An opportunity for men and women from all walks of life and beliefs to join a Mindfulness Training teacher (Patrick Jones), Benedictine monk (Abbot Placid Spearritt) and Zen Buddhist teacher (Ian Sweetman) as they teach and run workshops in mindfulness, contemplative prayer and meditation.Limited to around 60 places and booked out each time within weeks this third retreat offers teaching and allows space for an experience of the monastic community, meditation or time just to soak up the peace and silence of New Norcia Monastery.
For more information as to bookings please call UWA Extension Courses (UWA: 6488 6000) or New Norcia Monastery.
A) MindfulnessTraining (Teaching)
1. Through discussion and the methods of meditation and present moment awareness individuals are worked with to develop or strengthen their inner balance and well-being. The habitual racing mind is targeted as people are guided to access the gap between thought.
2. Peoples’ emotional experience is addressed by teaching “openness” methods to assist in allowing emotions to be authentically felt whilst they pass.
3. Individuals are guided to a direct experience of the profound stillness and effortless contentment of their own being. Through personal direction and silence people are assisted to open to the natural place of self-realisation - the state of empty selflessness and loving openness to the experience of life. The great Australian phrases phrases "Its all good" and "Too easy" begin to be experienced!
Mondays 6.00 - 7.30 pm
Thursdays 6.00 - 7.30 pm
Mount Pleasant
Western Australia
B) Mindfulness Training (Counselling)
For those individuals that seek assistance in life issues a mindfulness training counselling process is offered that assists people to develop greater skilfulness in both external domains (e.g. work, relationships) and the internal domain of well-being.
Individual sessions are available by appointment in Mt Pleasant and some are eligible for rebates from Medicare.
