peermindfulness.org
peer-run, peer-oriented mindfulness by and for people with disabilities, health concerns, and/or emotional challenges
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Monday Mindfulness Meditation
Our Monday Mindfulness Meditation meets on Zoom Mondays at 3:30 PM (Eastern US).Monday Mindfulness is a gentle, peer-oriented mindfulness meditation group.As a meditation group, we have no religious or spiritual affiliation. Our focus is mindfulness and meditation.Our aim is to support each other in learning about and building our meditative and mindfulness practices. We are dedicated to being a supportive space where we learn together to apply mindfulness practices in our daily lives, particularly as people living with disabilities and other ongoing challenges.
Monday Mindfulness practice is entirely free of any cost or obligation and is unaffiliated with any particular religious group or tradition. Our goal is mindfulness availability and accessibility for all.
Regional Time Zone Equivalents in the US for Monday Mindfulness:
(3:30 PM Eastern; 2:30 PM Central; 1:30 PM Mountain; 12:30 PM Pacific)
About us
peermindfulness.org is an initiative to foster gentle, respectful mindfulness practices among people living with disabilities, health difficulties, and/or histories of emotional distress.we are peer-oriented, which means that we welcome people with lived experience of any of the above issues and concerns to participate and to practice.we also wish to advocate, and to be a platform, for peers with lived experience to facilitate accessible meditations and other mindfulness activities and practices.
Contact Us
Please send us a message to receive the Zoom link for Monday Mindfulness Practice and for more information about peermindfulness.org
Thank you
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COMFORT AGREEMENT &
GROUP GUIDELINES
To ensure a safe, positive experience for everyone who attends, we have the following comfort agreement and guidelines to address the way we treat each other in our meditation groups and every activity offered by peermindfulness.orgA SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR MINDFULNESS PRACTICE:
The goal of peermindfulness.org is to offer a supportive space to practice mindfulness and meditation. Meditations at peermindfulness.org are peer-oriented, open-hearted, and accessible to all, to the best of our abilities and resources. Although our meditations are not support groups, we provide a supportive space to learn and practice mindfulness and meditation together.NO RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL AFFILIATION:
As an organization, peermindfulness.org has no religious or spiritual affiliation. All are welcome to attend our events.INVITATION, TIMELINESS, AND MUTUAL RESPECT:
We welcome newcomers! If you wish to attend one of our meditations, please get in contact with us (see Contact Form).
We appreciate timely arrivals, but should you arrive late to a meditation, we ask you to please join quietly.WHAT TO EXPECTBEFORE THE MEDITATION: We begin with an introduction to the practice of mindfulness meditation and our guidelines for practice.DURING THE MEDITATION: During the period of the practice, we ask everyone to turn off microphones to prevent background noise. Some people prefer to turn their cameras off at this time, but it's fine to leave your camera on or off, as you choose.AFTER THE MEDITATION: After practice, we offer an optional discussion to share our experiences of the day’s meditation. All are free to participate at their comfort level, or simply to listen.
Our intention in sharing experiences of the meditation is to support each other’s practice of mindfulness and meditation. Because peermindfulness.org is a peer space of non-directive accompaniment, we emphasize using “I” statements to describe our own personal experiences.