Parent Support Network and Family Leader Protibha Gupta present - Working with Difficult Emotions Through Mindfulness - an 8-week virtual mindfulness course for parents and caregivers of children with disabilities.

This virtual program will run every Thursday from 12pm-1:15pm from Thursday September 18th, 2025 to Thursday November 6th, 2025. Those who may need to leave at 1pm are welcome to do so.

Alongside a short but complete discussion and practice of the foundations of mindfulness, participants will learn to cultivate ways to deal mindfully with difficult habit patterns, emotions and beliefs, areas of experience where we often find ourselves stuck, and practices geared towards enhancing self-compassion. Some of the difficult emotions we will discuss working with include anxiety/stress, grief, anger, fear and irritation.

No prior meditation practice experience is necessary but the course is also geared to those with meditation experience. Each hour-long session will include short talks, guided meditations, small group discussions and Q&A.

Attendees will learn:

- How to meditate through guided meditations

- The foundations of mindfulness of breath/body, feelings and thoughts

- Daily mini-mindfulness and self-compassion practices

- How to gain insight into and soften long-standing habit patterns, difficult emotions and beliefs.

If you have any questions, if you require language interpretation or any other accommodations, please reply to this email or contact Stephanie Moynagh at 416-425-6220 ext. 6146 prior to the event.

Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing and want to reach us by phone? Try Relay Service: www.bell.ca/Accessibility_services/Bell_Relay_service. Or if you have a TTY or VCO phone, dial 711 and give the number provided.