“A Simple Guide to Exploring Our Inner Selves with Friends”
If you’ve been curious about mindfulness but have never known where to start, you are not alone. Mindfulness Together may well be the beginning you and the people around you have been looking for.
A comprehensive guide to setting up and running a community-focused mindfulness group.
It contains full session plans, meditation routines, learning materials and self-reflection activities for 10 group sessions that will equip you and your fellow group members with the habits and insights of a mindful person, at the same time as you become a community of friends.
Get Started with 10 Sessions
Session 1: Introducing Meditation
Session 2: Guided Meditation
Session 3: Lucid Dreaming
Session 4: Introducing Mindfulness
Session 5: Emotional Intelligence
Session 6: Rational Maturity
Session 7: Relationships with Ourselves
Session 8: Relationships with Others
Session 9: Gratitude
Session 10: Bringing Everything Together
Beyond the 10th Session
Our proven methodology gets you started quickly but has plenty of room for you to add your personal customizations. Just add lifelong learners.
The most complicated part of running a mindfulness group is designing activities for the sessions and preparing the accompanying materials for them. But if you have a copy of my book, you don’t need to worry about this side of things because in this volume you will find a complete set of materials and facilitating instructions for 10 sessions, plus a template that you can use to create future sessions for your group.
Mindfulness Together includes the following sessions:
Structure of the Sessions
You will see that the start and finish of the materials for each session contain sections titled “Welcoming the Group” and “Wrapping Up the Session.”
The middle portion of the materials is where you will find the real substance of the sessions. With the exception of the first two sessions, every session comprises the same activities: a meditation, a review of the homework assigned in the previous session, assignment of the homework activities to be reviewed in the next session, and a discussion of the session’s main topic.
The last main activity in each session is the discussion of the session’s main topic. You will find two sections in the materials that will guide you and your group members through this part of the session.
Running Your Group
My advice for running a community-building mindfulness group can be summed up in three words