Course Description
Getting through life is challenging. We face daily madness in managing our work and family, and often, we neglect our personal wellbeing. This could in turn, adversely affect our relationship with our family and reduce our productivity at work.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction is an evidence-based approach that aims to help you reduce and manage your stressors. Rather than suppressing or forcefully overcome the challenges in your life, the programme will guide your exploration of these stressors to gain insights into how the stresses are sustained in your life.
The programme adopts mindfulness-based strategies and practices to cultivate a mindset of openness, acceptance, and self-compassion. It will equip you with the skills to distinguish between your thoughts and your reality in the “here and now”.
Ultimately, the aim of MBSR is to help you sharpen your sense of being, with which, can allow you to make wiser choices and develop thinking styles, behaviors and habits that are conducive to stress reduction and prevention, and to leading life more fully.
Trainer
Michelle Mah is the founder of Rebalance Wellness, and a qualified mindfulness and wellbeing trainer. She has studied and trained with the world’s most heavily researched secular mindfulness, EQ & wellness programmes and have worked with a variety of clients from corporate organisations, educational institutions to healthcare workers.
Her certifications include: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Schools Educator, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute – SIYLI (an emotional intelligence programme first developed at Google) and Mindful Self-Compassion.
Learn more about Michelle here.
Learning Outcomes
The course consists of weekly 2-hour sessions spread across 8 weeks. There will also be a 6-hour mindfulness meditation outside of the weekly classes.
The duration is to help learners cultivate and develop mindfulness practice habits.
At the end of the course, you will be able to
- Understand the difference between stressors and stress, consequences of stress, and different ways of reacting towards stressors;
- Learning both informal and formal mindfulness practices
- Learn about what mindfulness is, including the relevance of attention, intention, and attitudes of mindfulness
- Experience a variety of formal and informal mindfulness practices to increase awareness and reduce and prevent stress
- Develop a personal practice of mindfulness
Duration
16 hours Zoom/F2F learning, 6 hours of mindfulness retreat, 1 hour reflexive exercise and conversation
*Please note that a minimum of 8 participants are required for class to proceed
Upcoming Schedule
Month | Dates |
|---|---|
Apr 23 | Course dates: April - 11 (F2F, 0900-1100), 18 (Zoom,0900-1100), 25 (Zoom, 0900-1100) May - 2 (Zoom, 0900-1100), 9 (Zoom, 0900-1100), 16 (Zoom, 0900-1100), 23 (Zoom, 0900-1100), 30 (0900-1100) |
Jun 23 | Course dates: June - 4th (F2F, 2000-2200), 11th, 18th, 25th June (Zoom, 2000-2200) July - 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th July (Zoom, 2000-2200) Mindfulness Retreat (F2F) |
Other Course Information
Target Audience
Anyone with an interest to cultivate mindfulness to improve personal emotional and mental wellbeing using evidence-based mindfulness approaches.
Certification
Learners who have successfully completed and passed the assessment will receive a Statement of Attainment (SOA) issued by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG).
Language of Instruction
This is an experiential-based programme that will require learners to partake in mindfulness-based activities.
Course Fees and Subsidies
Course support period: 16 May 2022 – 15 May 2024
Employer-sponsored (SME)
Nett Fee after training grant subsidy: $240.00
Employer-sponsored (non-SME, Age<40 yr old)
Nett Fee after training grant subsidy: $400.00
Employer-sponsored (non-SME, Age>40 yr old)
Nett Fee after training grant subsidy: $240.00
Self-sponsored (Age<40 yr old)
Nett Fee after training grant subsidy: $400.00
Self-sponsored (Age>40 yr old)
Nett Fee after training grant subsidy: $240.00
Non-Singaporean
Full fee: $800
For Self-sponsored individuals not applying on SkillsFuture Credit, instalment payments are available via Atome and Grab Paylater. Please contact our administrator during sign-up.
This course is organised in collaboration with Environiche LLP, an approved training organisation under Singapore Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ).
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