MBSR
Mindfulness meditation cycle

MINDFUL MEDITATION PROGRAMME – MBSR

This programme is open to all patients of the Antoine Lacassagne Center.

Do you want to discover or improve your knowledge of mindfulness taught as part of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction protocol founded by Professor Jon Kabat Zinn in the United States more than 40 years ago?

This programme aims to teach how you can take care of yourself, develop resources to deal with illness by training yourself to pay attention to your bodily sensations and your breathing to establish inner calm, become familiar with thoughts, emotions and sensations whether they are experienced as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, and develop an openness to others and to the world beyond reactivity patterns.

This programme is scientifically validated thanks to numerous clinical research studies, which have demonstrated benefits on pain, anxiety, depression and the quality of life of patients with chronic diseases.

It consists of an initiation workshop, eight weekly sessions on Fridays and an online practical day.

The workshops are led by Dr Kenza BOUREDJI, a hospital medical practitioner in oncology and MBSR instructor trained by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

The pedagogical approach will be experiential with alternating formal mindfulness practices (body scan, conscious body movements, sitting meditation, conscious walking) and moments for sharing and discussion.

The exercises are perfectly accessible to everyone regardless of their difficulties, disabilities, illnesses and symptoms.