Well Being: Mental Health and Mindfulness - A Workshop with Special Guest Chris Germer - InsightLA Meditation

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Well Being: Mental Health and Mindfulness – A Workshop with Special Guest Chris Germer

Joslyn Hitter Teacher

James Rosser, LCSW Teacher

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Eileen Ybarra Teacher

Liz Fitzgerald, LCSW

Location Online
Experience Levels Experienced, Introductory
Date/Time Saturday, May 21, 2022
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT

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“We found a positive and protective value of the mindfulness practice over time on mindfulness, positive affect, depression, and insomnia. Moreover, the frequency of practice and the ease perceived in practicing were positively correlated to several indices of well-being” (Nature/Behavioral Health; Feb 2022)

Mindfulness might play an important role in your mental health by helping you manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. In addition, recent studies reinforce the role mindfulness can play in chronic pain.

The mechanism in mindfulness that supports you in well-being is a focused attention that allows you to understand your own thought habits. Knowing these habits is the key to noticing anxiety and depression as they arise. The earlier you see a phenomenon arise, the more opportunities you have to change the course. You can compassionately note and respond to your experience.

During this special mental health month program, come explore the ways mindfulness supports well-being and mental health. Each of these dynamic speakers will offer a short talk and short practice from their own individual knowledge and experience. The richness of their individual journeys with mindfulness and how it is meaningful is offered as a way of opening up to the many possibilities of mindfulness for you.

The workshop will be moderated by Joslyn Hitter and James Rosser.

Schedule:
We will have a short break in the middle

Well Being: Mental Health and Mindfulness – A Workshop with Special Guest Chris Germer

“We found a positive and protective value of the mindfulness practice over time on mindfulness, positive affect, depression, and insomnia. Moreover, the frequency of practice and the ease perceived in practicing were positively correlated to several indices of well-being” (Nature/Behavioral Health; Feb 2022) Mindfulness might play an important role in your mental health by helping you... Read more

Joslyn Hitter Teacher

Joslyn B. Hitter has been studying Insight Meditation since 2008. Her approach to Insight Meditation is greatly informed by her Master’s degrees in Counseling and Psychology, and Somatic Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. Joslyn also has a Master’s degree in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.... Read more

James Rosser, LCSW Teacher

James has meditated for over 30 years, beginning in 1987 with James Baraz. He graduated from InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (Inaugural Class). James is also a Trained Teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. James leads secular and Buddhist- based mindfulness training, sits, and... Read more

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Berlin to Los Angeles to InsightLA I started my professional life as a Gynecologist at the University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. I had fallen in love with the universality of the Buddhist teachings as a searching teenager and it surely helped me stay sane through medical school and residency. In 2003 my husband, baby daughter... Read more

Eileen Ybarra Teacher

Eileen Ybarra began studying Theravadan Buddhism meditation practice in 2004. Her first meditation teacher was Trudy Goodman. Since 2004, she has also studied with a variety of dharma teachers through the Against the Stream Meditation Society, Insight Meditation Center of Redwood City, Durango Dharma Center, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her profession is public librarianship,... Read more

Liz Fitzgerald, LCSW

Liz Fitzgerald, LCSW (they/them/theirs) has obtained certification in myriad modalities, and has also completed a few degrees. At present, they are gratefully making a living as a psychotherapist – walking alongside others as they wake up to the healing potential that resides within their minds and hearts, and within our many communities. As a white,... Read more

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