This past year has been difficult on so many levels. If you feel like you are facing a lot, you’re not alone. The people who cope well with a difficult moment are usually the ones who are not blindly optimistic. According to Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist from Vienna, it’s those who are able to cultivate a sense of tragic optimism: the ability to maintain hope and find meaning in crisis.
Join us for a guided meditation and journaling workshop to find hope and self-compassion during an unprecedented time - and cultivate a sense of tragic optimism. It’ll be gentle, accessible, and low-key. Come as you are. Take a moment to reflect and reset for the new year.
Together you will learn and discover:
How to find hope and self-compassion under new circumstances.
How to reflect on the year that has passed, and your hopes for the coming year.
How loving-kindness meditation can be used to ground yourself in moments of stress.
How to cultivate self-compassion under difficult circumstances.
How journaling can be a tool to enable visualisation.
The benefits of journaling and meditation:
Improves mood by helping you to reflect on and prioritize problems, fears and concerns.
Helps you to recognize triggers and better ways to control them
Helps to reduce stress, manage anxiety and cope with depression.
How it works:
Book a ticket through Eventbrite, and we will send you the Zoom workshop link 24 hours before
Use a laptop/computer for a seamless user experience.
While we could love for you to have your camera on - this is safe space for everyone - we understand if you do not want to. When you join us your camera will be off and your audio will be muted.
Please kindly keep your audio on mute throughout the workshop.
We share our thoughts and feelings using both the chat function and audio.
Please remove all distractions - emails, mobile phones, TV.
What you will need:
To be sitting in a quiet space, where you feel safe, without fear of interruptions.
A journal/ notepad and pen.
A good speaker / headphones for a more intimate experience.
Recommended: a candle / matches / lighter, and a cup of herbal tea / water.
About us:
Mendü is a self-care app with empowering journaling prompts to rise for Womxn of Colour (WoC). Our mission is to provide the tools so WoC can do the inner work and collectively rise. So we can be the heroines of our own stories.
YSM8 is on a mission to help you develop your awareness, cultivate compassion and deepen your spiritual practice. We’re here to help you celebrate your whole self, embrace your vulnerabilities and express yourself honestly. We uplift each other by caring for our community and ourselves.