CARES
Compassion, Awareness and Relationship Skills to Ease Stress (CARES™) CARES™ teaches you how to be compassionate toward yourself and others. CARES™ is a 6-week program that reduces stress, boosts emotional resilience and increases vitality. CARES™ cultivates compassion, mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Through experiential exercises and lively discussion, psychotherapist and health educator Tia Rich, PhD, helps you to develop a stress reduction tool kit for life that includes practical breathing, relaxation, self-awareness, values-based decision making, relationship, and communication skills. CARES™ improves your health and wellness, whether you are currently in good health or are experiencing a stress-related condition such as pain, rashes, GI distress, infertility, disordered eating, panic attacks or heart disease. CARES™ enhances mindfulness based stress reduction. People who struggle with maintaining mindfulness in the midst of physical discomfort or persistent emotions, such as anxiety, grief, or loneliness, find that their mindfulness can be sustained with one simple powerful ingredient: compassion.
Date: Tuesdays, 10/18-11/29 (no class 11/22
Time: 5:45–7:30 pm
Location: Building 200 (Lane History Corner), Rm 105
Class fee: $255 (course fee includes workbook)
STAP/EA Funds: YES
Instructor: Tia Rich, PhD, a psychotherapist and mindful yoga instructor, has been integrating mindfulness, compassion and meditation into stress management programs for Stanford University and Medical Center since 1984.