Mind-Body Skills Workshop: An Introduction to Practical Tools to Reduce Stress and Cultivate Resilience

Mind-Body Skills Groups use powerful and effective healing practices developed by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine to help participants develop skills that can enable them not only to come back from hardships they may have experienced but also to gracefully navigate difficulties that are yet to come. We will learn how practices like meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, and self-expression in words, drawings, and movement can reduce stress and increase resilience.

This is a 2-hour workshop to introduce Mind-Body Skills. Mind-Body Skills groups are highly experiential and integrate techniques such as Meditation, Guided Imagery, Autogenic training, Breath Work, Movement, Drawing and other approaches into a supportive group environment. Everyone can benefit from a Mind-Body Skills Group and find support in making changes in their lives, whether the desire is to decrease stress, increase coping ability, decrease pain (physical or emotional), manage anxiety or depression more effectively, or enhance immune function. This workshop is designed to sample the Mind-Body Skills Group experience. Those who enjoy and are intrigued by this experience can sign up for a free, 8-week Mind-Body Skills Group that will start October 13.

Alison Lobb: Before joining the Sonoma County Probation Department as a Program Planning and Evaluation Analyst (where she supports efforts to help clients live successful, crime-free lives), Alison Lobb worked internationally as a government advisor on poverty issues. She spent 13 years as a volunteer law enforcement chaplain and hospital chaplain. Alison currently volunteers as a co-facilitator of Alternatives to Violence Project workshops with inmates at Folsom Prison. This year, she was trained by the Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative to become a facilitator of Mind-Body Skills workshops and groups. Alison has been a friend of The Journey Center for several years.

Dayla Fillmore: Dayla Fillmore has been working for the Sonoma County Probation Department for the past 12 years. As a Probation Officer, in her current position at the Day Reporting Center, she teaches Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, Aggression Replacement Training, and Advanced Practices to adult offenders. Prior to working at the DRC, Dayla worked with juveniles in Probation, at Juvenile Hall, and at the Sierra Youth Center, with a focus on programming and promoting positive behavior change. Through her commitment to helping people learn tools to live a safe and happy life, she was trained by the Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative to become a facilitator of mind-body skills workshops and groups.