Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Stressors are a common fact of work and life and have come to cause substantial costs to individuals and organizations in the form of reduced well-being and lost productivity (sick days, reduced performance). Drawing on decades of research on MBSR, in this course participants learn how to reduce and prevent stress through formal and informal mindfulness practices. A mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction emphasizes the role of awareness and acceptance in facing stressors. Rather than trying to make stressors disappear from life, or controlling them entirely, participants learn how to become more aware of the stressors in their (work) lives and how these stressors impact them. Building on this awareness and acceptance, and with the help of formal and informal mindfulness practices, participants then learn to make wiser choices and develop thinking styles, behaviours and habits that are conducive to stress reduction and prevention, and to living and working more productively.

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