neurodivergent mindfulness

Number of sessions: 10 Start date: January 31st Frequency: Sessions weekly on Wednesdays, 11:30AM-1:00 PM Location: in-person, Hadley Office, 4 Bay Rd, Hadley, MA 01035

Registration Deadline: January 6th

Facilitators

Ariel Pliskin, LICSW & Rachel Rocklin, MA

About the group

Integrating personal and social liberation, this course will teach skills for focus, emotional regulation and communication. Sessions will offer check-ins, brain science education and guided practice in techniques like meditation and yoga for all bodies. You will be invited to set personalized habit goals between sessions with support to transform your intentions into lasting results. This course can empower you to:

• Reduce stress, anxiety or depression 

• Navigate big feelings

• Get things done 

• Show up fully in relationships

• Serve your community 

• Live a life of meaning

Units:

1 Overview

2 Practice Mindfulness 

3 Understand the Social Context

4 Stay within the Window of Tolerance

5 Regulate Emotions

6 Communicate Nonviolently

7 Clarify values

8 Challenge Self-Limiting Beliefs

9 flexible

10 Conclusion

Weekly Agenda:

• Guided Mindfulness Practice

• Group norms: 

• Check in circle: report progress on previous intentions

• Lesson:

• Small group discussion:  

• Individual activity:

• Check-out circle: 

• Reflections about the day meeting

• Setting weekly intention

Insurances accepted

BlueCross BlueShield, Optum, United Healthcare, United Behavior health, Beacon, GIC/Unicare, Medicare, MBHP (non-standard MassHealth), Harvard Pilgrim, Health New England, Tufts Public

This group will strive to be trauma-aware, anti-racist, and aligned with a neurodiversity paradigm.