Mindfulness Therapy Group
Mindfulness is a practice of awakening to the present moment with full awareness and acceptance allowing us to deeply experience life as it unfolds. Mindfulness teaches us how to reduce suffering through the development of wisdom and compassion. This 8 week group combines the ideas and techniques of psychotherapy with those of meditative practices in order to better understand patterns of thinking linked with states like depression, anxiety, or chronic unhappiness while learning to develop a new relationship with them.
Ideal candidates for the group include those seeking introductory knowledge of therapeutic mindfulness skills to cope more effectively with life's sources of suffering (i.e., depression, anxiety, panic, stress, chronic pain, disease, parenting, work stress, relationships...)
GROUP BEGINNING IN OCTOBER 2011
- Reduce worry and stress
- Enhance inner peace and acceptance
- Improve compassion for self & others
- Increase joy in your life
- Decrease physical stress
- Reduce reactivity in the face of change or stress
- Reduce suffering
Research has consistently demonstrated the profound benefits of mindfulness on medical and psychological symptoms across a variety of different conditions including anxiety, depression, chronic pain and improved sense of self and psychological hardiness - with empirical support demonstrating lasting positive changes!
For more information please call Hanover Psychiatry at (603) 277-9110
Group leaders: Susan Stevens, Psy.D. and Shanna Treworgy, Psy.D.