Mindfulness-based Life Design

Overview

About this course

Feeling stuck, stressed or unsure what truly matters? This course combines evidence-based mindfulness training and practical life design tools to help you live with clarity, presence, peace and purpose.

Using The Happiness Trap textbook by Dr. Russ Harris, this 8-week journey will guide you to:

• Build psychological flexibility (cultivate the ability to stay present, open up to life as it is, and act in alignment with your values rather than being driven by stress, fear, or self-doubt)
• Reduce stress and improve emotional regulation through everyday mindfulness practices that support your wellbeing
• Explore what truly matters to you, and begin designing a life that reflects your deepest values.

You will engage in guided meditations, journaling and reflective exercises, small-group discussions, and weekly challenges designed to help you integrate mindfulness into daily living.

This course runs for eight sessions, over eight consecutive weeks at our Lismore campus.

TRAINER

Jeremy West is a mindfulness coach and teacher with over 15 years of personal practice and study spanning mindfulness, psychology, and communications. He holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and a Bachelor of Communications from Griffith University and is certified in results-coaching and mindfulness teaching.

After using mindfulness to rebuild his own life, Jeremy now shares his passion for helping others cultivate resilience, presence and peace of mind. His teaching spans community, educational and therapeutic settings – and he draws on improvisational theatre to make learning engaging, interactive and even fun.

MATERIALS

• Please purchase and bring your own copy of The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris (available online and in most bookstores).
• Please purchase and bring your own notebook and pen.
• Wear comfortable clothing suitable for sitting meditation at each session, and bring a cushion or yoga mat if you’d like to use them (sitting in your chair is also fine if you prefer).
• All other course materials, handouts, and guided practice recordings will be provided by the trainer.