Free Online 3-Week Workshop: Working with Limiting Beliefs
I'll be offering this workshop starting Sunday, September 20 at noon Eastern US (time zone converter here). Each session will be about two hours. For more info, read on!
Please note that at times my life is unpredictable, so I may need to change the date and I’ll keep you informed if that happens. I appreciate your forbearance around that.
“Beliefs” is a big word and can mean a lot of different things. There can be belief in your higher power, belief in yourself, or the belief in the goodness of people when you see them practice caring and compassion. You might consider those positive, onward-leading beliefs that support and nourish us. In this session we’re going to work with what are called limiting beliefs, or negative core beliefs. Beliefs that we hold deeply but get in the way of living our fullest lives. These may be beliefs about how the outside world and the people in it “should” be. But more often they are beliefs about ourselves. And they tend to be so deeply held we don’t see them—we just experience the consequences of believing them.
Here is a breakdown of the sessions:
Week 1: We'll review various aspects of beliefs including how they arise and how our human minds tend to perpetuate them, even when we can see they are unhelpful. We’ll then use the RAIN practice to look for and work with limiting beliefs.*
Week 2: We'll see how our limiting beliefs can become entangled with our deepest core values. When that happens, we can experience shame and guilt even when we are doing something that we otherwise might find meaningful; we are also more likely to burn ourselves out. So finding those beliefs and softening them can bring more fulfillment and energy into our lives.
Week 3: We’ll then explore The Work by Byron Katie, which offers a very different approach for enlarging our perspective around negative beliefs so they have less power over us.
The goal of this workshop is to provide you with lots of tools to bring unhelpful beliefs into consciousness and then be able to work with them in a way that gives you more choice around how you are affected by them. Previous experience with mindfulness and meditation is helpful, but not required. After the first session I’ll provide a Dropbox link that you can access going forward with recordings and handouts that go over what we cover. To sign up, you can view the waiver and register here or use the button below.
This session is offered freely to make it as accessible as possible. If you find it valuable, and if you are able, please consider making a donation either to Imagine Mindfulness, a non-profit working to make mindfulness courses accessible to people around the world, or to the non-profit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, a great place to relearn how to be kind to yourself. Or to any other nonprofit you wish---there is so much need out there.
If you have any questions, feel free to use the Contact page to reach me or email me directly at modestlymindful@gmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in this!
*If you are not familiar with it, RAIN stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Nurture. It is a skillful way to work with emotions, and since many emotions are driven by underlying beliefs, we can uncover those beliefs as we practice learning from difficult emotions (rather than just trying to avoid them!).
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