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Mind-Body Skills Groups are experiential and evidence-based. In our group community, we incorporate techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, autogenics, breathing, and movement that are taught in a supportive environment.
Supporting Your Journey to Wellness
Mind-Body Skills Groups offer a hands-on, evidence-based experience. Within a supportive group setting, participants learn and practice techniques like meditation, guided imagery, autogenic training, breathwork, and movement. These groups encourage self-reflection and provide opportunities to share and connect, creating space for personal growth and collective well-being. Members witness both their own emotions and the experiences of others, fostering deeper understanding and empathy. Typically, our Mind-Body Skills Group includes eight participants and a facilitator, meeting once a week for eight sessions of two hours each. Throughout the program, participants begin to weave these mind-body practices into their daily lives with encouragement from the group. Research has shown these skills can reduce stress, boost mood, increase resilience and optimism, and help prevent chronic health issues (CMBM.org).
Our mind-body medicine group follows a model developed by Dr. James Gordon, founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) in 1991. Dr. Gordon, a former researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, currently serves as a clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown Medical School. He also previously chaired the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and is the author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, a book we highly recommend.
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine is recognized as the world’s largest and most effective program for addressing psychological trauma on a broad scale. The CMBM approach equips individuals with tools to reduce stress and strengthen resilience. Chronic stress can significantly contribute to mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, and addiction, as well as physical health conditions like heart disease, immune system issues, and chronic pain (adapted from CMBM.org).
Your group leaders have completed both the professional and advanced professional training in facilitating mind-body medicine groups through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
What You’ll Learn:
Meditation: Explore various forms, including focused, mindfulness, and expressive meditation practices, to encourage relaxation and greater self-awareness.
Guided Imagery: Tap into the power of your imagination to positively influence physical health and work through challenges that have been resistant to other treatments.
Autogenic Training & Biofeedback: Learn techniques to regulate your autonomic nervous system, helping reduce stress and promote balance between mind and body.
Breathwork: Discover how mindful breathing can support overall health and well-being.
Movement: Use physical activity to boost energy and alleviate stress.
Journaling & Creative Expression: Engage in writing and drawing to uncover insights and solutions for challenges that once seemed unsolvable.
Meditation
concentrative, mindfulness, and expressive meditations – which promote relaxation and awareness.
Guided Imagery
That utilizes imagination, to enhance physiology, and address issues that have been treatment-resistant.
Autogenic training & Biofeedback
Develops control of the autonomic system which reduces stress, and balances the mind and body.
Breath Work
Breath Work
Enhances health through awareness of the breath.
Movement
Energizes and reduces stress
Journaling & Drawing
Journaling & Drawing, we reach into ourselves to engender solutions to problems that were previously insoluble —adapted from CMBM.org
After completing a brief phone interview and being accepted into the group, please fill out the intake form below and return it by fax to 336.228.4574 as soon as possible.
Fee: $120 per person for each 2-hour session. Participants are asked to commit to attending all eight sessions. Scholarships are available for those who need financial assistance. We invite you to join with an open mind and a willingness to connect, empathize, and value the diverse experiences of others, just as they will honor and respect yours.
Questions?
Questions?
Contact crystalcavalierkeck (@) gmail.com to get more information on the project
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