8-week mindfulness course

Name: 8-week mindfulness course
Start: 2025-09-29T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Avenue de Tervueren 81, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

Schedule

Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Avenue de Tervueren 81, 1200 Brussels, Belgium | Etterbeek, BU

Inperson 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course
Mondays from 19.00 to 21.30 CET, starting on 7 April 2025
Course dates: 07.4., 14.4. , 28.4., 12.5. , 26.5, 02.6., 16.6, 23.6.
Includes a Mindfulness Practice Day on Saturday 7 June (see details below)
with certified Mindfulness Teacher Rainer Arndt
Overcoming stress and burnout
Do you find yourself sometimes wanting to respond to situations with choice rather than reacting automatically? Or perhaps you’d like to learn how to recognise the signs of stress in your body, or more skilfully deal with challenging patterns of emotions and thoughts?
If this sounds like something you can relate to, then this course might be for you!
This eight-week programme has been designed to help you learn how to pay attention to all of your experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant. In paying attention and noticing it’s possible to bring yourself out of auto-pilot and find nourishing ways to include a sense of mindfulness to your daily life.
Developing your capacity to cope
It is important to recognise when you are in overwhelm mode. And you can learn to develop mental resources to help you cope with the challenges you are facing and also restore your energy levels.
Mindfulness offers many tried and trusted tools that can help deal with stress and uncertainty. You can learn to cultivate attitudes that help you to deal with difficult emotions and find more balance independently of what life presents.

Increasing resilience and wellbeing
Imagine you wake up in the morning feeling confident that you can handle whatever the day brings. You might still experience stress, feel annoyed or be anxious at times, but these feelings don’t determine your life so much anymore. You feel calmer, more focused, and you are able to enjoy the good things more.
Practicing mindfulness can bring such a shift towards greater mental and emotional wellbeing.

What you learn in the 8-week mbsr programme
Finding peace amid the turbulences of your life by learning to use your breath as an anchor
Increasing your bodily awareness: using your body as a sensitive radar instead of an amplifier of stress
Understanding the stress mechanisms: how automatic thoughts, body sensations and feelings reinforce each other and lead to being stressed out and overwhelmed
Finding new ways of dealing with difficult thoughts and feelings and learning to shift to a more relaxed mode
Awareness of your “early warning” stress symptoms
Learning how to manage your energy better
Cultivating inner qualities of compassion, gratitude, and care for yourself and others

Benefits of a mindfulness course
The majority of people completing the programme report lasting physical and psychological benefits, including:
An increased ability to cope more effectively with stressful situations
Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
Heightened self-confidence
New ways to find moments of inner calm
A greater sense of overall wellbeing
An improved sleep quality and a better immune system
Here you can read an in-depth testimonial by a course participant.

Features of the mindfulness programme:
8 weekly sessions and a full mindfulness day (Total of 26 hours)
Course led by a certified mindfulness teacher
Programme based on the scientifically validated Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme (MBSR)
Small group for more interaction with the teacher and each other
Weekly emails to deepen your learning with insights and reminders
Access to over 270 guided meditations and podcasts by our teachers
Delicious teas are available in each session.
Note: participation in this course fulfils the requirements to participate in our Mindfulness Teacher Training programme.

The course comprises
8 Weekly sessions with a unique theme (2 hours each), a handbook with work sheets and downloadable guided meditations for weekly practice awell as delicious herball teas at every session.