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Scottish Autism - Online Mindfulness for Autism Group
Created: 19/09/2024
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
Mindfulness for Autism is a strengths-focused mindfulness approach that provides recovery and counteracts the negative sensory impact of the world for autistic adults and their carers. It also aims to reduce the impact of stress, isolation and fragmentation in autistic people and family members/carers of autistic people and aims to break this negative cycle, helping people to live a more self-aware, empowered and fulfilling life. There are eight one-hour weekly online Zoom sessions. Each session includes a presentation and a guided meditation on a theme and a facilitated Q&A / group dialogue.
Topics include:
- Mindful communication
- Sensory sensitivities
- Mindfulness and emotions
- Mindful relationships
- Self-care and compassion
- Masking and the authentic self
The facilitated group dialogue part of each session is important because thinking, experiences and stories are shared, in order to create a cohesive community of mindfulness friends. As an experienced facilitator, Amina will intuitively address the needs of participants in a semi-structured way, making these events a constructive setting for autistic people who normally find gatherings problematic.
The group will take place on Tuesdays from 15 October until 17 December 2024 (excluding 19th November) from 10am until 11am.
Each session will run via Zoom and are free to join.
Target Audience: Autistic individuals and family members of autistic people in Scotland (18+)
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