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January 19, 2023


ROSCOMMON Starting Your Sustainable Garden

From 6:00PM to 7:30PM

Learn various methods for creating a moresustainable home garden – this workshop willintroduce you to multiple environmentally-friendlytechniques to incorporate into your backyard.

Location: Gahagan Nature Preserve 209 W Maplehurst Roscommon, MI 48653

Website: www.gahagannature.org/calendar

Phone: 989-275-3217

ROSCOMMON Winter Owl Prowl

From 6:00PM to 7:00PM

Tour the preserve in the evening, in search of someof our favorite night-time critters – owls! Joinbirding expert and Gahagan volunteer, MikePetrucha, as we learn all about these captivatingbirds. Open to all ages.

Location: Gahagan Nature Preserve 209 W Maplehurst Roscommon, MI 48653

Website: www.gahagannature.org/calendar

Phone: 989-275-3217

TC WINTER SESSION Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

From 6:00PM to 8:30PM

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week class that runs from January 19th through March 23rd on Thursday evenings along with a full day Mindfulness Retreat on Saturday March 11th at Whispering Waters in Traverse City.MBSR is an evidence-based, well -researched program that offers secular intensive mindfulness training to assist people with a host of stress-related physical, emotional and psychological conditions. Along with ongoing practice throughout the week, this class trains attention and cultivates awareness, providing one with positive coping tools needed to become strong and resilient in both body and mind.MBSR is a psychoeducational and highly experiential in nature. In addition to didactic teaching, classes are interactive and dynamic, using a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga and the exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling and action. The MBSR program helps us become aware of our habitual patterns of reacting and the self-agency to interrupt this cycle and create more choice in our life. MBSR offers us the potential to relate to ourselves, our experiences and the world around us with fresh perspectives and in new and more meaningful ways.This is a hybrid class being offered both in-person and online via Zoom and each MBSR session includes:An Orientation (1 hour)8 – MBSR Class Sessions (2 ½ hours ea.)Full Day Silent Mindfulness RetreatFree Online Guided MeditationsMBSR was founded by Jon Kabat Zinn in 1979 out of the University of Massachusetts. Since then, there has been a tremendous amount of research coming out of U-Mass, Harvard, Brown, UCLA, Stanford, UW-Madison and numerous other institutions around the world providing insight into, not only how MBSR positively benefits the body and mind, but also how it changes the structure and function of the brain through positive neuroplasticity.This evidenced-based practice, deeply rooted in psychology, science and Far Eastern practices, has over 40 years of research and neuroscience demonstrating the profound ability to positively impact the health and well-being of body and mind. Over 1000 studies have shown that regular practice and mindful living can enhance attention, focus and memory, decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, PTSD, decrease self-harming and addictive behaviors, increase emotional stability and balance, improve mood and optimism, improve communication, social and relational skills, decrease the risk for disease, and reduce symptoms of diseases of both body and mind – enhancing overall immunity.You will find a plethora of this research at the American Mindfulness Research Association www.goamra.orgViktor Frankl, a Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, explains how mindfulness teaches us to pause and bring moment to moment awareness to our thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations in the face of unpleasant stimuli; permitting us to calmly choose to respond thoughtfully instead of simply reacting habitually to life’s inevitable challenges. Most of us, are unaware of this space “between stimulus and response” because we get caught in our habitual patterns of reacting to life.“Between stimulus and response there’s a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl

Location: Mindfulness Center of Northern Michigan, LLC, 934 S Garfield Ave, Suite A, Traverse City, MI 49686

Website: http://www.mindfulnesstc.com

Phone: 2313429634