A Mindfulness-based

M E N’ S   G R O U P

with Greg Johanson, Ph.D.

 

 

Mindfulness is an empirically validated tool at the heart of a number of healing methods. Its roots extend to ancient wisdom and spiritual traditions. It supports personal growth and healing through employing two aspects of consciousness that are always available, but rarely cultivated and brought to bear: First, the ability to bring awareness to our felt present experience in a way that frees us from being at the mercy of habitual reaction patterns. Secondly, the ability to bring essential qualities such as calm, curiosity, and compassion to bear on parts of ourselves that need some kind of help.

 

Learning and practicing compassionate awareness has been demonstrated to be helpful with a variety of human concerns including:

·        Personal relationships

·        Parenting

·        Emotional intelligence in the workplace

·        Bothersome feelings

·        Worrisome habits or addictions

·        Dealing with loss

·        Envisioning the future

·        Relating to stress

 

Mindfulness can transform our relationship to our lives, while avoiding the pitfalls of engaging in self-improvement projects, escapisms, or intellectual speculations. Mindful methods provide a wise, reliable, self-empowering approach that can be profitably employed by spiritual and secular seekers alike who want to practice their way toward increased freedom, depth, joy, and richness by responding spaciously, as opposed to reacting habitually, to the concrete realities of daily life.

 

The group will be both psycho-educational through introducing concrete practices each week to be used at home, and therapeutic through the opportunity for individuals to do mindfulness-based in-depth brief therapy in a group setting. At the end of the twelve week group each participant will have been resourced with a variety of mindfulness-based practices that have been applied to many aspects of one’s life that can be profitably used for continued growth and meaning.

 

The structure of each two-hour group: An initial check-in time concerning how life and the week’s practice are going; a time for doing individual work within the group setting; a time to debrief the session in relation to the group; an orientation toward the coming week’s practice.

 

            Times:                       Monday evenings 7:00-9:00pm OR Saturday mornings 9:00-11:am

            Dates:                       Mondays = Nov 9^th, 16^th, 23rd, 30th; Dec 7^th, 14^th; Jan (2010) 4^th, 11^th,

                                                18^th, 25^th; Feb 1^st, 8^th.

                                    Saturdays = Dec 5^th, 12^th; Jan (2010) 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23rd, 30th; Feb 6^th,

                                                13^th, 20^th, 27^th, Mar 6th

            Place:                       Hakomi Educational Resources, 2523 West Lunt Chicago, IL 60645

            Cost:             $360 for 12 sessions, $30 per session; or $300 if paid in full at the

                                                beginning.

            Size:              Each group is limited to eight persons.

 

Greg on ’82 BMW R100RT

 

 

Greg Johanson, M.Div., Ph.D. has been a leader in contemplative or mindfulness-based approaches to growth and healing for nearly thirty years as a trainer of Hakomi Therapy and Internal Family Systems, as well as a pastoral psychotherapist. He is well-published in the field, including (with Ron Kurtz) the celebrated Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of the Tao-te ching. He has taught in a number of universities, and is currently Research Faculty with the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

 

 

For more information and to set up an intake interview contact

Hakomi Educational Resources

2523 West Lunt Chicago, IL 60645; (773) 338-9606; gregjohanson.net; [email protected]