opportunities for CULTIVATING FULLNESS OF LIFE
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
The Art of Being a Kindful Family
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FREE 6-week Kindness Cultivation Kit for Families! Find it all here:
A child’s life depends on their parents' or caregivers' presence, acceptance, values, faith, and love. Imagine what happens if a child must rely on someone who is absent, neglectful, easily upset, erratic, indifferent, or even abusive. Even if the parent or caregiver has genuine faith, the attempts at faith formation drown in the unhealthy pool of the psychological context.
Mindfulness is a way of being fully present with love. Some scholars even use the word "kindfulness" or "heartfulness" to convey lovingkindness and compassion. Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness can improve well-being, spirituality, and relationships. Families benefit significantly from embodying the values of mindfulness.
The best place to integrate mindfulness principles is in a family where we can support each other. Imagine a family where we are truly present with compassion towards each other. In this fertile ground, everyone in the family can flourish. Mindful Parenting courses aim to create mindful families.
ART OF LIFE: INTERMEDIATE MINDFULNESS course in 4 and 6 sessions
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
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Mindfulness is much more an enlightened way of living and being, as a list of things to do. Cultivating a life where you live truly presents being fully aware with healthy attitudes takes time and practice.
All courses are presented with the utmost respect for your own religious conviction.
The 4-week and 6-week courses were presented six times.
Special 2-part course:
November 14, 2024 @ 6 pm Equanimity
November 21, 2024 @ 6 pm Pain Relief
Register / information: office or 347 328 4037,
As a wifi connection connects us with a vast network of the World Wide Web, recourses, and people, Mindfulness connects us to Life: our lives, others, and the Universe, offering insight, freedom, and wisdom. Mindfulness is a way of being online, living online, intra-connected, flowing with life and love.
Mindfulness is a way of waking up to your own life so that you can fully participate in its flow. It helps us live deeply and wisely, living every moment as it unfolds.
* QiGong is a mindful movement practice like yoga, but it is much easier and safer for all ages.
Recorded Four-week Course
Recorded sessions of a previous version are available here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-_-yvtMZQAfriVFCwg3K6d3cNCUU31p
RECORDED 6-WEEK COURSE
1 The Two Wings of Mindfulness:
The First Wing:
Attention and Awareness
https://youtu.be/Am0M5e02WF0Session
2 The Two Wings of Mindfulness:
The Second Wing:
Compassion and Acceptance
3 Why the Body?
4 Dealing with the Difficult
5 Flourishing Joy in all the Seasons of Life
6 Thriving Relationships and the Secret to Liberation
See the potential benefits of Mindfulness supported by reliable science in the article in the blog.
IN AFRIKAANS
*** FULL 6 Week course in AFRIKAANS can be found here: https://mindfulness.art/lewe
FULLNESS OF LIFE: INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS (1 hour)
FAMILIES flourish when they are fully present with lovingkindness!
DEEP ROOTS: INTENSIVE 8-week MBSR MINDFULNESS course (in-person @ Clifton Park)
Mindfulness is waking up to the life you are living in its full range of experiences. Discover and develop the empowering gifts of awareness and compassion.
In the one-hour introduction, you will learn and experience what mindfulness is, how it cultivates wakefulness, the benefits of mindfulness, and how to come home in your own life.
IN-PERSON
We presented the Introduction to Mindfulness seven times since October 2021 at different venues
RECORDED
A new Introduction to Mindfulness Series Will be available Mid-February
*** The First Fullness of Life Introduction to Mindfulness from 2021 can be seen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kUQtYF8pAiM
*** Mindfulness Introduction focusing on Seniors:
*** Afrikaans Language Version:
(See also the six week Afrikaans Course)
All courses are presented with the utmost respect for your own religious conviction.
DEEP ROOTS: INTENSIVE 8-week MBSR MINDFULNESS course (in-person @ Clifton Park)
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
DEEP ROOTS: INTENSIVE 8-week MBSR MINDFULNESS course (in-person @ Clifton Park)
Mindfulness empowers you to discover and develop Inner Recourses for flourishing life art in all the seasons of life.
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was founded in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Medical Center. It is the most well-researched mindfulness-based stress reduction program worldwide.
The MBSR offers intensive training in formal and informal mindfulness-based practices. It is an approach that combines meditation, dialogue, reflective inquiry, and mindful movement.
Immanuel van Tonder did his post-graduate studies in Mindfulness-Based Interventions at the University of Stellenbosch based on the standardized UMASS MBSR. The IMISA accredited course could have a profound impact on your life!
The MBSR course will be presented in person on eight consecutive Thursdays. The new course is to be announced soon. Contact Immanuel by texting him at 347 328 4037 or immanuelvt@gmail.com for more information or to register. We just wrapped up our 4th group.
The next course will commence in Fall 2024.
COST: CCRC members are welcome to attend without charge. Non-members are invited to donate to CCRC for the course according to their financial situation. (Guideline of $100 proposed) Please don't let the cost stop you from joining this life-changing path.
