The core of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program is mindfulness meditation and its integration into the rich potential of everyday life. This course provides a supportive and therapeutic environment where participants can learn to:

• Recognize signs of stress
• Learn relaxation techniques
• Discover how thoughts can help or hinder stress management
• Cope more effectively with stressful situations
• Decrease psychological suffering
• Reduce pain and cope with pain that may not go away
• Develop new responses to sleep disturbances and fatigue
• Communicate effectively
• Build self-confidence
• Tap into greater energy, well being, enthusiasm and appreciation of life