West Toronto Counselling Network - West Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington,

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It is easy to get caught up into thinking about the way we want things to be, the way things should be, and what's wrong with the way they are.

Mindfulness helps us to see things without our attachment to outcomes and with practice, mindfulness gives us the ability to respond and not to just react to situations and circumstances in our life.

The practice of mindfulness is widely used to alleviate stress, pain, weight problems, and emotional suffering such as depression, anxiety, anger and grief.

You can start the practice of mindfulness now. Margotte Kaczanowska & Eva Witkowska have designed a six week program, "Mindfulness Matters". The current session is now closed to new participants. However, the program will be available again with sessions beginning November 7, 2011 and January 16, 2012. New sessions begin every two months. The fee for six 120 minute sessions and materials is $245.00 and the fee may be covered by extended health benefits.

To register call 416-769-6339 or email: connect@margottepsychotherapy.com

For more information click this link: mindfulness matters

	William Cooke and Margotte Kaczanowska delivered a full day workshop as a preconference event for the Bereavement Ontario Network's 20th Annual Conference held at Geneva Park this past October. The topic, Stories Well Beyond the Grave: Narrative Therapy and Grief Work was well received by participants.
	Joan Marsman participated in the Sex Therapy Training Program which was held at the Guelph Sexuality Conference this past June. The program was a five day course that provided specialized training in sex counselling and therapy and was designed to provide practitioners and students with the information and skills to assess and counsel the sexual concerns of individuals and couples. The event was a great success and the conference will again be presented in June of 2011.
	William Cooke presented a workshop at the 19th annual Bereavement Ontario Network held at Geneva Park in October. The title was, " Ongoing Relationships with the Deceased: Narrative Therapy's Contribution to Grief Counselling . " The presentation was built around scenes from, "Grace is Gone," a 2007 film staring John Cusack as a bereft military father who must knit together a new identity as both father and mother after his wife is killed in action in Iraq. William explored how families seek to maintain ongoing relationships with their deceased loved ones while stepping out of dominant ideas of the "finality of death".
	For more information on this workshop and other workshop possibilities, visit William at www.williamcooke.ca

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