time I go off the shelf.
"Thank you, very well said!" <3
Caron, Thank you so much for your comment. Mindfulness is difficult to explain because it is first and foremost experiential. Your write that the word is now used in so many ways as to have become at least confusing if not meaningless. best, pat
I really needed to see this today of all days. It feels as though the word mindfulness has become so cliche that I just turn it off when I hear it. This is one of the best explanations I have ever heard.
Thanks Pat....so great to find this today. Helpful to manage my irritability. And wonderful to see/hear your teachings again!
Thank you! 😀 This helps me to realise that I can cope with the emotional pain for however long it may last!
an important and profound organization
I'm blessed to be both a recipient and contributor to this vital program!
I really enjoyed this, thank you 😊
Had a wonderful experience this past week at the centre for mindfulness studies.. anyone interested in this practice.. should. Many thanks 🙏
Awesome initiative. I am beginning mindfulness too. Since last year. Your work is amazing! An inspiration to what I am going to do in my work life. Please, do not give up on this work. A deep chackra hug
Great initiative - I was involved in something similar locally making simple yoga accessible to those with mental health problems. Much better to prevent as part of a community than to pathologies where possible
thank you so much for including someone seated as well as standing and lying down options on this
Thank you for your generosity in sharing this simple and effective practice that have I found useful in letting go of suffering.
Very clear and concise description of a not-so easy to understand concept.
This is so true. What Filipinos need the most to practice right now is the right kamalayan or mindfulness. Agree about the therapy (MBCT) which is by far a proven psychotherapy to treat depression, trauma, and stress. The Filipino Escapism Reality is far more than accurate so we as informed individuals should push to share and disseminate this knowledge to people who are not privileged to know this wonderful truth. I too am an advocate for Mindfulness for Filipinos. You can check more about how mindfulness improve mental health here: www.mindfulness.ph
Love this video!! What an amazing project. Thanks for making an important impact in our community.
Wonderful and inspiring video on so many levels. Keep up the great work!!