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1-to-1 Coaching

Interactive Mindfulness Coaching to support you and your goals.

This course includes:

  • The Unified Mindfulness Signature Technique.
  • A Technique to be able to access Rest and Recharge even at your busiest
  • The Attentional Skills of Mindfulness and how to practise and develop them
  • A unique approach to taking Mindfulness into your whole day
  • Strategies to manage stress and anxiety
  • What to watch out for in your practice so you can work with challenges that arise

Program Description

There are many benefits of having a coach. A Coach knows that mindfulness, like the training of any skill, needs a clear framework to support skill development. They'll give you the clarity you need to minimise confusion and maximise the quality of your practice time. This kind of clarity helps ensure that you'll be effective. You're increasing your chances of experiencing higher quality benefits in a shorter periods of time.

Our individual coaching is very interactive. Having a coach who really listens in order understand your experience and your goals means they can help you make the most of your meditation practice. They can offer you different ways to implement your mindfulness skills that are clear, easy to understand and designed to meet your particular situations and interests. When practice rewards appear a coach can suggest techniques and options to make the most of those opportunities. When challenges arise in practice or in life they can help with mindfulness techniques and strategies here as well.

They'll show you 'How it Works, Why it Matters and What to Do!'

A Coach is familiar with the wide range of techniques available in the Unified Mindfulness System. A wide range of techniques means you are more likely to find one or more that speak to you. When you understand how to focus on an experience that you find interesting you are that much more motivated to keep up the practice. Having options means that there area always new and interesting discoveries to make. As you interests and your practice grows and changes a coach can help you find new and meaningful ways to continue to train your skills.

A Coach can help you build your own individual set of techniques and show you how to change and adapt the techniques you use over time based on your changing experience.

A Coach will support you making mindfulness practice an established habit. They'll show you exactly how to take mindfulness into your whole day with a unique approach.

If you've wanted to start a mindfulness practice but are a little overwhelmed with the options out there you know that at Aussie Meditation you're getting a very solid, science-based and comprehensive foundation thanks to the Unified System.

What You’ll Learn

Mindfulness develops your attention.

As a result of practice how you relate to your experience of life changes.

Mindfulness skills give you access your own readily available source of fulfillment. Your happiness and wellbeing become less reliant on external circumstances. That is motivating, making you more inspired to achieve what you want in the world while also working with challenges more calmly and effectively.

Mindfulness supports happiness in 5 broad areas.

  • Reducing Suffering
  • Increasing Fulfillment
  • Knowing Yourself
  • Skillfull Action
  • Connection

Some of these areas may speak to you more readily than others. A coach works with you to understand what your goals are. They are there to support your happiness in ways that matter to you.

You can still be someone who works for change in the world while your own experience of struggle within is transformed through mindfulness practice.

  • A unique and highly developed approach to interactive coaching which allows a meditator to get the most out of working with a coach
  • Techniques, Strategies and more to help you work with challenges and take advantage the rewards of practice
  • Coaching that focus on you and your goals
  • We use the Unified Mindfulness ‘Happiness Grid’ to help establish how you want to focus your practice to make the most of your time practicing
  • Our sessions include ‘What to Do, Why it Matters and What to Do’
  • Each session includes a period of Mindfulness practice

This course includes:
— Class length: 1.5 hours
— Documents to Support Learning
— No experience necessary

FAQs

I don't think I can meditate because I have a busy mind. Do I need to be able to 'clear my mind?'

Not at all.

The mind thinks involuntarily just like a heart beats so you’re in good company with the rest of humanity.

The good news here is that there are plenty of ways to use thoughts as a focus object for meditation which means that you can access all the benefits of meditation even if you are someone with a busy mind. No need to try and stop your thoughts.

Busy minds welcome.

I tried meditating once. I hated it. Why should I try again?

There are lots of different approaches to meditation out there. In an age of information overload, where mindfulness has become a buzzword, many people have dipped into it only to walk away, puzzled. This conundrum is amplified by oversimplified interpretations and one-size-fits-all solutions that pervade our culture. Such approaches can be confusing and also don’t offer a comprehensive understanding of the transformative potential of Mindfulness.

By contrast the Unified Mindfulness System is research based. It is a clear, straightforward approach that distills the essence of contemplative practices from around the globe. This has produced a range techniques and strategies (40 standard techniques) which means there’s  a good chance you’ll find one that speaks to your interests and supports your goals.

How am I supposed to meditate when I have no time?

We hear this a lot.

To really start getting the most out of your meditation practice all it takes is 10 minutes a day. You don’t have 10 minutes? Maybe you’ll feel differently once you know that those 10 minutes can be done even while driving (with the right technique) or walking, working out and more. We can show you how to bring mindfulness into any part of your day. That might look like waiting in a queue, sitting in a meeting, having a conversation, brushing your teeth, preparing for a difficult discussion or having a meal. The list is actually endless. These kinds of moments all add up when it comes to developing your skills, accessing the benefits and your being a more mindful you.

 

I don't want to be too 'chill' because I have a lot to do. Won't meditation take away my competitive 'edge'?

One of the greatest misconceptions out there is that meditation is only about becoming calm. The transformative potential of mindfulness offers a meditator SO much more that just calmness (more about that elsewhere). Mindfulness practice involves 3 attentional skills. These skills work together and naturally develop both calmness and alertness. Instead of relying on a certain level of stress to fuel your ‘edge’ you have that combination of calm and a clarity that we feel when we wake refreshed after a really restful sleep. You’re much less exhausted because you use mindfulness to manage stress instead of fight it. So you have more energy, not less. Your heightened calm allows you to remain unruffled under pressure and the alertness, clarity and attention to detail helps you make better decisions. That’s an edge.

 

I can't Meditate because I'm too (insert issue here). I'm right, right?

Excuse the directness but…no.

Sometimes people believe they can’t Meditate if they are:

  • Stressed
  • Exhausted
  • Hungry
  • Reactive
  • In pain
  • In a hurry
  • Lost in thought

Whatever your reason you can still effectively Meditate. You can even do it using the very thing you consider an obstacle. When we Meditate we are focused on our Sensory Experience. All these ‘obstacles’ are experienced via our Sensory Experience. Once you know how you can use your obstacle to Meditate which will help you manage the obstacle itself. Lemon to Lemonade!

I am interested in improving my Performance Skills. Can Mindfulness help?

Yes ABSOLUTELY.

That’s the short answer. The long answer would be to try and summarise the various ways you could use Mindfulness Meditation to improve your Performance Skills (in any field). A very general and very short list might include:

  • Improved Concentration Power will support the quality of your work at every stage
  • As an attention skill focusing on detail and discernment, Sensory Clarity is developing the kind of attention to small details that is required for excellent work.
  • Techniques and strategies to manage stress and anxiety
  • Techniques to nurture positivity and balance the often biased emphasis on negativity that can cripple creativity, self expression and our best work
  • Techniques to enable you to rest and recharge even when you’re busy in practice, rehearsal and performance
  • Mindfulness increases the fulfillment you experience from your successes
  • Mindfulness can be used to establish positive habits and objective behaviour changes that you may wish to be a part of your growth as a performer
  • Mindfulness can be a powerful pathway to self knowledge and insight. As a performer these kinds of insights can be an invaluable tool for growth.