Everyday Mindfulness
Rose Auyeung-Chen
Rose specialises in mood disorders, vocational rehabilitation, crisis intervention, self-harm, emotion regulation, stress management, and conflict resolution. She is trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is currently working in her private practice as well as a Clinical Counsellor at the BC Occupational Stress Injury Clinic treating persistent psychological difficulty resulting from operational duties performed during military or RCMP service. She also worked at Vancouver General Hospital’s Mental Health and Substance Use Outpatient Services for eight years providing group and individual therapy for a variety of mental health conditions. She is also a TEDx speaker and has over ten years of experience working with children and youth.
- Recording: Yes
- Language: English
- Duration: 45 min / 15 min
Session Summar
Explore the practice of mindfulness and its powerful benefits, from reduced stress and improved focus, to greater emotional balance and relationship satisfaction. Participants are guided through simple, sensory-based mindfulness exercises that promote presence and self-compassion. Rose Auyeung-Chen shares practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life, encouraging small actions and moments of pause to foster calm, clarity, and overall well-being.
Interaction
During the expert session, Rose Auyeung-Chen engages the audience through methods like a Q&A session, live demonstrations of mindfulness exercises, and using the Mentimeter app for interactive polls and reflections. The audience is encouraged to describe their surroundings using all five senses in an exercise designed to help calm the mind and focus attention on the present moment. Rose emphasizes the importance of self-compassion during mindfulness practice and offers practical tips for incorporating mindfulness into daily life, using the Mentimeter app to encourage reflection and commitment among attendees.
Key Learnings
- Cultivating Mindfulness for Enhanced Clarity and Focus: Practicing mindfulness through exercises like the 5-4-3-2-1 sensory engagement or progressive muscle relaxation helps calm the mind, improve focus, and increase cognitive flexibility.
- Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life: Simple actions such as taking deep breaths during challenging situations, practicing cognitive flexibility with negative thoughts, and engaging in daily sensory awareness can significantly enhance overall wellbeing and reduce stress levels.
- Interactive Mindfulness Techniques for Improved Mental Health: Utilizing tools like the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise or progressive muscle relaxation, as well as interactive elements such as the Mentimeter app, can encourage reflection, commitment to mindfulness practices, and improve mental health by providing practical and effective techniques for managing stress and promoting positive thinking.
Detailed session description
In this expert session, Rose shares insights into the practice of mindfulness and its numerous benefits. By engaging in mindfulness exercises, individuals can experience increased clarity, cognitive flexibility, reduced stress, enhanced focus, improved emotional reactivity, and greater relationship satisfaction.
Rose begins by guiding participants through a simple mindfulness exercise. She encourages everyone to find a comfortable seated position, focusing on the breath or a specific object as an anchor for their awareness. Then she leads the group through a series of steps, encouraging them to engage all five senses and describe what they perceive. This includes identifying various sounds, textures, sights, and even new sounds and textures as the exercise progresses. She emphasizes the importance of being gentle with oneself during these exercises, allowing for natural distractions and bringing focus back to the present moment rather than criticizing oneself.
Rose also encourages participants to practice mindfulness in their daily lives, emphasizing small actions such as cognitive flexibility and emotional financing to manage stress and cultivate positive thinking.
Throughout the session, Rose uses interactive elements, such as asking participants to commit to simple actions for bringing calm into their daily lives, to engage attendees and encourage reflection. The expert session concludes by emphasizing the importance of finding a moment of pause before the day ends, highlighting that even brief moments of mindfulness can make a positive impact on mental well-being.
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