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Suicide Prevention Through Mindfulness Training

Session Topics

  1. Mindfulness and Suicide Prevention: What’s It All About?
  • What is mindfulness, and what does it have to do with suicide prevention?
  • The mindfulness approach to dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions.
  1. Grounding and Mindfulness-Awareness Practice
  •  Different ways to ground yourself in the present.
  •  Mindfulness-Awareness instruction and practice: the cornerstone.

 

  1. Being Present & Mindfulness in Everyday Life
  • Why synchronizing body and mind are so important.
  • How to practice mindfulness during everyday tasks.

 

  1. Birthright of Goodness: Discovering Inner Resources
  • Getting to know your inner resources: kindness, compassion, wisdom, openness.

 

  1. Self-Judgment vs. Kindness / Making Friends with Yourself
  • Recognizing harshness and self-criticism
  • Cultivating self-compassion.

 

  1. Stress and Anxiety & the Power of Pausing
  • What to do about stress and anxiety
  • Learning to pause.

 

  1. Rumination & Disengaging From Thoughts
  •  How to develop a healthy relationship with thoughts.
  1. A New Way to Relate to Feelings and Emotions
  •     How to develop a healthy relationship with feelings and emotions.

Outcomes Summary from 2021 Pilot: 

https://safermindfulness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Suicide-Prevention-Outcomes-Short-Version-AUG-10-21.pdf

Register: https://bit.ly/SuicidePrevention2025

 

Mindfulness for ADHD

Back By Popular Demand

Free Introductory Session: “Evidence of Effectiveness”: April 9th 7:30 pm (NST)

6-Week Workshop Series: April 16th to May 21st 7:30 pm (NST) 

“I have found Andrew Safer’s mindfulness program has been the impetus for me to remember to slow down…He reminds us that the tendency to speed up and multitask is not uniquely ours. Learning these small things–attention, coming back from the whirlwind of multitasking and inner chaos–noticing, with that all-important gentleness, the feeling of ourselves on the ground, squaring the posture. Andrew reminds us to be present to the magic of things just when they almost blow away. So glad I touched in.”

–Cathy Jones, Halifax, NS

“I have found that after attending lessons and working through the skill building techniques learned in Andrew Safer’s “Mindfulness for ADHD” that I am not only able to understand the proper fundamentals around practising meditation, awareness, other mindfulness methods, but also realize the benefits from feeling more grounded and able to recognize when distractions are impacting me and how to handle them in order to get on with things that are most important.”

–George Creaser, Hubley, NS

Spring Meditation Retreat

This Retreat begins one day after the first day of Spring!…March 22nd

Space is limited, so we recommend registering sooner rather than later:

To register, click: https://bit.ly/SpringRetreatDowntown