Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Now One-on-One!

This program offers a powerful, integrative approach that can help you tap into and mobilize your innate inner resources for healing and well-being through mindfulness meditation.

Since 2003 Denise Dempsey has guided thousands of students, in groups and one-on-one, to discover greater wholeness and improve their quality of life with mindfulness.

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"Denise Dempsey helps people find their own way rather than trying to make the class one-size-fits-all."

— MBSR Alumni

What is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)?

From where did the program originate?

This is the 8-Week MBSR curriculum that was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMASS Medical Center in 1979 and was covered in the Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary Healing and the Mind: Healing from Within. The book Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness describes the program, it’s practices and philosophy, in great detail.

What kinds of things will I learn?

MBSR is an immersion in mindfulness that is explored both through meditation (learning sitting meditation, the body scan, walking meditation and loving kindness meditation). You'll also learn how you can carry what you're cultivating in these meditation practices into your daily life.

Is it just for stress?

In MBSR, the term stress broadly encompasses everything from the ways we can find ourselves out of balance in some way, to suffering from the impact of chronic stress or the symptoms of chronic illness or anxiety.

What kinds of skills can I gain?

Through MBSR, you can get better at being able to live all your moments, and not just as though waiting for some better moment to come along. You’ll know more about how to bring mindfulness to how you eat, sleep, care for your health, respond to world stress, communicate, manage habitual patterns - and any number of other areas of life that matter most to you.

What’s included?

One on One: We’ll meet for 80 minutes weekly, for 8 weeks. You’ll be provided with a workbook that includes the weekly activity assignments and the MBSR guided meditation recordings to stream or download.

Groups: We’ll meet for 2 1/2 hours weekly, for 8 weeks. You’ll be provided with a workbook that includes the weekly activity assignments and the MBSR guided meditation recordings to stream or download. (Schedule TBA)

What happens after my program ends?

When you finish, you'll have the opportunity to join the online MBSR alumni group that has been meeting since 2007. If you’re interested in taking it further, you may also continue with mindfulness coaching to refresh and adapt your practice as you go along.

“Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction taught by Denise Dempsey has helped me get my life back after years of being sidelined by chronic pain. The level of care brought to these courses is phenomenal.”

—MBSR Alumni

Tuition

An Investment in Your Well-being

Join our personalized One-on-One MBSR Online program at $110 per session, totaling $880 for the entire eight-week journey. This inclusive fee covers comprehensive instruction, abundant support resources, and personalized guidance tailored to you. As an added benefit, upon completion, you'll have the opportunity to engage in our weekly alumni meditation group.

Financial Flexibility and Support

Your well-being matters. If financial considerations pose a challenge, let's discuss it during your consultation call. Your path to mindfulness matters, and together we can find a way.

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“Denise is an excellent example of living mindfully. Her lovely and thoughtful poems add depth to the overall concept and experience. I could go on and on about how much her knowledge and skillset adds.”

—MBSR Alumni

Reduce symptoms of chronic illness impacted by stress

When we experience chronic stress, sometimes our best go-to strategies don’t work anymore. When we’re stressed and overwhelmed, we can benefit from new methods of relief. If you experience any of these symptoms, you may be suffering from chronic stress.

Frequent infections or illnesses

Nervousness

Irritability

Fatigue

Low self-esteem

Headaches

Difficulty concentrating

Rapid or disorganized thoughts

Difficulty sleeping

Chronic pain impacted by stress

Digestive problems

Changes in appetite

Feeling helpless

A sense of loss of control

Through my 8-week MBSR programs, I want to help you stress less, sleep deeper, and live better. You’ll learn MBSR in real-time, which can’t be compared to meditating with an app. Mindfulness meditation can help you quiet the noise of stress and improve your work and life.

“Denise is a wonderful instructor! She is supportive and motivating. I really enjoy her teaching style, which lets us generate our own insights and points us in the right direction but gives us the freedom to have a unique and personal experience.”