“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”
– Carl Jung
Courses
Introduction to Awareness of Body-Brain Communication
We provide on-site introductory workshops to the conceptual framework of Body-Brain Communication. We explore the WHY we need to rewire our brains and the WHY and HOW contemplative techniques work to rewire our brains. We approach this from a systematic, logic, and scientific perspective.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course (4 or 8 week program)
This program incorporates mindfulness practice with the intention of enhancing stress resilience. It was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn. This course helps you developing an increased awareness of the body, thoughts, and emotions and provides theoretical and practical tools to explore new possibilities of experiencing difficult situations in daily life.
Awareness of Body-Brain Communication for Life Scientists.
This program is designed for graduate students (master and PhD students), Postdocs, and other members of groups, organizations, or institutions working on the life sciences field. Scientists follow rigorously the scientific method and many people working on this field feel more comfortable with systematic, logical, and objective approaches when dealing with a particular topic. During this course, we give strong emphasis on these qualities. We explicitly explain why it makes sense to practice the techniques we offer and we offer detailed and systematic content on the mechanisms underlying Body-Brain Communication.
We offer this course because we acknowledge the rising problem of mental health in people working in the academic field. People working in academia (especially but not restricted to the Life Sciences field) are exposed to a large amount of workload and pressure to achieve career goals. This work environment coupled to the lack of programs offered by the institutions addressing these issues contributes to the development of stress-related disorders such as depression, anxiety, burnout, etc. It is of paramount importance to restructure the academic system into a more health- conscious one; however, this will take time. In the meanwhile, Awareness of Body-Brain Communication (ABBC) facilitates the development of stress resilience and helps the participants to learn new strategies to cope with stressful situations both at work and in daily life.