The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.
Four Tuesdays, January 12–February 2, 5:30–7:30 pm PT
“To be you is enough, you know…”
—Suzuki Roshi
Weaving together mindfulness and contemporary psychology, this course explores how to best take care of ourselves by relating to depression and anxiety with compassion and understanding. Our purpose is for participants to learn and practice how to interrupt conditioning that hinders feeling better and noticing what is good in our lives. We encourage each student through skillful means to cultivate common sense practices that help us manage and prevent chronic feelings of unhappiness.
By focusing on direct experience, we learn to see and disrupt habitual mind patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Each Tuesday’s two-hour class combines presentations, guided meditations, experiential exercises, and group discussion.
The focus for each week will be as follows:
Week One — Being in the Present Moment with Whatever Arises
Week Two — Recognizing and Interrupting Reactive Habit Patterns
Week Three — Relating to Difficulties with Compassion and Lovingkindness
Week Four — Strategies for Taking Care of Ourselves
During this class series, you will discover how it is possible for you to:
- Be released from the limiting storylines that you and others have told you about yourself
- Learn new skills that help untangle painful thoughts and self-criticism
- Build the capacity to be with emotional pain and distress with strength and courage
- Cultivate self-confidence and self-esteem as you practice using re-sculpting tools
- Learn to offer compassion and acceptance to yourself and others
- Cultivate a natural experience of peace, ease, and well-being
- Experience deeper authentic connection, presence, and vitality
- Feel better and have a more satisfying relationship to life
You are warmly invited to try the TDA (Transforming Depression and Anxiety) Practice Group once you have completed this course. It's an optional group that includes ongoing teaching to deepen TDA practice and community, meeting biweekly on Tuesdays from February 23 through May 4.
Practice Group information and registration for Transforming Depression and Anxiety Practice Group, Online 2/23–5/4.
Recordings:
All course sessions will be recorded, and registered participants will receive temporary access to the recordings for later viewing.
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $420 — supports others’ participation
- Standard ticket price: $336 — covers full program costs
- Member (Become an SFZC Member): $302 — for current SFZC members
- Supported: $202 — community supported rate
- Deeply Supported: $84 — for broadest accessibility
- Current SFZC residents and qualified SFZC retirees may attend this course for free. To register, please email onlineprograms@sfzc.org at least 72 hours before the program begins.
Or call 415-354-0360.
