MBSR – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course

Break the cycles of anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion: MBSR brings the principles of mindfulness meditation into everyday life by teaching specific skills and practices that can be incorporated into your daily life.

Come and see how this inspiring course, now running in the Illlawarra, can help you develop more mental, emotional, physical and psychological resilience and well-being.

Start applying your innate capacity to both reduce distress, and also enhance delight and appreciation for what is here. By learning where and how to place attention, the world opens up, and small and big freedoms can be found.

The course will surprise you – it is plain-speaking, emotionally intelligent and alive.

This course includes:

• an individual phone interview prior to the course, and ongoing individual support from your teacher
• a 2.5 hour class, over 8-9 weeks, plus one full retreat day
• mindfulness meditation and body awareness training
• an exploration of your own patterns and how to transform them
• good conversations about things that matter
• scientific rationale for the practice
• access to Openground audio app for practice and a 100 page course book

You spend quite a bit of time during the course really investigating your mind and body in the company of people whose lives and discoveries over the eight weeks give you something profound – a feeling of connection and belonging that you haven’t felt for a while. You spend time listening deeply, not only to your own experience of sensations, thinking, feeling and action, but you get to know your patterns in a way that is tender and caring but also transforming. You find out that you can do things differently to make serious changes in how you experience your five-year-old, your boss, your insomnia, your pain, your anxiety, your depression. You discover both subtle and big changes in how you want to spend your time. You get some confidence in your own goodness and the goodness of others – which can be a rare experience these days.

MBSR courses offer depth, safety, continuity and connection with a highly trained, dedicated teacher to help you engage with the heart of the matter – so that you can find more resilience, effectiveness and authority in your life. While a short course, app or workshop may offer a taste of mindfulness, it is unlikely to provide you with the experience, space and time to develop your own practice, which is what leads to the outcomes you probably want and are truly possible from this inspiring method. Come exactly as you are!

Please note:

It will take time!
It will cost you!
It may be uncomfortable!
It may change your life!

Adele would like to thank Openground for their permission to quote directly from their website.

Please contact Sue at Mind Your Busyness for alternative MBSR face to face courses in Wollongong.

Saturday 10th May 2025 2-5pm
Saturday 17th May 2025 2-4.30pm
Saturday 24th May 2025 2-4.30pm
Saturday 31st May 2025 2-4.30pm
Saturday 7th June 2025 2-4.30pm
Saturday 14th June 2025 2-4.30pm
Saturday 21st June 2025 2-4.30pm
Sunday 22nd June 2025 10am-4.30pm Mt Keira Girl guides camp
Saturday 28th June 2025 2-5pm