Individual 8-week MBSR Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course or Mindful Coaching

Learning How to Live Well!

Join Kathy Ward and experience the life-changing original, evidence-based, 8-Week MBSR mindfulness course as developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMass Medical Center in 1979 in the comfort of your own home. I also offer Mindful Coaching if you prefer not to commit to 8 weeks.

In just 8-weeks this evidence-based course may help you to –

• Wake up and step out of “automatic pilot”, where you experience life mainly based on thoughts of the past or future so that you can live your life with awareness, curiosity, and kindness.
• Find out how to explore your perceptions and relationship to the challenges and stressors in your life.
• Cultivate friendliness and openness to how you react with habitual stress reactivity as well as develop more effective ways of responding.
• Learn how to spot and take action when you find yourself worrying about the past, or frozen with anxiety about a future that may never happen.
• Develop resilience to bounce back more quickly from life’s inevitable ups and downs.
• Build on mindfulness self-awareness and self-management by expanding with curiosity and kindness to focus on communication skills for better relationships and social awareness.
• Commit to integrating mindfulness into your life, and reflect on lifestyle choices to live well.

I know from personal experience living with chronic illness that mindfulness has changed my life, giving me the tools to live well with chronic illness. It is why I trained extensively with the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice CMRP Bangor University so that I could share these life-changing practices with others.

You may be wondering “How could mindfulness help me?” or “How do I know if it will work for me? Ultimately, it is an empirical question, and everyone is encouraged to find out for themselves how mindfulness may or may not benefit their lives, I can give you the tools, you need to do the practice! All I ask is that you come along with an open mind and a commitment to learning how to live well. 

Luckily to help us with the questions, from 1966 to 2021 a massive 16,581 publications on mindfulness were identified, and MBSR has been scientifically shown to be an effective complement to a wide variety of medical and psychological conditions. Below is a partial listing with links to research on some of the possible benefits of mindfulness practice.

Anxiety, Asthma, Cancer, Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Emotional eating, Fibromyalgia, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Mood Disorders, Sleep Disorders, Smoking cessation, Stress Disorders, Stress Management for healthy individuals, Stress and burnout  

However, mindfulness is not for everyone, no matter what you read on social media. Please Read Here to discover if a mindfulness-based course is right for you at this time.