Mindful Way Through AnxietY

Anxiety doesn’t come about from thinking about the future,
but from wanting to control the future.

Kahlil Gilbran

Mindful Way Through Anxiety - 6 week group program (with optional mini retreat)

For many, anxiety, worry, or fear are stumbling blocks that can be extraordinarily difficult to overcome. The problem is, you can’t just “get over” anxiety. In fact, the very things most people do to try to feel better—avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out of mind—only make the problem worse.

Anxiety is a sense of feeling stressed, worried, fearful, panicky, restless, escalated heartbeat, breathing difficulties, throat tightening, tingling in the hands/feet/extremities, sweating, or even a total meltdown/panic attack. Anxiety is the most common mental health issue in the world. Despite the pain associated with this issue, it is quite treatable through psychological strategies.

Drawing on two decades of research and clinical experience, Mindful Way Through Anxiety develops a powerful new alternative that can help you break free of anxiety by fundamentally changing how you relate to it. Based on the authors, Susan M Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer, The Mindful Way Through Anxiety provides over 25 years of research on anxiety, anxiety disorders, and treatments

Participants will learn the biology of anxiety and proven strategies to conquer symptoms, change thoughts that precipitate anxiety and how to engage in more effective behavior.

Topics:

• Learn the biology of anxiety and proven strategies to conquer symptoms

• Learn step-by-step strategies for gaining awareness of anxious feelings without letting them escalate

• Learn how to loosen the grip of worry and fear

• Change thoughts that precipitate anxiety and how to engage in more effective behavior

• Learn how mindfulness and the other strategies assists you in finding your personalized path toward living life without fear and regrets.

How Mindfulness Calms Anxious Feelings:

• Mindfulness helps you learn to stay with difficult feelings without analyzing, suppressing, or encouraging them. When you allow yourself to feel and acknowledge your worries, irritations, painful memories, and other difficult thoughts and emotions, this often helps them dissipate.

• Mindfulness allows you to safely explore the underlying causes of your stress and worry. By going with what’s happening rather than expending energy fighting or turning away from it, you create the opportunity to gain insight into what’s driving your concerns.

• Mindfulness helps you create space around your worries so they don’t consume you. When you begin to understand the underlying causes of your apprehension, freedom and a sense of spaciousness naturally emerge. 

Some of the clinically proven benefits of Mindfulness:

• Stress reduction, at work or at home, especially for anxiety over health issues, aging, and uncertainty about the future

• Managing symptoms and reducing suffering from medical conditions such as chronic pain, high blood pressure, heart disease, persistent headaches, and more

• Enhancing our ability to overcome psychological distress such as panic attacks, depression, fatigue, and insomnia

• Support for any preventive care, exercise, diet, and wellness plan

Class Description:

• Develop a solid meditation practice & learn how to manage stress, quiet your mind, calm your body, and increase your enjoyment of life

• Explore the meaning, method, and benefits of mindfulness meditation

• Change your relationship to thoughts and feeling learn a variety of meditation techniques including sitting, walking, body-scan, and loving-kindness meditation.

• Strengthen your connection to yourself, others, and the environment

• Feel supported within a small group of like minded individuals.

Who should attend?

Individuals suffering from chronic anxiety, stress, panic attacks, physical pain and/or mental suffering, who wish to increase their overall health and well-being in a group setting

Details:

• 6 weeks of 2 hour sessions, with an optional half day silent retreat

• Each session includes practices of meditation, mindful movement, group sharing and other exercises to learn to apply mindfulness in daily life

• Groups size are 8 - 16 participants

• Free workbook, handouts, videos and recordings to support your home practice

• Virtual via Zoom link or Virtual

The Training:

During the training, you will learn a range of mindfulness meditation and awareness techniques. The program is intensive and also experiential. You will learn how to apply mindfulness into your daily life, helping you to become more aware, and accepting of your anxiety and how to bring a calming presence to what is showing up in the moment.

Instructor:

Pam Hauck is a Certified Canadian Counsellor who specializes in integrating counselling with eastern approaches of working with the mind. She earned a Master’s in Counselling degree from Gonzaga University and is a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher trained under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.  Pam has been teaching and practicing mindfulness since 2015 and is a MBSR and MBCT Trained Mindfulness Facilitator through the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto. 

Fee: $450 + gst

Insurance Coverage:

A receipt with Certified Canadian Counselling registration number will be provided. Many extended health insurance plans will partially or fully cover the cost of this course.  Please check with your specific plan.

For more information, contact Pam Hauck at: 
pam@prhcounsellingservices.com