Mindfulness Workshop
Includes short Mindfulness practices and cognitive exercises depending on the duration of the workshop. Participants will be invited to share their experiences.
❖ Introduction and safety guidelines.
❖ What do participants wish to gain from this workshop.
❖ What is mindfulness as a concept?
❖ What it is not?
❖ Background of the origins of Mindfulness and the development in Healthcare.
❖ Foundational attitudes/qualities which support Mindfulness practice
❖ What does it mean to be living on Automatic Pilot?
❖ What happens when we constantly live on Automatic Pilot?
❖ Understanding the workings our mind, how to gather the scattered mind?
❖ What are learning from our short practices? Attitudes/qualities
❖ Cognitive exercise: what do our experiences look like? What keeps us in stress mode?
❖ Benefits of Mindfulness (workplace benefits)
❖ Introduction to 8 week Mindfulness for Life Course: skills - values self care
❖ Reflection on the workshop.
❖ Q&A
Mindfulness is to be aware of your own experience, moment to moment, without judgement. Put simply it is about actively (intentionally) “being in the moment”.
At Joy of Mindfulness we offer online mindfulness courses and face to face mindfulness in the Algarve, Portugal. We all have the inbuilt ability to practice mindfulness, the challenge of becoming more mindful is learning to access that ability
Laughter Yoga movement originated in India in 1995 and was founded by Doctor Madan Kataria. We prefer practicing in groups, either online or in person Laughter Yoga in the Algarve, Portugal.
Laughter Yoga is a combination of deep breathing exercises from yoga and laughter exercises, which oxygenates our body and brain improving our overall well-being.
We offer Mindfulness courses which provide personalised mindfulness training in a structured and supportive environment. We also offer provide MBCT Courses in the Algarve and online. We also provide in person and online laughter yoga classes