by Mindfulness Toronto | Apr 23, 2014 | Community Meeting
Kate will lead a practice and then open the floor to any questions about leading mindfulness practices, leading inquiry, leading groups that are on your mind. Instead of addressing one topic, this will be an opportunity to bring whatever is on your mind. There is an...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Mar 25, 2014 | Community Meeting
At this month’s Mindfulness Toronto Community Meeting, New Leaf’s co-founder and executive director, Laura Sygrove, will discuss the organization’s approach, their work within several TDSB schools, how this fits into their overall mandate, and the...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Feb 6, 2014 | Community Meeting
Being fully present enhances our health, well-being, and relationships. Therapeutic presence, which includes feeling grounded, immersed, spacious, and compassionately with and for another, can be strengthened with awareness and practice. Therapeutic presence is...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Nov 13, 2013 | Community Meeting
The theme for the evening will be an examination of the role of narratives in a mindful Western life, from both personal experience and contemporary neuroscience perspectives. Is thinking about the world conceptually really antithetical to being mindful? What does the...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Sep 17, 2013 | Community Meeting
EEG and meditation have always shared an interesting relationship – creating the opportunity for anyone to engage in simple mindfulness practice using EEG has been the work of Michael Apollo at InteraXon. His work has been focused on quanitifying internal states...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Jun 6, 2013 | Community Meeting
MBSR and MBCT have done a great job of introducing people to mindfulness meditation in secular, psychologically-grounded contexts. However, less attention has been given to supporting the ongoing development of mature, secular, meditation practice. In fact,...
