Presentation

The program focuses on the intrapersonal or internal experience. This course focuses on a specific area, but it is also recommended to take the Mindfulness course: Balance in Relationships, as they complement and reinforce each other’s effectiveness.

Objectives

Gain basic knowledge - theoretical and practical - about meditation and introspective techniques to cultivate mental calm and serenity and develop skills such as attention, concentration and mental clarity. Facilitate a daily personal practice that allows you to continue cultivating and maintaining these qualities.

Recipients

This training program is aimed at professionals who are dedicated to helping or caring for other people (psychologists, teachers, doctors, speech therapists, nurses, physiotherapists, social educators…).
It can also be aimed at people interested in their personal growth or cultivating balance and mental calm, and you do not need to have a specific degree to access it.

• Calm internal balance: Meditation and introspective techniques
  • Gain basic knowledge - theoretical and practical - about meditation and introspective techniques to cultivate mental calm and serenity and develop skills such as attention, concentration and mental clarity.
  • Learn how to apply these methods, mainly using the method of mindfulness and other complementary techniques.
  • Facilitate a daily personal practice that allows you to continue cultivating and maintaining these qualities.
• Why meditate
  • What can meditation bring us? Main objectives.
  • Mental, emotional and physical benefits of meditation.
• What is meditation
  • Fundamentals and essential technique.
  • Misconceptions about meditation.
• Basic types of meditation
  • Full attention and concentration for mental calm, penetrating clarity and the use of creative imagination.
• The practice
  • Posture, attitude, cognitive and emotional factors involved.
  • Practical application. Adequate conditions, difficulties and how to solve them.
  • Progression in practice.
• Practice basic techniques
  • Learning basic techniques and their practice.
  • The meditation session
  • Application in everyday life.
• Individual practice of the participants
  • Regular and daily practice of the participants
  • Monitoring of individual practice

Coordination

Dra. Núria Farriols. Doctor in Psychology, clinical psychologist at the Hospital de Mataró and full professor at the FPCEE Blanquerna. Member of the Communication and Health Research Group (URL). He has 8 years of experience in meditation practice and training.

Teaching staff

Prof. Ferran Aliaga. Clinical psychologist at the mental health center as well as the Short Stay Hospitalization Unit at Mataró Hospital. He has 8 years of experience in meditation practice and training.

Dra. Núria Farriols. Doctor in Psychology, clinical psychologist at the Hospital de Mataró and full professor at the FPCEE Blanquerna. Member of the Communication and Health Research Group (URL). He has 8 years of experience in meditation practice and training.

Prof. Basili Llorca. Trained in Buddhist philosophy and meditation in centers in India, Nepal and France, he is President and Founder of the Universal Education Association and the Dharmadhatu Association. Master in Methods for Personal Growth.
He has been teaching meditation for over 25 years.

Prof. Teresa Pretel. Graduate in Psychology, General Health Psychologist and member of the Communication and Health Research Group. (URL) Master in Narrative Therapy. Individual and group psychotherapy in the private sector and in research. He has 5 years of experience in meditation practice and training.