“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf!”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
The next online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training is scheduled for Wednesday nights from 23rd April 2025 . Please be in touch with Maggie to express your interest &/or register below.
Whether you are grappling with a stressful work role, or are a health professional, teacher, consultant or counsellor experiencing burn-out, or have been referred for depression or anxiety, participants find that they have much more in common than not. We all share the same tricky nervous systems and mammal brains designed for survival, not ease, and this program is about finding out for ourselves how mindfulness reduces stress and supports more satisfaction, compassion, wisdom and happiness. It is also about finding, connecting and aligning with our own core values and purpose, so that we are more empowered to live well and with meaning, no matter what we might be up against at any given time.
Next MBSR Program Online – Enrol Now
8 x Wednesdays, 6:30-9pm plus Online Retreat Day as per details below:
Week 1: Stepping out of Automatic Pilot & Waking up, Wednesday 23rd April, 6:30-9pm
Week 2: Perception: How Perception relates to our experience of Stress & Suffering, Wednesday 30th April
Week 3: The Power and Pleasure of being Present & Embodied!, Wednesday 7th May
Week 4: Approaching Emotional Stress and Difficulty more skilfully (Resilience), Wednesday 14th May
Week 5: Stress Physiology; Working with rumination & other unhelpful thinking patterns, Wednesday 21st May Retreat Day: Sunday 25th May 10-4pm (date & full details TBC) Week 6: Interpersonal Mindfulness & Compassion, Wednesday 28th May Week 7: Living on Purpose & according to our Values, Wednesday 4th June
Week 8: Mindfulness as a way of Living and Being, Wednesday 11th June
Online Fees:
Standard $590 incl GST / Concession Card Holder $490. Pay in full by 16th April for a $30 discount off your fee. Please pay on registering to secure your place
Repeating MBSR with Maggie (MindfulPresence) - $390 (new recordings provided)
Please email Maggie if you wish to pay in 2 X $295 instalments.
The fee includes 26 hours session time which works out around $19 per hour for Concession price or $22 per hour if you are paying Full rate. Included in the cost is also a comprehensive MBSR Coursebook sent to you by mail and Downloadable links for a full set of MBSR guided mindfulness meditation practices.
To secure your place, please enrol by filling in the enrolment form below, and pay your nominated amount via direct deposit to:
Bank Account Name: Margaret O'Shea
BSB: 633 000
Account number: 145643953
Reference: Your initials plus MBSR
WHAT IS INVOLVED IN AN MBSR COURSE?
A 2.5-hour class once per week for 8 weeks plus one full retreat day (almost 30 hours total class time)
Mindfulness meditation training (in stillness and movement), including daily practice at home of 30-45 minutes using guided recordings & a comprehensive Coursebook as a guide.
Exploring patterns of thinking, feeling, body sensations, and behaviour
Brief lectures & discussion
Individual feedback & phone support when needed
More about Maggie & her Mindfulness teaching
A meditator since 1994, Maggie has specialised in teaching mindfulness since beginning her teacher training with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) founders Jon Kabat-Zinn & Saki Santorelli in 2009. From 2010-2017 she offered local MBSR groups in addition to facilitating MBSR groups in Hawthorn each school term for Openground, Australia’s leading Mindfulness Teaching Training body. In recent years she has also been offering Kristin Neff & Chris Germers’ Mindful Self Compassion training (MSC); Rick Hansons’ Positive Neuro-plasticity Training (PNT); and her own Deep Rest program combining mindfulness with practices from the tradition of YogaNidra. An individual and couple psychotherapist, Maggie is also a registered Yoga teacher with Yoga Australia (350 hrs) and accredited to teach Brené Brown’s Daring Way and Rising Strong programs.
