Join us for 5 weekly sessions to explore mindfulness-based tools and “The Work That Reconnects” for growing inner resilience and empowered responses to our world.
You are invited to join us for an exploration of how we can grow our positive resources to face uncertain times and take the meaningful actions we want to see in the world for social and ecological justice.
We will draw on the grounding, awareness and resilience building of meditation to support us in developing a sustained practice. We will also go beyond mindfulness as a simple wellbeing tool, and explore it’s more radical and creative potential for expanding how we sense ourselves and our relationship to the world at this time.
We will also dive into the creative pathways of Joanna Macy’s “Work that reconnects” to discover and explore our unique responses, visions and contributions to creating change. This is a powerful model and process for digging deep into the roots of what motivates and supports us, as well as challenges and obstacles on our journey.
The foundations of this work is how we co-create a supportive community to share and learn from each other. This helps us align to our vision, and expand to broader perspectives and possibilities. All participation is invitational and our community space is based on mutual respect, kindness and open-minded listening.
What to expect in a session:
- Restorative practices
- Creative reflection
- Explorations of inner & outer change
- Listening circles and community wisdom
- Community connection in a supportive space
Who is it for?
We welcome all levels of interest and experience – please join us if you consider yourself an activist, connected to a movement or just passionate about change and finding your role in acting for social and ecological justice.
This course is open to young people between the ages of 16-24
We have a limited number of spaces. Apply for a space soon to secure your place!
Date & Time
5 Tuesday evenings on Zoom from the 15th March – 12th April 2022
6-7:30 PM (includes a comfort break)
Cost
This course is offered in the spirit of gift and generosity to enable everybody access and the opportunity to participate.
There is no price for joining and we invite you to offer a donation
Your contribution supports the course leaders for offering their time and energy in delivering and preparing the course.
Please get in touch If you have any questions about this course or need more information:
077887691707
email /kareem (at) ibme.org.uk/
The Application form can be found at the bottom of this page
Course Leaders
Gareth Fysh-Foskett
Gareth has worked with young people in Mid-West Wales for the past 5/6 years. His passion is connecting all aspects of community with the woodland world, and offering a deeper reconnection with wilderness through meditation. His work spans mental-health support, traditional green-wood carpentry, food-production, and social forestry for conservation and well-being. He has been rooted in movements for social change and ecological justice for much of his adult life, and for the past 5,6 years has been actively bringing contemplative practice to front line activism. He also completed 6 years of training as a monastic and now teaches as a community dharma leader in Wales.
Justine Rowan
Justine is a senior registered yoga teacher with over a decade of full-time teaching experience. She loves teaching both dynamic and gentle restorative classes for all ages in her local community. A long time meditation practitioner, she trained with Mindfulness in Schools UK to teach the .b Mindfulness for Teens programme, and has taken part as a mentor in IBME UK retreats since 2017. Justine is the mother of two young adults and is an advocate for young people in the UK having better access to practices like meditation and supportive community to build happy, healthy lives as global citizens.
Kareem Ghandour
Kareem first encountered mindfulness at the age of 18 and has been inspired about sharing it with young people ever since. He has spent many years active in initiatives for mindfulness in education and in mindful communities for youth, as a facilitator in peer- led settings, and teaching on courses and retreats. These include the Wake Up movement for young adults and the charity Youth Mindfulness. He completed his mindfulness teacher training in 2018 and was trained in person by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He is passionate about exploring the role of play, creativity and social justice in the mindfulness world
Martina Boshell
Martina is mum to two teenagers. She has a Ph.D in Immunology and has worked as a scientist for 10 years working on breast cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
She trained as a Psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis and has worked with young people for the last 25 years. She has worked with Youth at Risk, a community based programme in London and in Northern Ireland.
Martina is a trained Relax Kids Coach and is also a Mindfulness in Schools Teacher having trained to teach both the paws be and .b programmes. Currently Martina is completing a Masters in Mindfulness at Bangor University while also working with families, children and young people.
She staffed the first iBme UK retreat for teenagers in the UK in 2017 after which she was inspired to run her own 1 day retreat for local teenagers introducing them to Mindfulness, Yoga & Tai Chi, and Mindfulness in the Woods. She also staffed the 2018 iBme retreat in UK.
Martina teaches Mindfulness to children, teenagers and adults, the youngest participant being 5 and the oldest being 85. She runs 8 Week MBSR courses and Mindfulness classes in her local community. She has a passion for improving mental health and well-being and giving people a chance to shine. She also works with Lego and runs resilience groups. She likes to think outside the box to empower people, is authentic, caring and just a bit crazy and likes blowing bubbles.
We hope you can join us on this journey!