Tools for Teens Workshop
Get ready to go back to school with new skills
for
success!!!
Learn the same tools of
meditation and focus taught to professional athletes
and successful business leaders. Research has
shown a positive correlation between these methods
and increased GPA, standardized test scores and
focus in students.
The Tools for Teens Workshop will be held on
Friday,
August 25 from 2-4 PM at Stress Resources,
97 Lowell Rd (3rd floor) in
Concord, MA.
What can you expect from the workshop?
- Relaxation and meditation strategies
- CD for home and school practice
- Tools for more effective studying
- Lots of take-home handouts
- Fun workshop with other teens
- New ways to deal with stress
- More focus and creativity
There are only a couple of spaces left in the
workshop. Call or e-mail today to sign up!
Tools for Teens
Quick Links...
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Greetings!
As I write this August newsletter, I am savoring the
exquisite days of sun, warmth and the slower pace of
summer activity. I hope you have found some
respite from schedule and routine during the summer,
too.
For those teens anticipating returning to a stress-
filled school year in September....perhaps there is
another way? The Tools for Teens Workshop
is a
great way to gain some NEW skills that might make
the coming school year less stress-filled than last
year. This popular workshop will be offered on
August 25 -- more details on the left.
The mind-body connection is continuing to receive
interest and endorsement from mainstream medicine
as an adjunct to comprehensive health care. An
indication of this is a recent initiative by Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Massachusetts entitled: Living
Healthy
Naturally. Their website is informative and easy
to
navigate. I am pleased to have been selected as a
recommended provider listed on their site.
For some late summer listening and meditation
practice, you may want to check out a new CD set
just released on Mindfulness for Beginners by
Jon
Kabat-Zinn. This is a wonderful explanation of
mindfulness and guided practice experience for
beginner and experienced meditators a like.
As always, I appreciate you suggestions, comments
and thoughts about the newsletter, programming or
topics of interest. Please forward this newsletter on
to friends or colleagues who may also be interested
in the work of Stress Resources.
Warmly,
Pam
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Fall MBSR Program
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Classes are beginning to fill for Stress Resources'
Fall 2006 Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction
Program beginning the week of September
25.
Stress Resources is honored to be the only
program
offering 19.2 approved contact hours for nurses
participating in the program. The MBSR program
is
modeled after the program started at UMass Medical
School by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction is a program open to anyone interested in
learning ways work with stresses in their lives.
Stress Resources offers this program to the New
England community at a substantially discounted rate
of $250 to ensure that program cost does not
present a financial barrier to participation. The 8
week program is limited to 15 participants per session
and is offered both Tuesday evenings or Friday
mornings. Click below for more information.
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Living Healthy Naturally
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Stress Resources and Pamela Ressler, RN, BSN,
HNC are proud to be partnering with Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in their
Living
Healthy Naturally Program.
If you are a subscriber to a Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts plan, you have a wonderful new
benefit -- an informative website, as well as
discounted services with many complementary,
alternative and integrative practitioners in the area.
Only practitioners who meet rigorous professional
educational and credentialing criteria are listed on
the site.
Stress Resources offers a 20% discount
on individual
sessions for participants in the Blue Cross Blue Shield
Living Healthy Naturally Program. Simply show your
Blue
Shield Card at your first appointment and all your
individual visits will be eligible for the discount. Stress
Resources does not bill your insurance carrier but is
happy to provide a paid receipt for health
plans. This discount is only available for individual
sessions, not for
classes,
workshops, group sessions or materials.
Pam is available for individual sessions to work with
clients on
coping and resiliency strategies, meditation methods,
stress
management skills, relaxation tools, holistic pain
management, peak performance training and more
by appointment at the Concord Center
office of Stress Resources. Call or e-mail for more
details.
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NEW Mindfulness CD
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A new CD by Jon Kabat-Zinn, entitled
Mindfulness
for Beginners was released in July. In
Mindfulness
for Beginners, Jon invites you to "cultivate
mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it
surely does, and experience the magnitude and
beauty of who you already are".
The two-CD set includes an informative talk by Jon
and a practice CD with various mediations. I
highly recommend it both for experienced and
beginning meditators -- as Jon so ably and gently
leads us in exploring what mindfulness means to each
of us individually and collectively.
Mindfulness for Beginners may be
purchased at: soundstrue.com
or amazon.com
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