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beyond beginners

Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone frame by frame – Tuesdays

April 9, 2024 @ 8:00 am - May 28, 2024 @ 5:00 pm BST

£240

Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone frame by frame is a new eight-week course (previous called Frame by Frame) developed by Mark Williams and colleagues, designed for those who have already completed a mindfulness-based program and want to explore mindfulness more deeply. It is informed by recent psychological findings that reveal that every waking moment, our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone’. Feeling tone is the moment-by-moment ‘read-out’ of how much a sensation, thought or emotion feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neither. Based on this moment-by-moment ‘read out’, the body allocates its resources as it gears up for real or imagined action. This can prepare us well for action, but it can also put us at risk of becoming exhausted without our realising it.

Ancient traditions saw feeling tone (vedana) as a fundamental element of every moment of experience and a central aspect of mindfulness practice. Learning specific practices to help us become aware of feeling tone allows us to see clearly the very instant where we become caught up in pursuing or rejecting something and become entangled in a web of emotional distress. Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein has said that mindfulness of feeling tone is one of the master keys that both reveals and unlocks the deepest patterns of our conditioning.

During these eight weeks you will learn meditations that prepare you for, then help you tune in to feeling tone frame by frame. This provides an opportunity to see more clearly both the tipping points for distress and exhaustion, and also how to flourish by freeing yourself to appreciate life again, even in the midst of difficulty.

This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological condition. If you are currently experiencing a severe problem it would be best to sign up for this training once the worst is past and you have recovered some stability.

Full Dates: Tuesdays: 09/04, 16/04, 23/04, 30/04, 07/05, 14/05, 21/05, 28/05, (reserve: 04/06) at 08:00-10:00 UK time.

Event Details

Start:
April 9, 2024 @ 8:00 am BST
End:
May 28, 2024 @ 5:00 pm BST
Cost:
£240
Event Category:
Mode of Attendance:
Online
Event Mindfulness Approach:
Mindfulness for life (MBCT-L)

Partner Profile

Oxford Mindfulness Foundation

Oxford Mindfulness Foundation

Registered Jun 2020
Training Partner

Bio

The Oxford Mindfulness Foundation is internationally recognised for mindfulness teaching and training. We collaborate with a number of international organisations to achieve our vision of a world in which there is universal access to mindfulness and a greater understanding and acceptability of the impact of mindful behaviour.

Contact

admin@oxfordmindfulness.org

Location

Oxford, United Kingdom