Mindfulness Starts Here!
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News
Congratulations to our newest graduates of our M4 programs. It was a wonderful 8 weeks and the feedback we received was enlightening! Thank you for your commitment and hard work!
After much anticipation - OMC is now offering two 8-week courses on Mindful Self-Compassion. Self Compassion is not about self pity or self-indulgence. It is about being happy and healthy in the long term. Learn to turn towards yourself so that you can be kind-hearted as you go through your life experiences and not let your inner critic have the last word.
Program details are posted here
Our Information Sessions for our upcoming January-February classes begin November 18th and will run once a week until December 17th. Contact Hillary at mindfulomc@gmail.com to receive a list of all the dates and to reserve your spot.
New Retreat - OMC is hosting a 5 day intensive Self-Compassion retreat at the Galilee Center from April 19-24. Contact us for more details.
Our
Day of Mindfulness for the winter session will be on Saturday, February 7th at St. Paul's University. Everyone is welcome to join us.
Mindfulness in Our Community
Lynette and Frank have been busy giving well received workshops at the Federal Government, the Cornwall Community Hospital and Maplesoft.
Our colleagues at
Mindfulness Ottawa are offering a workshop on addictions through The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center.
From our colleague, Dr. L. Karos: Please please please take a moment (literally a minute of your time) to register and vote to lend your support to Compass and the teens it serves. Winning is based on votes so you can make a huge difference with a few key strokes and a click of a button to help them win. Here is the link: http://learningproject.cst.org/ideas/376
ASMH JOURNAL CLUB
Longing for Happiness: Spiritual and Theological Perspectives
A film presentation with Dr. Fabrice Blée
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
The Spirituality Centre at The Royal, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario
Books of Interest
Living Well with Pain and Illness by Vidyalmala Burch
Practicing Happiness by Ruth Baer
A Poem
"Important"
"We hurry through the so-called boring things
in order to attend to that which we deem
more important, interesting.
Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that
everything in every moment is "essential"
and that nothing at all is "important."
By Helen M. Luke