All courses are presented with the utmost respect for your religious conviction.
"Being in the 8 week mindfulness course was life-changing. The extraordinary teaching, the group's support, and home practice helped me develop the discipline of daily meditation. I'm experiencing more serenity, contentment, and joy. I look forward to continuing this journey with Immanuel."
MINDFUL HIKES & RETREATS
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
Several Retreats and Mindfulness Hikes in Nature are offered that differ in length and levels of experience with meditation and silence. Some of the options are thematic retreats, silent retreats with guidance, nature retreats, and reading retreats.
MINDFULNESS HIKE
I lead the previous Mindful Hike at Moreau Lake State Park.We did Walking Meditation, Lake Meditation, Mountain Meditation, and probably also a Tree meditation.
*** Pictures of our first Mindful Hike: https://www.facebook.com/747872455278433/posts/4437748529624122/
*** Revitalizing 3-day Mindfulness Retreat. Dates to be confirmed in due time.
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
DOT B: Life-changing Mindfulness for Middle and High School students - 9-week course
.b, pronounced [dot-be], is the UK’s leading mindfulness curriculum for 11-18-year-olds in schools. .b stands for ‘stop and be,’ a simple practice at the heart of this ten lesson course.
Each .b lesson (between 40 minutes and 1 hour) is expertly crafted for use in the classroom to teach a distinct mindfulness skill.
The .b materials are designed to engage even the most skeptical of young minds.
*** The PawsB course was presented for two years at the Summer Vacation Bible School. In total more than 50 kids attended.
*** We presented the DOT B MISP course for high school youth at 1010 Route 146 Clifton Park.
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
Paws b [pause be] is a leading mindfulness curriculum for children aged 7 -11 in schools and was initially developed in collaboration with experienced primary school teachers, senior mindfulness teachers, and researchers at the UK Mindfulness in Schools Project.
The lessons are flexible and varied and can be taught as twelve 30 to 60-minute lessons or grouped into pairs and delivered over six sessions. A significant body of evidence from research projects ‘demonstrate evidence of a significant positive child outcome through an efficacy study’ and ‘additional consistent positive evidence from other evaluations’ .
Imagine having crucial life skills from PRE_SCHOOL age (3-13 yr)
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
The Breathing Buddy Course is for children aged 3-13 and parents who want to support children in a skillful way of relating to life.
A very interactive course presented by Immanuel full of fun and energy. Children learn powerful but simple skills to feel safe, learn self-regulation of emotions and empower them at a very young age. Based on the sound science of breathing.
A safe space for Mindfulness-based CONSULTATION
PAWS B: Empower elementary school students with skills: August 2024
Taylormade Mindfulness skills for your organization
What about an optimal life? We tend to think of and focus on problems only. In the Mindfulness-Based Intervervention sessions, we discover and develop your resources for you to flourish in life. Inspirational messages and reminders between sessions to motivate you. Individual confidential mindfulness-based counseling via zoom, my office, or in the comfort of your own home.
Taylormade Mindfulness skills for your organization
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Taylormade Mindfulness skills for your organization
A two-hour course teaching mindfulness skills to Real Estate Agents for managing their inner world and presence in the midst of their unique challenges and opportunities. The program can be tailored for any business context.
Recent presentations were also done for:
- ExeControl 2023 (Stress in the Workplace)
- Clifton Park Neighbors Connecting (3X)
- WSWHE Boces Teachers and Therapists
- Care Links
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
A Deepening of Faith through Contemplative Spirituality Series will be offered in 2022.
Follow an Introduction to Contemplative Spirituality here: https://youtu.be/5NPtCe1Vxzo
Recorded Wednesday Contemplative Worship sessions are available here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-_-yvtMZQDfsdpVM9ezubeeOUdce4hM
There is a deep resonance between the principles of Mindfulness and Christian Contemplative Traditions. Where the two streams meet, there is profound enrichment.
Walk with an experienced "Soul Friend": SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANIMENT.
Having a "soul friend" walking the spiritual path with you can be deeply enriching. Through the ages, people experienced profound spiritual growth with a skilled Spiritual Director.
MINDFULNESS IN AFRIKAANS
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Spiritual growth through Mindful Contemplative CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
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*** A FREE Afrikaans course is available online: (Mindfulness: 'n Volbewuste Vervullende Lewe! Hoekom Mindfulness? ) Find the recorded video of the zoom presentation on Mindfulness.art YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/4y0TYQij3HY.
*** Die LiefdeVOLbewuste Lewenskuns kursus (MINDFULNESS IN AFRIKAANS) is nou aanlyn beskikbaar! Volg dit teen jou eie pas en jou eie prys! Die kursus wat oorsponklik op Zoom aangebied is, is onmiddelik tot jou beskikking!Volg hierdie skakel vir volledige kursus: https://mindfulness.art/lewe
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