by Mindfulness Toronto | Mar 30, 2020 | Community Meeting
More and more is being understood about the impact of mindfulness on wellbeing. If we place meditation in the centre of a model of resilience model we are more likely to bounce back and even bounce forward from setbacks and challenges. This...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Mar 25, 2014 | Community Meeting
At this month’s Mindfulness Toronto Community Meeting, New Leaf’s co-founder and executive director, Laura Sygrove, will discuss the organization’s approach, their work within several TDSB schools, how this fits into their overall mandate, and the...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Feb 6, 2014 | Community Meeting
Being fully present enhances our health, well-being, and relationships. Therapeutic presence, which includes feeling grounded, immersed, spacious, and compassionately with and for another, can be strengthened with awareness and practice. Therapeutic presence is...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Nov 13, 2013 | Community Meeting
The theme for the evening will be an examination of the role of narratives in a mindful Western life, from both personal experience and contemporary neuroscience perspectives. Is thinking about the world conceptually really antithetical to being mindful? What does the...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Sep 17, 2013 | Community Meeting
EEG and meditation have always shared an interesting relationship – creating the opportunity for anyone to engage in simple mindfulness practice using EEG has been the work of Michael Apollo at InteraXon. His work has been focused on quanitifying internal states...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Jun 6, 2013 | Community Meeting
MBSR and MBCT have done a great job of introducing people to mindfulness meditation in secular, psychologically-grounded contexts. However, less attention has been given to supporting the ongoing development of mature, secular, meditation practice. In fact,...
