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Mindfulness approaches 8 week programme Course handbook Mindfulness approaches course handbook Welcome to this course handbook. This will accompany you during the eight week course and contains notes, diaries, quotes and readings to provide a background and support to your learning. You may find it helpful to read the relevant session notes after taking part in that session, and you will find diaries for recording your reflections and specific homework tasks. We would recommend that you do not read ahead to enable you to experience each session fresh, without any prior expectations. It can also be helpful not to get too involved in reading for the duration of the course, as this can move us into more of a cognitive or thinking mode of processing, which may interfere with the experiential process. We will suggest some reading materials, and you may wish to reserve those until the ending of the course. Alternatively, you may find that it can enrich your learning experience if you chose to read perhaps one or two pages or re-read some of the poems we will be using, and to use these for reflection. This handbook will serve as a future reference point, as a memory book of what we will cover, and catalogue of resources which you can follow up at a later stage. It can also serve the purpose of a journal to chart your reflections throughout the course and thus deepen your learning. We hope that you experience an enriching journey of transformation and discovery with us over the coming weeks. Charlotte Procter Alistair Wilson July 2008 “Our privilege and responsibility as servants of the healing arts is to create an environment, provide a method and inspire people to touch what we, beyond any evidence to the contrary, know is who they really are because we have touched this within ourselves. When people drink even a single drop from this well, longing and intensity are once again awakened, allowing this w