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Return to Mindfulness: 8 Skills for Clarity, Care & Real-World Change
September 18, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating until October 9, 2024
$200 – $700
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Feeling overwhelmed and disconnected in today’s fast-paced world? Longing for a deeper sense of meaning and purpose?
You’re not alone.
This transformative 8-week workshop, based on the bestselling book “Return to Mindfulness,” offers you a systematic yet playful pathway to reclaim your inner peace and make a positive impact on the world around you.
Develop Essential Mindfulness Skills:
Dr. Shalini Bahl’s groundbreaking methods will help you bridge the gap between meditation and real-world mindfulness, empowering you to:
*Cultivate Awareness: Recognize automatic reactions and choose more intentional responses.
*Practice Compassion: Shift from judgment to understanding, both towards yourself and others.
*Embrace Curiosity: Seek new perspectives and break free from limiting beliefs.
*Channel Mindful Energy: Take aligned action, even when it challenges your comfort zone.
*Choose Appreciative Joy: Counteract negativity with gratitude and a more balanced outlook.
*Find Inner Calm: Let go of attachments and create space for peace and clarity.
*Sharpen Your Focus: Prioritize what truly matters amidst distractions and overwhelm.
*Cultivate Equanimity: Respond to life’s ups and downs with balance and resilience.
What’s Included:
1. A free copy of “Return to Mindfulness”
2. Access to the “Return to Mindfulness” digital app with 48 daily reminders and 4-6 minutes guidance to foster real-world mindfulness
3. Lifetime access to an online learning community with 48+ meditations, prompts, and a space to share your experiences
4. Weekly live classes with Dr. Shalini Bahl, a certified mindfulness trainer, researcher, and experienced leader
5. Ongoing support and Q&A with Dr. Bahl throughout the 8 weeks
Course Curriculum
Pre-Workshop Introduction on August 14 or 19, 2024
Week 1 – Awareness: See with Fresh Eyes
Week 2 – Compassion: Seek to Understand and Interbe
Week 3 – Curiosity: Ask What, Not Why
Week 4 – Energy: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Week 5 – Appreciative Joy: Meet Life with Love and Gratitude
Week 6 – Inner Calm: Empty the Cup
Week 7 – Focus: Choose Which Wolf to Feed
Week 8: Equanimity: Ride the Waves of Change with Grace
Silent Retreat on Saturday, Oct 19, 2024 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.
Who Is This For?
This program is for you if:
-You are feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
-You would like to cultivate the skills to navigate change and challenges with ease, clarity, and creativity.
-You have been practicing mindfulness but feel stuck in habitual patterns of reactivity.
-You would like more energy and joy in your life.
-You would like to be able to integrate mindfulness into everyday life.
-You took the mindfulness quiz and would like to cultivate the eight mindfulness skills.
-You have been meditating but feel that something is missing in your practice.
-You want to continue to deepen your experience and practice of mindfulness.
Praise for Return to Mindfulness
It is full of practical, playful steps to systematically integrate mindfulness into your daily life, ways that Shalini herself has learned while practicing mindfulness as teacher and governmental leader.
—Mirabai Bush
Author and Co-creator of Search Inside Yourself
Once or twice in a lifetime, you may come across a book that can change you in a most positive way. Return has this magic and more.
—Ron Hill, Ph.D
Dean’s Professor of Marketing and Public Policy
“Return to Mindfulness” is a mindful companion for navigating the complexities of life. Shalini offers a refreshing and practical approach to mindfulness. Whether you’re seeking clarity with the eight mindfulness skills or embarking on a systematic journey to build your capacity for real-world mindfulness, this book is your trusted guide for joyful living and empowered leadership.
—Chade-Meng Tan,
International bestselling author of Search Inside Yourself and Buddhism for All.
A Return to Mindfulness is what we need in this moment. Shalini offers a profoundly thoughtful guide and reminder for us to be and see one another as deeply human.
The 8 mindfulness skills – awareness, compassion, curiosity, energy, appreciative joy, inner calm, focus, and equanimity – are shared with ease and clarity so that each of us as leaders can more skillfully navigate division, conflict, and competing needs as we extend compassion and take wise action that inspires new ways of being and thinking that inform how we do what we do. Return calls us to co-create the conditions and solutions that help bring people together, find common ground, and flourish.
The beauty of Return is that it applies to all that we do at home, at school, in business, in politics, and more. Everywhere we are, Return should be.
—Michelle Lopes Maldonado,
Virginia State Representative and Founder of Lucenscia
Return to Mindfulness masterfully articulates the barriers we all face in being mindful during our everyday lives. Whether you’re a leader or seeker, this book will serve you as a wise guide—a calm, clear whisper in a noisy, distracted world.
—Amishi Jha, PhD,
Neuroscientist and best-selling author of Peak Mind.
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