One Day Mindfulness Retreat
Feb. 17th, 2024, 10am – 4pm
$100 registration (lunch included)
Questions? Email Cave Springs Camp
This personal wellness retreat offers an adult learning group setting to study Mindfulness. It’s a day to relax in nature. It’s a space for you to eat, breath and enjoy. The tools employed in each learning session will include:
- Introduction to Mindfulness
- Small group discussions
- Guided meditation exercises
Outcomes:
- Participants will experience the benefits of mindfulness as a stress reduction practice
- Participants will learn 3-4 mindfulness exercises that they can use to create a personal practice
- Participants will receive a list of mindfulness practice resources
Schedule:
9:30am: Check in and orientation to surroundings
10:00 – 11:30am: Learning session 1: Introduction to Mindfulness
11:30 – 12:30pm: Small group sensory activities – facilitated stations to explore mindfulness through sensory focal points
12:30 – 1:50pm: Lunch and free time, plus hike option
2:00 – 3:15pm: Learning Session 2: Paying Attention
3:20 – 4:00pm: Labyrinth: Mindful walking exercise
About the Mindfulness Facilitator
Rev. Sula A. Kosacky
After finishing seminary in 2012, Sula trained with the Canadian Association of Spiritual Care and worked as a chaplain, and eventually department head of Spiritual Care in the William Osler Healthcare System in Brampton, Ontario. She has also completed training with Mindfulness Without Borders, and is certified as a program facilitator. In 2019, she started designing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs to support frontline healthcare staff, and was invited to present a theory paper on the program at the International Conference on Mindfulness in Auckland, New Zealand. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, she helped several healthcare organizations in Toronto, Oakville, Brampton and Mississauga create and implement MBSR support programs for frontline medical staff. Today she works in a United Church of Canada congregational setting in order to provide wellness and support programming for the church and wider community.
