Mindfulness course in English

in Amsterdam West & Online

With 8 private sessions Mindfulness course you will learn and experience the basic elements of this course, including specific meditation. It will improve your concentration, attention and awareness for the important things in your life. It helps to reduce your stress and worrying, anxiety or mood swings.
The training contains practical exercises and meditations that offers you the tools for agency and choice.

When life is tough, stressful or traumatic there are still possibilities to take care of yourself. With my background in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness I can adjust and enrich the basic Mindfulness course and meditations with person-oriented stress-reduction and stress-prevention tools. To reduce stress is just one thing that is important to develop your skills in resilience and turning yourself towards more fulling things in your life.

What is Mindfulness and MBCT?

“Mindfulness reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion and promote genuine joie de vivre.

It’s the kind of happiness that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life can throw at you with new courage.

MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.

MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and it is recommended by the UK’s National Institute of Clinical Excellence – in other words, it works.
More importantly it also works for people who are not depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world.

MINDFULNESS focuses on promoting joy and peace rather than banishing unhappiness. It’s precisely focused to help ordinary people boost their happiness and confidence levels whilst also reducing anxiety, stress and irritability.”

(Source: Book ‘Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world’ – M. Williams & D. Penman)

Mindfulness format: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) & Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Format: individual sessions, tailor suited to you

Start: at any time; Monday afternoons, Wednesday afternoons, Friday afternoons

Price: see page Tarieven

Location: Amsterdam-OW, or online with Zoom or Teams

Trainer: Carolina van Haperen, licensed Mindfulness & ACT trainer

Insurance options: if you have extra coverage in your insurance it is possible that the sessions are (partly) covered. I can help you in giving you more advice in this.

Trainer Carolina is affiliated with VMBN (cat.1 trainer), ACBS(BeNe), LVPW, RBCZ, SCAG, ACBS(BeNe).