Do you miss the JOY of everyday life? have a lot of inner dialogue? and maybe even a lot of worries?

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Then this course is for you!

 

"Awakening Joy - 10  Steps to Happiness”  is based on James Baraz’s teachings (which thousands have participated in since 2003) and his book by the same name. 

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What can I expect from the course "Awakening Joy"?
 

In this course you will learn to cultivate Joy, Happiness, Peace, Kindness (toward ourselves and others) and Well-Being by use of Mindfulness.

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The course is not a “feel good” course but a “feel everything” course. By using mindfulness, you will learn to be on the lookout for joy and pleasant moments. Furthermore, you will be working with intention setting, gratitude, letting go, connections, forgiveness, and how to embrace difficult emotions with kindness and compassion.

All in all, you will learn to cultivate kindness towards yourself (and others), and learn to take in the good moments in life, too see them and marinate in them in order to build new pathways of joy and well-being in our brain. 

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The course is based on “what you practice grows stronger”, brain plasticity and neuroscience. The neuroscience researcher Rick Hanson says “positive experiences are like Teflon for the brain, and negative experiences are like Velcro”.  So in order for the positive experiences to register in the brain we need 1) mindfulness to put a light on them, and 2) marinate/concentrate on the pleasant moments in life, and thus new neural pathways of well-being can be built in the brain.

We are genetically wired to look out for danger. In this course we will try to help our brain to be on the lookout for the good in life; kind of helping ourselves to see the glass as half full instead of half empty.

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Outline - session by session:

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1. Intention for Joy

2. Mindfulness

3. Gratitude

4. Joy in Difficult Times

5. Integrity/The Bliss of Blamelessness

6. Appreciating Ourselves

7. Connection with others (incl. forgiveness)

8. Compassion

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Practical Information

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Dates 2025
 

Thursday   27/2

Thursday   6/3

Thursday     13/3

  Thursday     20/3

 Thursday     27/3

Thursday      3/4

Thursday    10/4

Thursday    24/4

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Target group:
For everyone who would like to have more JOY in their life.
...and for you who would like to live a life with more joy, strength, peace and resilience - and maybe even learn to see the glass half full instead of half empty?

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Where:

Shakti House
Ruthsvej 6, kl. sal.
2900 Hellerup

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duration:

We will meet from 17:00-19:00 - approximately 2 hours each week for a period of 10 weeks 

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Price per person for participating in a group:

DKK: 4,650-

 

Reduced price to students, retired and people without a job. If needed, you can split the payment 

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Teachers:

Anita Abel Hansen

Dorte Olivarius Koustrup

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