About The Course
This course is a series of 8 friendly, weekly online meetings that provide an opportunity for a group of likeminded people to come together and support each other in working through 'Resilient', the highly acclaimed personal development program created by leading psychologist, meditation teacher, and neuroscience expert, Dr Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
(Dr Rick Hanson is a celebrated figure in the field of psychology and personal well-being. He is a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and a New
York Times best-selling
author. Rick is noted for his ground-breaking work in identifying and teaching the core skills required for human well-being, healthy personal psychological growth, and beneficial meditation practice. All his work is grounded in Mindfulness and non-religious Buddhist principles.)
The weekly online course sessions will enable participants to meet together safely and to explore the course work (and meditation exercises) in convenient, easy-to-digest weekly segments – and also to discuss, share and reflect on the experiences they've had over the previous week while actually putting the course work and meditations into practice in their daily lives. These weekly group sessions also include supplementary material and additional teaching that gives extra context, background and explanation to the core course themes.
The weekly meetings are hosted by Shaun (a highly experienced group facilitator and trained Mindfulness teacher who runs our other weekly Mindfulness sessions) and all the course materials (including a copy of the'Resilient' handbook and a audio files of all the meditations used during the course) will be provided, with everyone receiving their own, personal hard copy of the handbook by post in advance of the course beginning. The guided meditations are made available as mp3 files that can be streamed or downloaded, and the weekly course worksheets and additional notes are provided as pdf downloads.
The weekly group meetings will be held over 8 consecutive Monday evenings, all starting at 6.30pm. The first group session is on Monday 19th October 2020 with the final group session on Monday 7th December 2020. The weekly group meetings are currently taking place online due to the coronavirus situation, but they are designed to be fun, friendly, welcoming, informal, and supportive. They use the popular interactive webinar format, Zoom. (You do not need a special app or any special software in order to participate in these online sessions, you just need to be at a computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone that has internet access. The online sessions are all live and fully interactive, with opportunity for social interaction.) A video recording of each group session is made privately available afterwards for participants to refer back to as part of the course resources.
The weekly sessions themselves will last approximately 2 hours. In addition to attending the weekly meetings, participants in the program should expect to also undertake approximately 30-40 minutes of home meditation practice (plus some light reading and other short exercises) every day over the period of the course.
Places are strictly limited – to secure your place please click on the button below and pay your £25 deposit (see 'Costs', below) using any debit or credit card (or a PayPal account if you have one). For further details about the Resilient program itself, see opposite (or further down the screen if you're viewing on a phone or tablet).
