ABSTRACT

Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively participating in the teaching  and learning moments and turning points encountered in teaching and learning mindfulness around themes such as making space for mindfulness, safeguarding mindfulness for women, engendering mindfulness, mindfulness dreaming and a mandala of wisdoms. Evocative accounts of experience bring to life the women’s growing awareness that mindfulness can be both a separate practice and a natural part of life and that it can help them to nurture what they have neglected in themselves by not tapping into the full spectrum of their experience. Each chapter provides useful follow-up activities and questions for individual or group reflection, journaling, sharing and conversation.

Empowering Mindfulness for Women is aimed at those who teach mindfulness to women in educational, community or clinical settings and at women who want to learn mindfulness in a manner that positions them as experts in their own learning.

chapter 1|16 pages

Polarity Mindedness

chapter 2|31 pages

Day One

Making space for mindfulness

chapter 3|27 pages

Day Two

Safeguarding mindfulness for women

chapter 4|25 pages

Day Three

Engendering mindfulness

chapter 5|27 pages

Day Four

Mindfulness dreaming

chapter 6|20 pages

Day Five

A mandala of wisdoms

chapter 7|6 pages

Full-Spectrum Mindfulness