Mindfulness in Minutes: Enhancing Resilience

Description

In this time of uncertainty, unforeseen challenges, and change, we need to learn how to be resilient, exploring ways to reduce stress as we clear the mind and calm the body. We need to be able to center in the moment and do what needs to be done–with clarity, focus, and compassion for self and others.

One way to help ourselves be resilient is to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is moment-to-moment awareness of what is – simply being present one moment at a time, in a gentle, non-judgmental way. When we feel overwhelmed by fear about illness, finances, or what the future may hold, we can learn to pause, to breathe, and to focus on what is, creating a moment of spaciousness.

Learning to bring mindfulness into “real life” is a moment-to-moment opportunity that can enhance wellbeing and nurture resilience―one breath at a time.  Join Nina Smiley, Ph.D., co-author of The Three Minute Meditator and Director of Mindfulness Programming at Mohonk Mountain House for a one-hour webinar designed to help you understand how to use mindfulness in a way that’s practical, powerful, and accessible.  

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

This webinar is designed to help beginners understand how mindfulness meditation works and how to use it in real life and real time! 

This class is for You, if:

• You’ve never meditated before…
• You’ve tried meditating, and said, “It just doesn’t seem to work for me…”
• You already meditate and want to bring it more deeply into the nitty gritty of your daily life…
• You want the opportunity to learn a new life skill within this session!

Participation is simple:

• We'll begin by providing a simple way to understand mindfulness.
• We’ll be doing a progression of 3-minute “chunks” of mindfulness meditation throughout the session. These are the building blocks for your practice.
• We’ll explore slight variations, because you are the expert on yourself and you’ll find what is most accessible for you.
• Wear comfortable clothes. There’s no movement in this class, but comfort helps reduce distractions.
• Find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.
• Allow an hour for this class.
• Don’t try to take notes. This is all about the experience.

Presented and Developed by

Nina Smiley, Ph.D.

As Director of Mindfulness Programming at Mohonk Mountain House and co-author of The Three Minute Meditator (now in its fifth edition and translated into seven languages), Nina’s focus is on sharing simple and effective mindfulness meditation techniques that can be used by real people in real lives (when they really need it)—one moment at a time.

Nina discovered mindfulness meditation in the 1980s, developing a practice that has become integrated within her life, rather than “carved out from it.” Nina’s presentations are defined by simplicity and practicality, offered with warmth and compassion, making mindfulness accessible for immediate life-enhancing action – anywhere and anytime.

Her work has been seen in publications including The New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Prevention.com. She leads programs and teaches private classes on mindfulness and wellbeing at Mohonk Mountain House. Her book Mindfulness in Nature describes how “forest bathing” can enhance our relationship with the natural world to explore and deepen our understanding of ourselves and each other.

Nina received an undergraduate degree at Vassar College, a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University, and worked in Washington, D.C. for many years. 

Follow Up Workshop Information

Many thanks to Dr. Nina Smiley for sharing, Mindfulness in Minutes, on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Participants experienced simple and effective mindfulness meditation techniques, with examples as to how one might choose to integrate the techniques into everyday life.

Participant requests for the future include recording the mindfulness meditation techniques, to consider a family session for staff and their children, and to think about how we can share mindfulness meditation with our students. TASC is exploring each of these requests, and we will let you know when we have more information!