Mindfulness and the Sense of Wellbeing (Online)

What would your life be like if you could maintain a sense of wellbeing no matter the circumstances you face? While we’re never happy when things go wrong, we can cultivate the optimism and confidence to make the best out of those situations. Join us to learn mindfulness practices that can lead to the longstanding, gentle mental discipline required to respond to situations with thoughtful, constructive, compassionate, and skillful actions. In this workshop, you’ll be guided step-by-step through meditative techniques – some calming, some challenging – and reflect on how the quality of awareness changes after we focus our attention on practicing mindfulness.

Stanley Merrill earned a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification through the Awareness Training Institute of the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center in 2019. The two-year program was taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach through Sounds True. He attended a teacher training class “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction” taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn through the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Stanley has taught meditation techniques at the Veterans Administration, the Houston Area Parkinson’s Society, the West University Seniors Center, Luna Recovery Center, MD Anderson in Sugarland, and Chevron. For 23 years he worked at IBM where he was a Systems Engineer Systems Engineer Manager and an Application Development Consultant. He has studied Buddhist philosophy and meditation since 1995.

This program is being offered ONLINE only. Recordings will be distributed to registered participants only, and will not be available for individual purchase.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.