Mindfulness Practice (Evening)

Mindfulness Practice
Mindfulness practice is a powerful antidote to stress, anxiety, panic, pain, depression, and obsessive thinking. Mindfulness is the cultivation of skills that will reduce stress, develop greater focused attention and concentration, and increase our capacity to effectively manage life complexities. 
The practice of Mindfulness is a transferable skill which can be applied to reduce stress and burnout in sport, work, study, and relationships. The unique aspect of this course is that it provides a life skill that can be immediately integrated into your daily life. Because of the experiential nature of the course these skills are learned over the period of four weeks.

Growing evidence indicates that mindfulness practice can lead to positive life changes, including:
reduced stress and anxiety
improved concentration
reduced chronic physical pain
an improved immune system
the ability to deal with negative emotions
reduced insomnia
a greater sense of happiness and wellbeing
reduced addictive behaviours.
the ability to cope with difficult life events, such as 
change or bereavement
Target Audience: Adults
Course outcomes:
Achieve the ability to adopt mindfulness as an approach to everyday life.
Increased focus, attention and concentration
Identify and manage fear based emotions
Ability to evaluate personal stress levels and acquire a range of positive coping strategies
Achieve a solid understanding of how mindlessness impacts on daily life

Helen Williams

Hello there! I am the owner and Director of LifeWorks Dubai, running LifeWorks alongside my daughter, Carmen Benton, who is the Managing Director of the company.

I'm originally from New Zealand and now love my life in Dubai. I love the opportunities for travel we can explore by living in the hub of the world!

With around 40 years experience as a counsellor, specializing in personal and self development, spiritual direction, individual, couples and marriage counselling, I have acquired many distinctive skills for providing specialized help, including an empathetic and careful listening approach combined with deep intuitive and compassionate understanding.

My unique advantage is many years experience in the field of counselling and self development for individuals, couples, marriage and grief counselling and teaching meditation and mindfulness. 

Counselling, teaching, training, mentoring and caring for people has been my life's work. This enables me to be plausible, credible and trusted, while displaying the broad perspective which can only be gained through a great deal of training and experience.

My life's experiences have created a strong interest in relationships and human development, and in understanding the psychology of grief and loss. My own personal journey towards growth, change and self acceptance led me to studies in Transactional Analysis, Progressive Counselling and Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Living for some years in a meditation and retreat center, where I worked as a counsellor and a teacher of both Hatha Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness, has had a marked impact on my way of being and further fueled my desire for authentic living.

Throughout my adult life I have participated in and taught many groups involved in the personal search for authenticity, meaning, purpose and connection. Mindfulness as a way of living and my meditation practice are core teachings for me and enable me to be grounded and connected in my daily life. I am continuously renewing my commitment to growth through regular participation in supervision, research and learning.

I greatly enjoy my life working with people as a consultant, workshop trainer and facilitator, mindfulness and meditation teacher, parenting educator, mother, grandmother, writer, speaker, traveler, web site editor, and explorer of human nature! These labels sum up who I am today and also reflect some of my life's journey too. My skills constitute a life time's dedication to working compassionately with people from all walks of life, cultures, countries and abilities.

Frequent travel has become a large part of my life and I have been blessed to be able to live and work abroad as an expat in some amazing countries which has given me a broader understanding of the impact of culture and change for expatriate lifestyles. I particularly enjoy the focus of group work in expat communities where the diversity of cultural experiences and understandings can be shared.

My family of four, wonderful, now grown children are my greatest support on this journey through life. Loving and enjoying my grandchildren has become one of life's deepest blessings to me.

When I'm not at LifeWorks, I love to walk, swim, read, eat out, travel and be involved with music. I love all that Dubai has to offer and really enjoy exploring and discovering new places of interest within the UAE as well as further abroad!.