Group Courses
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If you are curious about mindfulness but are not yet ready to commit to an 8-week program, this program will give you a broader understanding of the subject.
The program is not didactic but follows an experiential learning method. During the program, participants gain new skills with 1-hour meetings every week. Participants are expected to practice for an average of 10 minutes 6 days a week. Practice contents change every week.
Course Program
Session 1- Consciously Paying Attention with Care and Curiosity
Session 2- Perspective Learning a New Way of Being
Session 3- Responding not Reacting
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) is an eight-week program that takes participants on a journey. It aims to develop new skills and attitudes for life through formal and everyday practices. Each week, participants discover new ways of relating to the inner world and experience bringing attitudes of curiosity and friendliness to external challenges. Research shows that mindfulness practitioners cope more effectively with stress and anxiety, improve their decision-making skills and reduce their emotional reactivity.
The program is introduced with a meeting before the program. After the people who want to participate fill in the application form, a 15-minute individual meeting is held with each of them and the suitability of the program is decided. The program follows the experiential learning method, not didactic. During the program, participants gain new skills with 2 hour and 15 minute meetings every week. Participants are expected to do these practices for an average of 40 minutes 6 days a week. Practice contents change every week. It is recommended to practice mindfulness in order to bring it to life.
The Practice Day (retreat) lasts approximately 6 hours and offers participants the opportunity for a longer practice period. The trainer guides the learned practices throughout the program.
(You can think of this day as a gift to yourself.)
Course Program
Session 1- Awakening from Autopilot
Session 2- Another Way of Being: Keeping the Body in Mind
Session 3- Collecting the Scattered Mind
Session 4- Recognizing Reactivity
Session 5- Allowing and letting go
Session 6- Responding Skillfully: Thoughts Are Not Facts
Practice Day
Session 7- How do I take the best care of myself?
Session 8- Mindfulness for Life
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This program is based on Mindfulness: Mindfulness – Finding Peace in a Frantic World. It is a highly accessible, engaging and practical introduction to mindfulness. It is a program developed by the Oxford Centre for Mindfulness that teaches mindfulness skills and how to use them to improve well-being and resilience to stress. It has been found to be effective with adults in the workplace, university students and school teachers. The themes of the course include: waking up to the life you have, collecting the scattered mind, relating differently to thoughts and worries, practicing kindness and nurturing activities. This course is for anyone who wants a structured, practical and highly accessible introduction to mindfulness. It is suitable for anyone new to mindfulness, anyone who has tried mindfulness practices or perhaps read a book and wants to.
The program follows the method of experiential learning, not didactic. During the program, 75-minute meetings are held every week to teach participants new skills. This time is planned to be done during breaks in the institutions. Participants are expected to do these practices for 20 minutes every day for 6 days a week. The practice content changes every week. It is recommended to practice mindfulness in order to put it into practice.
Course Program
Session 1- Awakening from Autopilot
Session 2- Knowing Another Way: Keeping the Body in Mind
Session 3- Mouse in the Labyrinth: Mindfulness in Daily Life
Session 4- Relating to Thoughts and Concerns in a Different Way
Session 5- Approaching the Challenge: From Reacting to Responding
Session 6- Courtesy Work: Stuck in the past?
Session 7- When did you stop dancing?
Session 8- Your True and Precious Life
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‘Developed by Prof. Mark Williams and Danny Penman, it is an advanced eight-week program designed for people who have already participated in a mindfulness-based program (such as MBSR, MBCT or MBCT-L).
Special meditations each week teach participants to notice with finer attention the “feeling tone” that is always present in the background of every experience – the perception of experiences as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. In this way, participants develop the ability both to recognize earlier when challenging feelings and thoughts arise and to respond to them with a new openness and kindness.
The program is based on experiential learning. It proceeds in 2-hour meetings each week and participants are expected to practice individually for an average of 40 minutes on the other days of the week.
An introductory meeting is held prior to participation and short one-on-one meetings are held with each participant who fills out the application form and the suitability of the program is evaluated together.
This program is for those who want to take their mindfulness practice deeper into daily life and strengthen their capacity to appreciate life even in moments of difficulty.’*
online and face-to-face Approaches
How to Access Mental Health and Well-being with Mindfulness
New Programs and Dates
Introducing Mindfulness
Turkish
The 3-week introductory training developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Center starts in the fall.
Mindfulness for Life
Turkish
The ‘Mindfulness for Life’ course, is developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Center, where we learn basic mindfulness skills for 8 weeks, starts in the fall.
Deeper Mindfulness
Turkish
The 8-week training developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Center, where we explore the tone of feeling, starts in the fall.
If you are looking for an English course, you can create your group of 6-15 people and contact me. I would be happy to teach your group any of those courses, or we can create a new curriculum tailored to your needs.