Showing Up
in community for ourselves, each other and our world
Deepening resilience, connection and compassion during Covid-19
For our mindful social engagement schedule for September (in-person and online), please click here
August 2020
Half-hour online mindfulness practice is offered through the week by mindfulness teachers at the links below.
The Mindfulness Centre
www.mindfulness.ie
Mondays and Wednesdays at 8pm, Saturdays at 12pm.
Free, donations welcome
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to join
The Mindfulness Teachers' Association of Ireland
www.mtai.ie
Mondays at 9am, Wednesdays at 9pm, Fridays at 9am.
Free, donations welcome
Click here
to join
Mindfulness and Covid-19
In this moment of pandemic we're experiencing a truth which may not have been clearly visible before: we are intimately woven together into the social fabric of our community, our country and our world. When we take action to protect ourself and others by washing our hands, keeping a distance of two metres or self-isolating, we're expressing this reality. This can be a source of resilience and connection rather than isolation and fear.
Mindfulness practice offers us ways to navigate our very natural and understandable anxiety about an unfolding crisis of this magnitude. It helps us to step away from the fearful chatter of our minds and to notice what is actually happening right now, in this moment, 'in our body, heart and mind'. We access our basic sanity and compassion and from here we choose what is the best action to take on behalf of ourselves and others.
Niamh Barrett
has been facilitating mindfulness courses since 2010, she a member of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland
(formed to uphold mindfulness teaching standards and guidelines), and she has received training in facilitating council circle practice (Center for Council, US). She is an experienced facilitator of online mindfulness and council circle practice. In 2019 she started showing up, a framework of online and in-person retreats and gatherings to engage with the housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland and other social issues. On Nollaig na mBan 2019 she facilitated a women's day-retreat, inspired by the bearing witness practices of Zen Peacemakers, on the theme of bearing witness to gender-based violence and resilience and she will offer this again around Nollaig na mBan 2021.
In Summer/Autumn 2020 she will offer a small, in-person retreat day, bearing witness to the climate emergency.
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you – in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
- Jan Chozen Bays
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