Going Beyond What You Believe to Be True | Individual Sessions
First Steps is the first in a series of courses. The entire series addresses the objectives of the Insight and Mindfulness course but in short more intense sessions developing capacities at more discrete levels. Segments of the Insight and Mindfulness course like Going Beyond are available in group and individual sessions and in several formats in person, online, or via Skype: with practice books, in digital formats as an email course, and as a computer based meditation course on CD-ROM.

As in the group course, Insight and Mindfulness, deepen intimate experience of your own own mind and body processes. Through this awareness enrich personal and professional skills by developing strength in observing processes, disidentifying with content, and intervening in unfolding processes at increasingly subtle levels. For continuing educaton, you will explain the importance and relevance of these experiences and processes from the perspective of Buddhist Psychology.

In this first of four segments, Going Beyond - First Steps develop the preliminary skills necessary for recognizing and articulating phenomenological experiences as they arise in the mind body process during life experience and in therapeutic settings.

Going Beyond - First Steps

Date Level Credits Method Instructor Cost Alternatives

By arrangement - online or in person Introductory and Intermediate 5 hours - four one hour instructional media sessions and one hour teacher contact (four 15 minute teacher sessions or two 30 minute – i.e. after each media session or half way and at end respectively) Individual Sessions (in person, by telephone, online) Insight Meditation Teacher, Mary Rees, MS $75 - plus cost of CD (www.nutpub.com/goingbeyondcd.html) The objectives for this course are introduced in a more general way via the Insight and Mindfulness course. This program goes more deeply into experiential aspects of Buddhist teachings. The whole series can replace the Insight and Mindfulness course, but is recommended for follow up and enriching personal practice. (At this time one of four CDs have been published) To take this first course and work with these first level objectives - buy the Going Beyond CD. You can register for the course (for credit) from a link on the CD.

First level Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to articulate phenomenological experiences as they arise in their own mind/body process - preliminary skills necessary for awareness and work with qualities of mind by
• Finding breath and body
• Becoming familiar experientially with spacious qualities of mind
• Establishing the practice of concentration and self-kindness
• Finding balance and flexibility of mind in order to foster mindfulness within in private and in clinical settings

Currently only level one, First Steps, is available on CD ROM or other digital format.

If you would like to go further, the entire course (six to eight weeks by arrangement) is available in individual session at the rate of $100 per session. These can be in person or by telephone or Skype. Apply for individual work here.

This series combined with a dedicated mindfulness and insight practice can serve in as an apprenticeship in learning how to offer meditation instructions to clients.

Materials for this course may be used with clients by those who have taken this course with Mary Rees.