January 2016

 

Distress Tolerance Group

with gentle yoga

 

Thursdays: January 14- March 3, 2016 from 12-1:30pm,

 

• Pain and distress are an inevitable part of life. But we can learn to bear pain skillfully.

 

• Through cultivating acceptance we refrain from creating unnecessary suffering in our lives.

 

• By developing skills to tolerate distress, we open up greater possibility for personal transformation that might otherwise be impossible due to impulsive actions interfering with efforts to establish desired changes.

 

This 8 week mindfulness based psycho-educational group will explore these topics through lecture, discussion and experience-based learning activities such as gentle yoga. Gentle yogic movement and breathing exercises (which we may do standing or from our chairs) will help us to develop compassionate awareness…or mindfulness, which is foundational to distress tolerance.

 

Come join us and stretch your mind, body and soul!

The group is strongly rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Distress Tolerance is one of 3 modules offered in succession. Other modules are Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness. A fourth module: Core Mindfulness, is foundational to this work and is incorporated into each module. Participants are welcome to take as few or as many modules as they like. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. The cost of the group is $400 per person for 8 weeks.