Becoming Yourself

Starting the week of September 18th

Dates and times to be announced: Check back in early August

Enter the new term living wholeheartedly while accepting your gifts, imperfections, and areas of growth as clues to your authentic self. Practice self-compassion and mindfulness to support yourself during times of uncertainty, newness, and challenge. Experience:

• Mindfulness and self-care practices
• Reflective exercises to discover more of who you are
• Attention to your dreams and what they are telling you about yourself
• Treating yourself with kindness and respect, letting go of comparison and self-criticism
• Exploring how to say no to that which is not you
• Struggle as a path to bravery, kindness, wisdom, and resilience

A chance to share ideas for authentic living with others who are asking similar questions. The course includes weekly 50-minute workshops with interactive group exercises, self-awareness and mindfulness practices to try at home, and a meeting with a staff coach. You will be guided in practicing daily mindfulness exercises in your own time and submit a short weekly reflection about your experiences of these exercises.

Weekly topics:

• Session 1: Embracing the Real Me (and how to get self-defeating opinions out of my head)
• Session 2: Empowerment - Uncovering my skills, gifts, and the treasure within
• Session 3: Befriending Myself through Mindfulness
• Session 4: Gifts and Shadows: moving beyond comparison (working with dreams)
• Session 5: Learning from Struggles and Imperfections
• Session 6: From Comparison to Compassion

TO REGISTER: 

• Open to all students at no cost. You do not need to have completed previous parts to benefit from this Course.
• Register to save your spot: check back in August

After Registering: set your e-mail to accept messages from socadmin@mcmaster.ca Within one week of the start date, if you’ve not received further information, please check your spam folder.

The Becoming Yourself series is funded by Student Open Circles