Mindful-Gym Booster Session
Date : 16th August, 2014
(Saturday)
Time : 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Venue : Lecture Hall, Brickfields Maha
Vihara, KL
No. of participants: 24
The MINDFULGym Booster Session
was successfully organized by Catherine, Eng Chong and Jasmine. This session was open to all the
Mindful-Gym graduates (Batch 1 - 8). The main objective was to provide opportunity for revising what had been learned in the 5-week Mindful-Gym program. Activities were carried out in fun and meaningful ways. The session started with a 55-minute movie sharing - “Room to Breath.” This is a movie on application of mindfulness in a high school setting for attention and emotional regulation. Students were taught mindful hearing, mindful body, mindful breathing, mindful eating and purposeful thinking, i.e. sending good wishes to themselves and others.
After the movie and tea-break, we had ice-breaking. The participants were divided into 3 groups, which were named after the MINDFULGym slogan (Be Present, Be
Calm, and Be Grateful). The leaders for
the groups were Dr. Phang (Be Present), Sis. Mi Yen (Be Calm) ,and Madam. Tan WK (Be Grateful). In the ice breaking, they were required to remember one another's name and respond to the following questions:
1. Share one main message that you've learned from the movie
2. Name one of the tools taught in Mindful School program
3. Give one benefit of
practicing mindfulness.
4. What is the training definition of
mindfulness?
5. What is the slogan of Mindful-gym?
6. Name one of the tools taught in MINDFULGym
7. Name one of the
thinking errors taught in MINDFULGym
8. Tell us one thing that went well for the past one week
You'll be gently & mindfully hammered if you don't get the correct answer...
More revision of MINDFULGym tools through games:
That was just warming up...
After forming a big circle, a durian was passed around while a song related to mindfulness was playing. When the song stopped, the person holding the durian would pick a piece of paper. Written on the paper was one of the several questions/tasks designed for reminding them to practice mindfulness:
- Choose a mindful stretching posture (PMR style) & lead the group in practice
- Demonstrate deep & mindful breathing (i.e. gi gong style) & lead the group in practice
- Sing the song, “Happiness is here and now” & get others to sing along
- Lead the group in practicing 'Mindful-S.T.O.P.'
- Share an example of how you apply 'A.A.M.' (Accept, Adjust & Move On) in life
- Radiate kindness with the song, "Rasa Sayang" (MINDFULGym version)
Yeah, got gifts one...
A gift (e.g. smiley ball) was given to the
person who could answer the question or perform the task well. Durian was used in the game (instead of a ball) to reinforce mindful attention to touch sensations. This was followed by gratitude training through 3-Gratitude Cards.
Before the end of the session, Dr. Phang shared
with us on a new Mindful-Gym tool. It is known as “Goggle-WWW-WhatsApp” [Google/mentally search for someone 'Who Wish Wellness' (WWW), and WhatsApp positive wishes to the person. This is a simple way of remind ourselves to cultivate loving-kindness (Metta). May you be well & happy.
