Integrating Joy into the Body and Mind

Integrating Joy into the Body and Mind

A meditation workshop on Sympathetic Joy, Delight, and the Developing of Better Self-Esteem and Healthier Relationships

Half-day Online Meditation Workshop
  • Date: Saturday, 1st Apr 2023
  • Instructor: Cedric Reeves
  • Cost: Sliding scale

Join us for this workshop where we'll develop the capacity for sympathetic joy in formal meditation practice and then integrate it into the body and into daily life through visualization meditation

The intended outcome is to learn Sympathetic-Joy meditation. Mudita greases the wheels of life, making life sweeter and easier. We will practice in order to integrate sympathetic joy into our daily walking around life.

This program is for people who are interested in developing more friendliness towards self and other. You don't have to be a Buddhist to do this practice.

Who is this for?

  • For anyone who wants to go from insecure to secure attachment.
  • Suitable for anyone new to attachment-work, or is already experienced.
  • People with Insecure Attachment.
  • For anyone who is willing to do the work to get results

Event Date & Time

1st Apr 2023

workshop Schedule

There will be 3 sessions of 60 minutes each, for 5 hours total.

Each session is like this:

Duration Activity
10 mins Lecture
40 mins Guided Meditation
5 mins Q&A

We will be doing deep work. For that reason please feel free to take a break at any point.

workshop Overview

This program is suitable for beginners to meditation and healing work.

In this half day meditation workshop we will firstly cultivate the capacity to feel joy. Secondly, we will work to integrate joy into the body and mind with transformation of our every day life as our goal.

List of meditations:

  1. Traditional Sympathetic Joy Meditation
  2. Inhabiting Joy: Joy in the body
  3. Experiencing being the Cause of Joy for others (Perfect Nurturers Reinforcement Meditation).
  4. Internalizing the Delight of Others in order to Develop Better Self-Esteem and Moving Through Life Anticipating that Others find us Delightful
  5. Joy as a means of Cherishing Others more: Practicing Delight in others as a means to Deepen Peer-to-Peer Relationships, work through Social Anxiety and Lessen the Sense of Social Isolation.
  6. Developing Self-Esteem due to our own Positive Qualities.
  7. Developing “Uncaused” and “Unconditional” Self-Esteem
  8. Schema Repatterning Meditation on Low Self-Esteem

 

 

This Course uses an Evidence Based modality

The techniques and methods in this course are very similar to those used in the Attachment Theory & Repair 2022 Course, in which participants' perceived security and felt safeness improved by 33% and 61% respectively, and their feelings of anxiety and depression lessened.

Read the Study

Miscellaneous Notes

There will be time for Q&A and spot coaching.

We will be doing deep work. For that reason please feel free to take a break at any point.

Who is this for?

This program is for those of us who...

  • are looking to improve their psychological health
  • want to optimize their psychological health
  • want to intentionally cultivate joy and integrate it into daily life.

Healing Together

Shared interest and social support can make meditation practice, study, and healing much easier.

Make friends in the course on the slack channel and invite friends who you think could benefit to participate in the course.

Benefits

These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program

Theoretical Understanding

  • The importance of Sympathetic Joy (Mudita) and how to cultivate it
  • Understanding of how Sympathetic Joy can be integrated into daily life in order to transform it.
  • Understanding of how cultivating Sympathetic Joy can transform our early attachment conditioning and improve our general well-being and our relationships with self and others.

For your relationships

  • More Joy as a base line experience which improves life and relationship quality.

Frequently Asked Questions

About Participation

Once you sign up, an email will be sent out to you with a Zoom link. It will allow you to access the live classes. A free Zoom account is necessary, and Zoom needs to be installed on your computer before the event starts.
No, this course is open to anyone, regardless of your familiarity with attachment theory or prior meditation experience.
Yes, and in fact we highly encouraged you to do both.

Payment Questions

If for any reason you aren’t satisfied, simply contact us and we will send you a full refund.
If you are experiencing troubles with your payment, simply contact us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
There are other payment methods listed on our donations page. Otherwise contact us for other options. If you lack any ability to make online payments, let us know and we can sign you up for free.

Technical Questions

The recordings will be available for two more months after the course ends.
The recordings will be made available as video and also as audio-only.

If you are experiencing any technical issues relating to accessing the material or live sessions, please get in touch with us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

We can be reached with our online contact form.

Testimonials

This is what participants of prior workshops have to say:

Dani

Thank you for continuing to make these classes. When I am able to attend, they make a really positive contribution to my mental health :)

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Please note: This program is offered for educational purposes only and is not group-therapy, counselling or any kind of other psychotherapy, nor is it a substitute for the aforementioned. The instructor Cedric Reeves is a meditation teacher, not a psychotherapist, counsellor, or otherwise therapist.