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Stressed? Distracted? Over Uni?

What if 8 weeks could seriously change how you handle it all?

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Join our Mindfulnes Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program – backed by science and loved by students worldwide.

Is MBSR for you?

This mindfulness course is ideal if you:

• Want to reduce stress, anxiety, or emotional reactivity
• Interested in studying more efficiently through increased focus and attention
• Seek a deeper sense of clarity, calm, and connection
• Are curious about meditation and personal growth in an evidence-based way
• Feel stuck on autopilot and want to live more intentionally

No experience with mindfulness is necessary — just an open mind and a willingness to explore.

📅 What’s involved:

• 8 weekly sessions (2.5 hours each) – it’s a commitment, but it’s worth it
• Guided meditations, mindful movement, and real-life tools that stick
• A supportive group of students all learning together

WHEN: Thursdays for 8 weeks – 2:30pm – 5:00pm

Begins WEEK 1 – Thursday July 31 and runs through to Sep 18

WHERE: OASIS Student Wellbeing Centre – Bedford Park Campus (F2F)

FACILITATOR: Counsellor Chris O’Grady

REGISTER HERE

Spots are limited – sign up now and invest in your mental clarity, calm, and confidence.
Your future self will thank you.

 

Developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one of the most well-researched and respected mindfulness programs in the world. Over 8 weeks, this course helps you relate differently to stress, uncertainty, and the challenges of study and everyday life — while also deepening your sense of meaning, connection, and personal growth.

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, navigating a transition, or simply curious about mindfulness and wellbeing, MBSR offers a practical, compassionate, and powerful approach to living more fully.

Through the cultivation of skills, attitudes and knowledge, the MBSR program offers a scientific and evidence-based approach to develop and quicken our innate human capacities for attention, awareness and wise action. You will learn a range of mindfulness practices to cultivate an accepting and compassionate stance towards your own internal experiences including thoughts, emotions, body sensations and impulses, and how to apply this in a practical way to immediate life challenges.

MBSR is different from other mindfulness offerings in terms of dedicated attention with a facilitator (Counsellor Chris O’Grady – pictured), time spent in actual practice and the transformative power of being on this journey with other students in the group.

The dedicated mindfulness practice will also support you more generally with your:

Focus and presence 💡

Cultivate more concentration and capacity to be in the moment with what matters to you most, here and now.

Emotional calming 😌 

Reduce reactivity, learn to befriend your emotions and to express them in ways that set clear and caring boundaries.

Clarity and wisdom 🦉

See your patterns and values with more clarity so that your actions can be more beneficial to yourself and others.

 

In MSBR change happens through:

Physiological regulation ~ learning how to calm down and balance your nervous system

Emotional awareness ~ getting to know your own emotions and how to accept, explore and transform them

Cognitive flexibility ~ developing more concentration and clarity, and less rigidity in your beliefs and attitudes

Engagement with values ~ bringing what you care about into how you live

Behavioural change ~ experimenting with small changes leading to bigger shifts in life

 

Topics by week 📅

Week 1     Recognising the present moment
Week 2     Perception and how we make sense of the world
Week 3     Keeping the body in mind
Week 4     Investigating stressful experience and approaching the difficult
Week 5     Finding perspective: working with emotions and thoughts
Week 6     Relationships and kindness
Week 7     Values and action
Week 8     Making mindfulness a part of your life

 

 What does the MBSR course involve?

• A 2.5-hour class, over eight weeks, plus one afternoon of mindfulness practice
• An individual phone interview, and ongoing individual support from the facilitator
• Mindfulness meditation and body awareness training
• Scientific rationale for the practice
• Good conversations with your fellow students about things that matter
• An exploration of your own patterns and how to transform them
• Access to an audio app for practice and a 145-page course book

Come and see how this inspiring course can help you develop more mental, emotional, physical and psychological resilience and well-being. This program costs $800 in the community but as a Flinders student it is completely FREE!

 

THE DETAILS & REGISTER

WHEN: Thursdays for 8 weeks – 2:30pm – 5:00pm

Begins WEEK 1 – Thursday July 31 and runs through to Sep 18

WHERE: OASIS Student Wellbeing Centre – Bedford Park Campus (F2F)

FACILITATOR: Counsellor Chris O’Grady

REGISTER HERE

Spots are limited – sign up now and invest in your mental clarity, calm, and confidence.
Your future self will thank you.

 

If you have any questions about the program please reach out to Chris at chris.ogrady@flinders.edu.au