Mindfulness Workshops in Eemnes
During the year Hans Kloosterman gives a series of 3 Mindfulness workshops. Mindfulness is learning to be fully present in the moment, without judgment, disturbing emotions and thoughts. Mindfulness is the 7th step from the eightfold path to enlightenment of the Buddha. The Buddha lived around 450 years before Christ and studied how the suffering of people can be reduced and happiness can be increased.
Objective: to broaden awareness, increase self-awareness and, through transformation techniques, offer tools that increase self-steering capacity, reduce suffering and increase happiness. Self-awareness and happiness are strongly interconnected.
The workshops can be followed separately or in its totality.
The awareness process takes place in the order of: AWARENESS, ACCEPTANCE, TRANSFORMATION. The workshops are also given in this order. Each workshop is supplemented with Avatar material from our hostess Deirdre.
1st serie (Eemnes);
Thursday 22 februari : Mindfulness and AWARENESS (sign up)
Thursday 22 maart : Mindfulness and ACCEPTANCE (sign up)
Thursday 19 april : Mindfulness and TRANSFORMATION (sign up)
Location: d'oude Varkensschuur - Meentweg 47 in Eemnes.
Time: 19.30 to 22.00
Price: 40 euros per workshop (to be paid cash) including coffee, tea and something tasty
Workshop Mindfulness and AWARENESS
Objective: we are our thoughts. Raise awareness on a physical, emotional and mental level. Recognizing the 5 obstacles and 5 poisons in the mind ..
How: treatment of the first teaching of the Buddha, the four noble truths: There is suffering, there is an origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, the way to the end of suffering. Treatment of the eightfold path to enlightenment. Techniques: via seat meditations, the lying body scan and hatha-yoga. In addition, it is mapped:
- who am I, what can I do and what do I want?
- positive thinking / behavioral patterns and negative thinking-behavior patterns.
Date: 22 February 2018
Workshop Mindfulness and ACCEPTANCE
Objective: to become aware of the thinking / behavioral patterns that you find difficult to accept in yourself and in others.
How? Buddhist concepts that are treated: as interdependence, transience, emptiness, disruptive emotions and karma. The 6 to be developed virtues (paramitas) can help you to give certain thinking and behavior patterns a place. The theory is interspersed with hatha yoga and concentration (shamatha) and insight meditations (vipassana).
As a special part, the heart meditation is done on the basis of the Heart Sutra of The Buddha on receiving wisdom.
You will identify what you need to be happy on a physical, emotional and mental level. In the heart, emotions like: acceptance, gratitude, love, compassion, friendship, connectedness, forgiveness, pain and sorrow, vulnerability, wisdom. How do we find a good balance in relation to the other ?. What is needed for that?
Date: 22 March 2018
Workshop Mindfulness and TRANSFORMATION
Objective: to transform disruptive negative emotions into positive emotions. Increasing virtues.
How: working with Buddhist techniques as working with dualisms, the 4 transcendental virtues (love, compassion, joy and equanimity), the breathing technique Tonglen, tranquility meditation (shamatha), insight meditation (vipassana) and samadhi (meditation on the void).
Date: 19 April 2018
