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Ways to mindfulness training & gaining new experience

Within the scope of Erasmus+ international project dedicated to the field of mindfulness, the project consortium brings together professionals from mental health sector making the first steps toward a future innovative training in mindfulness tools and techniques. The consortium already developed training material for prospective mindfulness training for Mental health professionals. The very core of the already developed training materials underlines not only the integrative and mind-body based approach towards focusing one owns’ awareness on the present moment but combines modern possibilities of blended learning opportunities for future participants.

At this very moment in two of the projects partnership countries (Spain and Slovenia) the BeMindful&ACT training programme has just started as a 13 week long piloting, within which each of the developed sessions is going to be tested with Mental Health Professionals (MHP). The group of MHP is going to be able to test the developed training materials, integrated on a tailor-made e-learning platform. [Read more…] about Ways to mindfulness training & gaining new experience

NAVIGATE MINDFULLY How can mindfulness create change in your life

Do you feel stuck? Trying to change things and get out from your stuckness? And it doesn’t work? Do you also get stuck in repeatedly using the same strategies, even if they do not work? Albert Einstein said:

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

We may need to STOP and re-think….

Our thinking and our behaviors became habits, and they are difficult to break because they can become a “second nature”. This is good in many senses, we do not need to think about each movement when we drive, it becomes programmed. So much that sometimes we are not even present and all of a sudden we ask ourselves: how did I arrive here? We run auto-pilot and drive mindlessly. But some situations will require much more attention: is there a storm, is it snowing or heavy raining? Then we need to adapt our driving style in order to be safe. [Read more…] about NAVIGATE MINDFULLY How can mindfulness create change in your life

Mental Health professionals, negative stress and mindfulness

Stress is a process during which the human body initiates a number of internal resources in order to confront a real or imaginary threat. A chain of physiological changes that take place in the process, prepare the body to either confront or flee the stressful situation. If this processes of confrontation or flee extend in time it becomes a negative stress and it can lead to significant health problems.

The mental health professionals also have thoughts, sensations, and feelings- private events- which on occasions are disturbing. These may derive, on one hand, form the daily contact with persons that suffer and, on the other hand, from their personal life. The way in which the professionals interact with and handle these private events will determine the impact that these will have on their wellbeing. [Read more…] about Mental Health professionals, negative stress and mindfulness

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