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Refresh and deepen your stress reduction practice in this eight-week course led by David Weinberg, senior StressCare teacher.
We will practice simple, refined meditation that brings calmness and clarity; mindful movement to reflect our aspirations for balance and openness; and other exercises that enlarge our capacity to enjoy everyday life. Basic principles will be reviewed.
New exercises will be introduced to cultivate self-understanding and compassion, including
- how values can motivate meaningful action;
- how resources can encourage willingness to enact values;
- learning what can (and can't) be controlled in daily life;
- how to proceed with obstacles; and
- how to achieve wholesome acceptance, a realistic view of self, and more successful relations with others.
- You will be encouraged to develop your home practice with David's guidance and the support of the group.
The course includes a silent 6-hour retreat. You will be encouraged to develop your home practice with David's guidance and the support of the group.
The course will be held on eight consecutive Wednesday evenings, April 28 - June 16, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, at 3030 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. A silent 6-hour retreat will be held on Saturday, June 5. The fee is $295 and includes all meetings and course materials. To register, call David at (510) 540-8928 or email david@stresscaretraining.org.
This graduate eight-week course, led by David Weinberg, senior StressCare teacher, emphasizes continuity of formal practice - sitting meditation, yoga, walking meditation - with the support of the group and, especially, your practice partner.
The pace of this course is deliberate, not hurried. Much of the unfamiliar terminology and the paradoxical exercises introduced in the previous course - AIS I - are given time to percolate and be absorbed here. It's hard to do this work alone; it's also easy to slip back into old habits of thought and behavior; so we do this together!
New exercises will be introduced to
- loosen the hold of habitual thinking and feeling that inhibit personal choice and desired action;
- bring the fruits of investigation, acceptance and mindfulness into the realm of valued action in everyday life;
- cultivate willingness to act in valued directions; and
- realize a larger-than-personal dimension of practice, healing and continuing growth.
This is truly coming home as a mature adult, where action and values align and everyday life - with its limitations and problems - is vivid and enlivening! One enjoys independence and inter-dependency.
The course will be held on eight consecutive Thursday evenings, April 29 - June 17, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, at 3030 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. A silent 6-hour retreat will be held on Saturday, June 5. The fee is $295 and includes all meetings and course materials. To register, call David at (510) 540-8928 or email david@stresscaretraining.org.
This third eight-week course in a series led by David Weinberg,, senior StressCare teacher, brings together and integrates all of the skills and perspectives you've learned since embarking on the path of mindfulness practice:
- practicing mindfulness alone and with others - sitting meditation, yoga, walking meditation - as well as mindfulness of everyday life;
- acceptance - rather than avoidance - of thoughts, feelings and sensations as they arise in the present moment;
- constructive distancing from the content of thoughts and feelings - freeing yourself from the domination of fixed beliefs and expectations;
- maintaining contact with authentic values and resources; and
- sustaining valued activity for a full life.
New aspects of practice will be introduced in this course:
- self as expression of the whole and self as individual - freedom from the conceptualized self - being a person;
- compassionate intention and compassionate activity based on values, commitment and willingness;
- responsibility - response-ability-as life-long activity;
- continuous time - freedom from the burden of conventional "clock" time; and
- sacred space and ritual - rehearsing and actualizing commitment and wholeness in a world of limitations and constraints.
The course will be held on eight consecutive Wednesday evenings, September 29 - November 17, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, at 3030 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. A silent 6-hour retreat will be held on Saturday, November 6. The fee is $295 and includes all meetings and course materials.
To register, call David at (510) 540-8928 or email david@stresscaretraining.org.
Join us in small groups as we come together for mutual support and inspiration in maintaining an ongoing mindfulness practice. Graduates of the 8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course or those with equivalent meditation experience are warmly invited to join one of our small practice groups. Your sincere desire to practice new ways of being in the world is the precious key to our work together. Steady home practice is the thread that deepens our lives - we ask that you are willing to work steadily!
Groups are facilitated by Karin Pfluger, StressCare instructor. We open our meetings with formal practice. We share our experiences and discuss a current practice theme, poem or reading. We come together to encourage steady practice and to realize that none of us does this work alone.
We place principles before personalities and work with each other as brothers and sisters on the path of waking up to our lives, shedding old notions of who we are, and fearlessly examining the illusory nature of self and suffering. This means we share our experiences with obstacles, insights, and learning; and how we work with our experience of the 'full catastrophe' using the wisdom practices of mindfulness.
Please join us in the powerful work of transforming our way in the world!
What is a practice pod? Our small groups - or pods - consist of about four to seven students who register for a six- to twelve-week practice series. Pod size and duration may vary somewhat depending on interest.
To inquire about existing practice pods or to set up a new one, call Karin at 510-843-1575 or email karin@stresscaretraining.org. The fee for a practice series varies with the number of participants and duration. Class meetings are held near the Ashby Alta Bates Campus in South Berkeley.
A continuing course/seminar in the Zen style led by David Weinberg and senior students for people who have completed the first eight-week stress reduction course or who have equivalent meditation experience. It includes guided and silent meditation, mindful movement, one-on-one meetings with David, guest speakers from various meditation traditions, study of contemporary and traditional texts, and retreats. Ocean Sangha presents Beginning Zen to introduce Zen practice and perspectives especially for newcomers. Ocean Sangha is a sister organization of StressCare, but is not affiliated. Ocean Sangha is held on all Monday evenings except holidays, 7:00 PM at 3030 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA. Please contact Lishelle Blakemore at LishelleBlakemore@yahoo.com for more information. (Ocean Sangha is a sister organization of StressCare, but is not affiliated.)
Same as the retreat day for the first eight-week stress
reduction course. All graduates are invited. Location
and time: 2001 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA, on four SATURDAYS,
March 13, June 5, August 21 and November 6, 10 AM to 4PM. No fee.
Call 510-540-8928 to say you're coming.
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