Showing Up
in community for ourselves, each other and our world
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
In-person at Mynd, Bray starting 10 October 2024
Thursday, 10 October - Thursday, 13 December
From 7 – 9.30pm.
*No class on Thursday, 31 October
* Mindfulness retreat day: Sunday, 24 November, 10 - 4pm
“Mindfulness is revealing and it is healing.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Practicing mindfulness helps us to develop inner resources such as clarity, stability and self-compassion. It can wake us up to the small-but-lovely everyday experiences which we miss when we are perpetually caught up in our thoughts. Mindfulness enables us to be really present for the good times, and it makes us aware of what support might be needed when times are tough. Over time and with practice we become better equipped to be present to life as it is, and to respond with more kindness and wisdom to whatever it brings.
Learning and practicing mindfulness in a small group (maximum 12) and sharing our experiences with it helps us to recognize that we have much in common. It can help us to see beyond limited views of ourselves and experience that we are connected to others and to the world.
The eight-week programme of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in 1979. Since then research has shown that committed participation in mindfulness programmes can contribute significantly to overall physical and mental health.
The course is suitable for those with prior meditation experience as well as those who have none. It introduces participants to different forms of mindfulness practice including sitting meditation, body awareness and gentle mindful movement. The classes also explore what we mean by the term ‘stress’, how it manifests in our lives and how mindfulness can support us in responding to it. As the emphasis is on bringing mindful awareness into everyday life, a commitment to daily home practice of thirty to forty minutes is required.
The course is comprised of 8 x 2.5-hr classes, a day retreat, recordings of mindfulness practices and a hardcopy course workbook.
Cost: Standard rate €350, with some supported places available @ €225. An installment plan is available.
A deposit of €100 is payable upon booking and then an orientation call is organised with facilitator Niamh Barrett to make sure that the course is suitable for your needs. If following this call you decide not to take a place on the course your deposit is fully-refundable.
For a booking form and bank/Revolut details please get in touch with Niamh at hello@showingup.ie or phone/WhatsApp 086 2857212.
Niamh Barrett
has been facilitating mindfulness courses since 2010, she a member of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland
(formed to uphold mindfulness teaching standards and guidelines), and is an ongoing student of socially-engaged Buddhism and the practice of council circle, primarily with Beyond Us & Them and Zen Peacemakers (U.S.) She is also an experienced facilitator of online mindfulness practice. In 2019 she founded showing up, a framework of online and in-person retreats and courses to facilitate mindful civic engagement with the housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland, and with other social issues. On Nollaig na mBan 2019 she facilitated a women's day-retreat, inspired by the bearing witness practices of Zen Peacemakers, on the theme of bearing witness to gender-based violence and resilience. Since 2023 she has been organising training in council circle practice in Dublin with trainers from Beyond Us & Them.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you – in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
- Jan Chozen Bays