RiverheadSaturday, December 17th
9:00am-12:00pm |
Great RiverSaturday, December 17th
1:00pm-4:00pm |
WestburySunday, December 18th
10:00am-1:00pm |
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Title: Mindfulness: Shifting from Surviving to Thriving
Overview Mindfulness meditation is a form of mental fitness. It is a practice we can utilize to optimize our brain in ways that improve our health, focus, clarity, relaxation, productivity and joy. There are thousands of research articles demonstrating the efficacy of mindfulness in reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and improving overall wellbeing, and it is used as a evidence-based practice in healthcare, education, and business. |
Workshop Learning Objectives
- Explore what mindfulness meditation is and why it might be worth cultivating
- Review the relevant research supporting mindfulness
- Learn how to shift from living on “automatic pilot” to living with greater awareness, presence, and intentionality
- Learn to work with difficult, self-defeating, and ruminating thoughts
- Learn to communicate and listen with greater mindfulness to family and friends.
- Learn to stop your work life from bleeding into your personal life, and vice versa.
- Identify the root cause of stress and how mindfulness helps us manage it
- Learn how to practice a variety of different mindfulness meditations, and develop and sustain a meditation practice moving forward
Listen to what participants have said about this workshop....
This workshop was life-changing. I cannot believe how much I learned in 3 hours.
M.R.
M.R.
I've been practicing meditation for years and now have an entirely new appreciation for the practice.
Thank you for rekindling my love for meditation.
J.T.
Thank you for rekindling my love for meditation.
J.T.
I was skeptical to take this time out of my day. I'm so glad I did.
It was the best investment of time and money I've made in the last 5 years.
L.M.
It was the best investment of time and money I've made in the last 5 years.
L.M.
About the INstructor
Cory is the founder of the Long Island Center for Mindfulness. He has extensive professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Schools, Search Inside Yourself, and Breathworks Chronic Pain, and in 2012 spent six months in silent meditation living as a Buddhist monk in Burma. He is a certified hatha yoga instructor and an Integrative Health Coach trained through Duke Integrative Medicine.
Cory currently serves as faculty at Columbia Teachers College where he teaches mindfulness to school leaders and principals, and is an assistant instructor for the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) at the University of Pennsylvania. Cory has lectured and taught mindfulness for a number of Fortune 500 Companies such as Prudential, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson, and Colgate; Universities such as NYU, Wharton Business School, Columbia and Dartmouth; and many different schools and hospitals. He regularly appears on the Dr. Oz show as a guest expert in the topic of mindfulness meditation. You can learn more about Cory on his website at: www.LImindfulness.com
Cory currently serves as faculty at Columbia Teachers College where he teaches mindfulness to school leaders and principals, and is an assistant instructor for the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) at the University of Pennsylvania. Cory has lectured and taught mindfulness for a number of Fortune 500 Companies such as Prudential, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson, and Colgate; Universities such as NYU, Wharton Business School, Columbia and Dartmouth; and many different schools and hospitals. He regularly appears on the Dr. Oz show as a guest expert in the topic of mindfulness meditation. You can learn more about Cory on his website at: www.LImindfulness.com