Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
September 24, 2025 November 12, 2025
with Sydney Spears, PhD, RYT-200
SERIES OF CLASSES
Total # of Classes
9
Location
Online via Zoom
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week course that cultivates mindfulness skills and explores common and unique life-challenges within a safe, supportive group learning environment. By sharing challenges, successes and obstacles, individuals within groups tap a deep well of resources, enhanced by a variety of backgrounds and life experiences. MBSR is a skill building course, and although it can be therapeutic, it is not therapy. The course consists of eight weekly 2 hour classes and half day retreat. Attending an MBSR course as a participant is the first step in learning to become an MBSR teacher. Participants receive:
- 20 total hours of instruction in MBSR which includes carefully sequenced mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, written exercises, group discussions, and mindful movement
- Weekly home practice
- Teacher support between sessions
- Access to all meditation audio recordings
Dates & Location - Join Sydney Spears and Tracy Ochester Online Wed Sept 24 - Nov 12 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm + retreat Sat Nov 1, 2025 from 1-5
Cost - $575 (members enjoy a 20% discount by entering code MEMBERS20 at checkout. Honoring our value of generosity, those experiencing significant financial hardship may instead purchase a "pay what you can pass" before registering.)
Prerequisites:
- Complete the Participant Background Form right after you register. The teacher may contact you to talk about specific needs.
- Attend our FREE MBSR Introductory Session online via YouTube before the class begins
- Purchase the optional Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook, which may be helpful during the course
No refunds are provided after the deadline for enrollment, which is one week prior to the start of the course. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the class in case of low attendance in which case, you will be given a full refund. MBSR is offered in partnership with independent MBSR teachers who maintain responsibility for the teaching and content of each course.
**MO & KS licensed mental health professionals can earn up to 20 continuing education units by participating in this course at the full price.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the key aspects and potential benefits of mindfulness as it relates to stress reduction, coping with pain and illness, and enhancing well-being
- Differentiate MBSR from relaxation and other distraction techniques that may seem similar but are fundamentally and theoretically quite different in working with difficulty and enhancing the quality of life
- Apply mindfulness techniques and practices as a means of relating more effectively with life stressors, pain, anxiety, and distress
- Apply mindfulness to social interactions to facilitate more effective and mindful communication
The class takes place on...
- September 24 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- October 1 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- October 8 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- October 15 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- October 22 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- October 29 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- November 1 at 1:00 pm (Saturday)
- November 5 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
- November 12 at 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
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