How to Cope:
An MBSR Course
Develop mindfulness and meditation skills to support you through the changes, challenges, and joys of life.
How to Cope:
MBSR for everyday life.
The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course is an evidence based therapeutic program. Over 9 weeks of in-depth practice, develop mindfulness skills to support you through the changes, challenges, and joys of life.
Designed for beginners, you’ll learn to meditate in different ways, but more than that, learn to take your practices with you in your mind and heart, then out into your relationships, work, and the wider world at large. Guided my certified MBSR facilitator Becca Gross, you’ll come together every week for a 2.5hr workshop of learning, practice, and discussion. The course involves daily practice at home, plus a daylong silent mindfulness retreat to deepen your experience.
MBSR is a world-renowned clinical program, which research shows is effective for managing stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. It has been proven to have sustained improvements for a wide range of different groups of people, from supporting through times of illness to improving general quality of life.
It works through:
-Self-awareness: helping you better understand and respond to your thoughts and feelings.
-Mental flexibility: making it easier to shift perspective and adapt to challenging situations.
-Emotional Regulation: helping you manage difficult emotions and cope with stress more effectively.
Course includes:
8 x weekly workshops on Saturdays with Becca and the group
Daylong silent mindfulness retreat to deepen your practice
Recordings of practices for you to use daily at home
Comprehensive training manual to work through and keep
Dates
Saturdays | 10am – 12:30pm | 13 Sep – 8 Nov 2025
Day Retreat: 25 October
Location
Level 1, 60 Halifax Street, Adelaide. Kaurna Land.
Facilitators
Led by Becca Gross.
Investment
Impact: $795
Core: $695
Pay-what-you-can: available on request
PERFECT FOR
-Beginners to meditation and mindfulness practices
-People experiencing chronic pain
-Anyone needing support to manage stress levels
-Those wanting to integrate awareness practices into everyday life
-Beginners to meditation and mindfulness practices
-People experiencing chronic pain
-Anyone needing support to manage stress levels
-Those wanting to integrate awareness practices into everyday life
Course outline:
- Week 1: Introduction to mindfulness, recognising the present moment, ‘being’ mode of the mind.
- Week 2: Understanding perception and how we sense the world.
- Week 3: Practice, practice, practice – explore the differences between ‘being’ and ‘doing’.
- Week 4: Investigating stress and reactivity.
- Week 5: Explore conditioning, personal narratives, choice and interrupting habitual patterns.
- Silent day retreat this week
- Week 6: Apply mindfulness practices to interpersonal relationships
- Week 7: Living on purpose – Interacting with the world, skilful choices and self-care
- Week 8: Keeping the practice alive – making mindfulness a part of your life
ORIGINS
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His work was driven by a desire to explore the potential of mindfulness to address stress and pain, especially in individuals who didn't respond well to conventional medical treatments.
MBSR emerged as a secular, science-based approach to mindfulness, drawing on the wisdom traditions of Buddhism but adapting them for a modern, clinical context. The intention was to bridge the gap between science and dharma, and to contextualise Buddhist practices within a framework of psychological science.
While it draws from Buddhist psychology, this is a secular (non-religious) course. This makes it accessible to a broad range of people because you don’t need any spiritual orientation to participate.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His work was driven by a desire to explore the potential of mindfulness to address stress and pain, especially in individuals who didn't respond well to conventional medical treatments.
MBSR emerged as a secular, science-based approach to mindfulness, drawing on the wisdom traditions of Buddhism but adapting them for a modern, clinical context. The intention was to bridge the gap between science and dharma, and to contextualise Buddhist practices within a framework of psychological science.
While it draws from Buddhist psychology, this is a secular (non-religious) course. This makes it accessible to a broad range of people because you don’t need any spiritual orientation to participate.
Meet the facilitator: Becca Gross
I am a seeker of awe and joy. I am pulled by the magnetism of movement and mindfulness practices. And I believe in the power of communities as a force for change, connection and action.
I’ve been moving my body since inception, when microscopic cells began dividing in the magic of the womb. I’ve played sport, raced bikes and fallen in love with weights.
Throughout this, yoga has been a foundational part of how I take care of myself. And through the interconnection between movement and mindfulness I have found steady ground on which to stand.
I’ve trained with the amazing teachers at Power Living and Human.Kind and have recently completed a year long mindfulness teacher training through MTIA with Timmothea Goddard and Eva Papadopoulo to teach MBSR. I am incredibly inspired by the work of spiritual ecology through the teachings and work of Joanna Macy and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.
Read more about Becca HERE.
