Going Beyond What You Believe to Be True | Individual Sessions
Deepen intimate experience of your own own mind and body processes. Enrich personal and professional skills by developing strength in observing processes, disidentifying with content, and intervening in unfolding processes at increasingly subtle levels. For continuing educaton, understand the importance and relevance of these experiences and processes from the perspective of Buddhist Psychology.

First Steps is the first in a series of courses and is foundational to those which follow. In this first of four segments, Going Beyond - First Steps , develop the preliminary skills necessary for recognizing and articulating phenomenological experiences as they arise in the mind body process during life experience and in therapeutic settings. The entire series addresses the objectives of the six and eight week Insight and Mindfulness courses but in short more intense sessions developing capacities at more discrete levels.

Going Beyond - First Steps

Date Level Credits Method Instructor Cost Alternatives

By arrangement - online or in person Introductory and Intermediate 5 hours - four instructional media sessions including teacher contact, written instructions, guided meditations, and homework (teacher sessions after each media session or half way and at end respectively) Individual Sessions (in person, by telephone, online) Insight Meditation Teacher, Mary Rees, MS $175 (a discounted rate to give everyone the chance to become independent in the basics) - plus cost of CD. Information and ordering here... Segments of the Insight and Mindfulness course like Going Beyond are available in group and individual sessions and in several formats in person, online, or via Skype: with practice books, in digital formats as an email course, and as a computer based meditation course on CD-ROM. To take this first course and work with these first level objectives - buy the Going Beyond CD. You can register for the course (for credit) from a link on the CD.

First level Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to articulate phenomenological experiences as they arise in their own mind/body process - preliminary skills necessary for awareness and work with qualities of mind by
• Finding breath and body
• Becoming familiar experientially with spacious qualities of mind
• Establishing the practice of concentration and self-kindness
• Finding balance and flexibility of mind in order to foster mindfulness within in private and in clinical settings
• Recognize, understand, and articulate the basis for the work in Buddhist Psychology.

Further levels

If you would like to go further, the entire series is available in individual session. These can be in person or by telephone or Skype. Apply for individual work here.

This series combined with a dedicated mindfulness and insight practice can serve in as an apprenticeship in learning how to offer meditation instructions to clients.