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Mindfully Calm The Waves Of Stress
With Derek HillOver the next 5 days, we'll explore some of the biggest challenges we face with stress in our busy modern lives. Instead of trying to 'end' stress, or make it 'the enemy', we'll explore the origin of stress and the vital role it plays in both protecting us and shaping our experience of everyday life. Working through common scenarios and struggles, we'll share powerful practices and well-being habit-builders, rooted in neuroscience, so you can respond to the difficulties and challenges you encounter - alleviating the stress and anxiety you experience and lowering the risk of burnout. To achieve this, we'll invite 5 powerful waves: 1) Waves of Intention: so we "show up" purposefully, to bring about sustainable change. 2) Waves of Calm: to stabilize and ease reactivity before the ripples of stress become waves. 3) Waves of Vitality: to encourage conscious reflective pauses in self-care habits and practices. 4) Waves of Compassion: so we recognize our struggles and turn down the self-critical voice. 5) Waves of Stillness: to cultivate inner stillness, so future response from this place instead. This course is ideal if you: - want powerful practices to help you respond in moments of stress, overwhelm, or anxiety - need to tune out of the busyness of modern life and see choices with greater clarity - seek lasting sustainable and intentional change in your health and wellbeing It will be a reliable place of stability, presence, and balance Where you can “Mindfully Calm the Waves of Stress”
Consciously invite these 5 powerful waves of mindfulness to alleviate stress, anxiety and overwhelm and cultivate more calm and balance in life.
About this course
Over the next 5 days, we'll explore some of the biggest challenges we face with stress in our busy modern lives. Instead of trying to 'end' stress, or make it 'the enemy', we'll explore the origin of stress and the vital role it plays in both protecting us and shaping our experience of everyday life. Working through common scenarios and struggles, we'll share powerful practices and well-being habit-builders, rooted in neuroscience, so you can respond to the difficulties and challenges you encounter - alleviating the stress and anxiety you experience and lowering the risk of burnout. To achieve this, we'll invite 5 powerful waves: 1) Waves of Intention: so we "show up" purposefully, to bring about sustainable change. 2) Waves of Calm: to stabilize and ease reactivity before the ripples of stress become waves. 3) Waves of Vitality: to encourage conscious reflective pauses in self-care habits and practices. 4) Waves of Compassion: so we recognize our struggles and turn down the self-critical voice. 5) Waves of Stillness: to cultivate inner stillness, so future response from this place instead. This course is ideal if you: - want powerful practices to help you respond in moments of stress, overwhelm, or anxiety - need to tune out of the busyness of modern life and see choices with greater clarity - seek lasting sustainable and intentional change in your health and wellbeing It will be a reliable place of stability, presence, and balance Where you can “Mindfully Calm the Waves of Stress”
Meet your Teacher
Derek Hill believes in creating opportunities for genuine connection, with ourselves, nature, and each other. Supporting people to look inwardly, with self-compassion - helping them uncover their inner resources for self-support and purposeful direction in life. He is a mindfulness and compassion teacher, speaker, and coach, accredited by the Counseling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB). He teaches 4 to 8-week courses, including Jon Kabat-Zinn's gold standard "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction." He works with individuals, groups, and organizations to inspire greater happiness, health, and human connection in life and work. Derek's course ‘Waves of Connection’ was drawn from both his teaching qualifications, as well his own personal life and professional experiences. He has coached and mentored people for 20 years in high-stress corporate environments, as well as purpose-driven ‘technology for good’ organizations like JustGiving and Farewill, where he spent many wonderful years working with not-for-profit organizations. Derek is sincerely committed to helping others realize their potential, creativity, and fundamental connection to self, others, and the universe. Derek moved to London from his hometown in Dublin. His early life in Ireland colored so much of what he had learned throughout life. Having graduated in creative writing, he always found great inspiration in the books of others, whether fictional, philosophical, or those challenging conventions. Throughout his professional career, where he enjoyed the highs and lows of working abroad, growing businesses, and making a purposeful impact, there was always a pull towards the traditions and philosophies, which inspire his work today. A few life-changing events and an ever-growing personal commitment to meditation practice, finally nudged him to retrain as a mindfulness and compassion teacher, picking up a CPCAB-accredited Level 4 qualification, as well as training to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Derek then redesigned his life around a passion and purpose, so he could sustainably support his health and well-being and that of his family. He founded his company Waking Waves to make this possible and is now on his mindful mission to share the benefits of mindfulness and compassion with others, so they can too!