29/10/2019
Announcement
We are delighted to inform you Mindful Parenting and Stess Management Courses start by 15th November. For registration you could reach us via email [email protected] or call us by 0090 542 873 9155.
POST RI organises personal training workshops during November and December 2019 at Peace Education Centre & Library!
Ø Do you want to develop your inter-personal relationships with your partner or a family member? Do you want to be more aware of your fears and learn how to handle with your stress?
Ø Or you want to experience mindful parenting?
Ø Have you ever considered that there is a natural tendency to anticipate the future so that we can focus most of our attention on what we would like to achieve and want to learn how to do that?
Then, we invite you to get registered immediately to the upcoming workshops with Constantinos Hadjichristofi!
The workshops will take place between March and June 2019 at Peace Education Centre of POST Research Institute.
To find out more and get registered please email to [email protected] or call us by 05428739155 (Mehveş)
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1- Mindfulness Parenting (8 weekly meetings/16 teaching hours)
Avoid Automatic reactions
Connect with Beginner’s mind
Understand parenting patterns
Accept Love and limits
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PARENTING is one of the most consuming and responsible tasks in a lifetime for many parents yet at the same time it can be one of the most fulfilling job. Mindful parenting offers another way of approaching parenting in high stress time. MINDFULNESS enables us effective use of the present moment in becoming more AWARE of the appropriateness of particular choices. The core of the program aims to enable parents to use mindfulness techniques as an exploration tool into their PARENTING PRACTISES. It will introduce them to the benefits of mindfulness as a parenting approach as well as to ways that would enable to SUPPORT THEIR CHILD at home.
Certain of The Benefits that parents would gain:
Develop more intentional and mindful parenting
Understand Judging Vs. non Judging
The difference between Doing Vs. Being mode
How to be with negative experience instead of avoidance
Discover preconceptions of their child
Avoid putting labels on the child
2- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (8 weekly 2-hour meetings/one 6-hour workshop)
Lao Tsu- if you are depressed you live in the past, if you are anxious you live in the future, if you are at peace you live in the present.
Awareness
Non-judgment
Self-compassion
Attention building
Emotional resilience
2- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a systematic person-centered educational approach which uses relatively intensive training in mindfulness. It aims to teach people how to take better care of themselves and live healthier and more adaptive lives.
Participants will learn about stress, and explore the habitual, automatic behavioral, physical, emotional and cognitive patterns as well as investigate, in detail, more effective and skilful responses to the challenges and demands of everyday life. In parallel, they’ll also be exploring what it means to take care of ourselves and flourish, how to relate to ourselves and others more effectively and what it might be like to nourish behaviors and activities that express our innate capacity for wellbeing.
Constantinos Hadjichristofi is a registered clinical psychologist (378) with the board of registration in Cyprus and a graduate member of the British Psychological Society. His main interest has always been in Positive Psychology and this has led him to become a mindfulness trainer. He has been trained by Eline Snel at Holland, as a mindfulness teacher for Children. He is trained to provide instruction for children from the ages of 4 years old to 19 years old. He is also in the process to receive accreditation as a trainer for MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) for adults, at the Institute for Mindfulness based approaches at Berlin. Constantino’s interest in positive psychology has also lead him to receive a certificate initially and a diploma subsequently in Solution focused approach by the BRIEF organization at London. The method is described as a brief, positive and future orientated method which aims in recovering skills and resources already present. The method can have applications in therapy, coaching or mentoring services in different settings such as organizations, schools, individuals and family settings. In collaboration with other professionals he offers workshops in both methods at his private practice. He is also a member of the bi-communal NGO Kiklos that aims to provide psychological support and empowerment to disadvantaged groups in both communities.
POST Research Institute is a non-profit, non-political organisation established in 2002 by a group of individuals whose aim is to work for the social, cultural and environmental betterment of Cyprus. POST RI has conducted various projects and activities since its establishment, including three Education for Peace projects, Exploring Europe with partners European University of Cyprus, Divided Communities Project in Mostar, as well as various human rights seminars and film events. POST RI’s work has been presented in various European counties’ and the US.
