Mindfulness for Mental Health: Anxiety, Depression, and Stress Reduction

Mindfulness has many benefits for your mental health and scientific research supports the use of mindfulness techniques for the management of anxiety, depression, and stress reduction. Within the wide spectrum of coping skills, tools, support systems available for mental health, mindfulness plays a large role.

This workshop is for individuals who are interested in learning about those benefits and want to to start and/or grow a practice of mindfulness. This workshop is experiential and Olivia will demonstrate several different types of mindfulness practices you can implement into your daily life.

This workshop will provide attendees with the science-backed research behind mindfulness and why it works, several practices they can try out, and tips for starting and/or growing an individual mindfulness practice. A list of resources will also be available for attendees to take with them.

About your facilitator: Olivia Beisler is a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. While completing her Master’s degree in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching at the U of MN, Olivia took courses that focused on different areas of integrative and alternative health including mindfulness, functional nutrition, physical activity, lifestyle medicine, mind-body transformation, and end of life transition/care.

Olivia's coaching focuses on working one on one or in small groups, partnering with clients instead of prescribing or educating, holistic health, mind/body connection, and fostering self-compassion and self-awareness. She loves combining aspects of allopathic and integrative medicine, working on personal growth, and bringing creativity and the arts into her coaching sessions. She intentionally works to create a safe space for vulnerability and to explore the liminal spaces and intersections of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.