Liberation of What?
Therapy, Mindfulness, Healing and Liberation with Lama Mark Webber
April 29-30th, Tuesday & Wednesday, 9:30am – 5:30 pm.
Professional Development Workshop primarily for Healthcare Professionals
Medical professionals, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Practitioners from related fields welcome.
In this workshop, Lama Mark Webber will explore the interconnections between therapy, meditation, mindfulness, healing and new discoveries in brain science.
The key theme will be “what gets shifted, changed or liberated in all these modalities?”
The emphasis will be on meditative experiments and theory showing the importance of allowing for openness, investigation and discovery. Beginning with the sensory motor system–all rooted in physiology which is interdependent on our experience of self and world.
Additionally, Lama Mark will point out how tranquility, kindness and deep calm arise and explore this with workshop participants. We will learn about the profound link between mindfulness, breath and the natural plasticity and openness of the nervous system.
This is a wonderful opportunity for professional therapists to explore deeply, take care of their being and thereby further enrich the lives of their clients.
Lama Mark writes: “The human mind is capable of an enormous range of plasticity, healing, transformation and Insight. And, we are capable of experiencing extraordinary ranges of suffering and happiness. You as professionals want people to be happy and well adjusted in life—free of dysfunction and mal-adaptions. However, what really is it that we are, changing, liberating or freeing up? Is it a shift, a change in how we understand ourselves and the world or something quite life changing? To me, this is the heart of what we do and requires more conscious definition and practice in all the modalities that we apply. Mindfulness and meditation, especially from the Buddhist tradition are being used and incorporated more frequently into the therapy and the healing arts. Here we will address what the Buddhist tradition of liberation defines as real freedom, the ‘measuring sticks’ so to speak, and why, when and how the meditations are applied and when they really work”
Some Topics Covered:
- Defining the terms: meditation; mindfulness; awareness and Insight (Vipassana).
- Exploring the importance of fostering openness in the sensory motor system—
- •especially the eyes, mouth and hands.
- What needs to be in place before meditation and mindfulness are effective—why
- •we need to keep on learning kindness for ourselves and others.
- How deep calm and tranquility arises, signs and side tracks.
- Why breath, contact and sensation is the royal road to mindfulness and tranquility. What blocks mindfulness and tranquility?
- How the nervous system can be re-organized—examples and experiments.
- What mental factors and attitudes must be present and the investigations leading
- •to Insight (Vipassana) and thus real liberation.
- Illuminating the differences between the modes of: technique and contemplative
- •awareness.
- How compassion emerges and why it is important to make it central to any
- •spiritual or liberative growth.
Venue: Taitamariki Hall
8 Auburn St Reserve, Takapuna, Auckland
Costs: $285 for two days, student rates available
Places will be limited please book early.
For details and bookings contact: Corinna cfriebel@actrix.co.nz ph: 021 051 7243
Auckland Sphere Group 