New 8-Week Online MBSR Plus Program – Starts 11 August
We’re excited to offer our fully updated Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Plus (MBSR Plus) program online from Monday 11 August at 7:00 PM (AEST).
This course brings together the core of MBSR with important new insights from neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, compassion-focused therapy, and ecological psychology. There will be an additional session offered each Sunday, and you may attend either or both each week.
📅 Course Duration: 8 sessions over 9 weeks (break on 15 September)
🌞 Day of Mindfulness: Saturday 20 September (in-person or online)
🧾 Cost: $400 (or $230 with MHCP rebate—group component applies)
🚫 No one is turned away due to cost.
Register your interest here: committeemanainc@gmail.com
MBSR Plus: An 8-Week Journey of Awareness, Healing and Inner Compassion
Week 1 – Awareness and Automatic Pilot
Exploring mindfulness and attention. Discover how often we live on "automatic pilot" and what it means to wake up to life.
Practices: Body scan, breath awareness, noticing habits.
Week 2 – Living in Our Heads
Understanding how thoughts dominate our lives and disconnect us from the body. Includes new education on the embodied brain.
Practices: Qigong-inspired movement, embodied breath, Body Scan.
Week 3 – Gathering the Scattered Mind
Training attention, working with mind-wandering and re-focusing.
Practices: Lying-down yoga, sound meditation, attention practices.
Week 4 – Recognising Aversion
Learning to stay present with unpleasant experience instead of avoiding it.
Practices: Standing mindful yoga, R.A.I.N., somatic tracking.
Week 5 – Allowing / Letting Be
Letting go and meeting experience with kindness. New nature-based focus to support emotional regulation.
Practices: Outdoor/visual nature meditation, inner compassion reflection.
Week 6 – Thoughts Are Not Facts / Real Compassion
Unhooking from unhelpful thoughts. Introducing real compassion as an active, brain-based motivation.
Practices: Thought reframing, short compassion meditation.
Week 7 – Working with the Self-Critic / Taking Care of Myself
Using functional analysis to understand the critic as fear-driven, not helpful.
Practices: Self-reflection, compassionate letter writing, soothing rhythm breath.
Week 8 – Maintaining and Extending New Learning
Integration, values-based living, and sustaining mindful awareness.
Practices: Gratitude, mindful walking, closing reflections.
🌱 What’s New in MBSR Plus?
Inner compassion (not “self-compassion”) to support safety and emotional repair
Nature-based focus in Weeks 4–6
Functional analysis of the self-critic (Week 7)
Relapse prevention drawn from MBCT
Neuroscience of embodied awareness throughout
Mindful movement via Qigong and Siegel's work