The Art of Being: Intermediate MindfulnessTraining (English)

An Invitation to Go Deeper

You have completed a mindfulness training and experienced firsthand how it can shift your perspective and lead to more relaxation and groundedness. You have learned to pause, observe your thoughts and emotions, and respond with greater choice. Moments of stillness have opened up space in your life, and stress has become something you can (at times) navigate with more awareness.

And yet, something in you is still curious. You sense there’s more to discover: more depth, more ease, more ways that mindfulness can shape not just moments, but the way you live. When life gets truly challenging, it’s still hard to stay present, and old patterns creep back in.

Mindfulness isn’t just something you learn once, it is a journey without end. It's something you practice until it shapes your new habits. This training is the next step on your journey: it is an opportunity to strengthen your foundation, cultivate self-compassion and resilience and connect with your inner compass so that mindfulness becomes an anchor, not just in peaceful moments, but in the middle of life’s uncertainty.

If you have completed an MBSR (or MBCT) training, you have learned how to be more present, how to relief some stress, and cultivate increased awareness in daily life. To some extent, you have developed the ability to pause, notice your thoughts and emotions, and respond with greater choice. You have gotten a taste of how mindfulness can transform your experience, and how small moments of stillness can create more space in your life. And all this has made you curious to discover more what mindfulness can change in your life? Then, this training is exactly what you need to dive deeper!

You are looking to:

• Find calm and clarity in the midst of life’s demands. Whether it's career, family, or the state of the world, you want to feel more grounded and present.

• Let go of struggle and meet life with more ease. You are tired of fighting thoughts, emotions, and circumstances, and want a new way to relate to them.

• Strengthen self-compassion and inner trust. You want to be kinder to yourself and listen more deeply to what truly matters.

• Reconnect with meaning and direction. You are seeking a way to live with more intention, purpose, and alignment with your values.

• Move beyond mindfulness as a practice and into mindfulness as a way of being. You have experienced its benefits and now want to integrate it fully into your life.

An 8-Week Journey

This 8-week program is not a repeat of MBSR (Mindfulness-Bases Stress Reduction). It is the next level. builds upon what you have already learned, offering new insights, practices, and a space to reconnect with yourself in a deeper way. This is an opportunity to bring mindfulness off the cushion and into the way you live, to anchor yourself in presence, and to strengthen the capacity to meet life as it is with openness, strength, and a steady heart. Because in these times of global uncertainty, the world calls upon you to take personal leadership, to stand rooted in yourself, and to meet change with clarity and resilience.

Themes of the 8 Sessions:

1. Slowing Down & Deep Rest - Letting go of urgency and cultivating ease in the here-and-now

2. Embracing Change - Letting go of inner struggle and control.

3. Nurturing Self-Compassion - Understanding how self-compassion supports well-being

4. Difference between Pain & Suffering - Dealing with difficult emotions

5. Cultivating Joy & Gratitude Amidst Challenges - Seeing what is there

6. Tapping into Inner Wisdom - Trusting intuition and deep listening

7. Living with Intention & Meaning - Aligning with your values and inner warrior

8. Integration & Moving Forward - How it all comes together

Dates: The training consists of 8 sessions of 2,5 hours on the following dates:

1. Wednesday 17 September from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

2. Wednesday 24 September from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

3. Wednesday 15 October from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

4. Wednesday 22 October from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

5. Wednesday 29 October from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

6. Wednesday 5 November from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

7. Wednesday 12 November from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

8. Wednesday 19 November from 19.15 - 21.45 hrs

Location: Rooseboomstraat 47, The Hague

Language: English

Group size: Maximum of 8 participants, ensuring personal attention.

Rates and Registration

1. Individuals: 499 euros. There is an Early Bird discount untill 1st of June: 450 euro instead of 499 euro

2. Business Rate: 600 euros (including VAT, deductible for employers).

   
   

Each session includes:

• Guided meditation

• Practical exercises

• Discussion

• Take-home practices

Trainer: Gaula Shehadeh, certified mindfulness teacher with deep experience in meditation and inner work. She is known for her warmth, wisdom and sense of humour. Check out her 5-star Google Reviews (46) Google Reviews