Out-of-your-mindfulness is an approach that shares a lot of important features with and is built on equal foundational aspects as the thought-through, evidence-based and established method Mindfulness. Yet it evokes and requires a completely different attitude.
Similar to mindfulness the goals are to establish a non-judgmental and open attitude, to be able to escape from the bustle in the head, break patterns and reduce stress. It addresses topics such as dealing with obstacles, living in the here and now, letting go, trust and confidence and deals with thoughts and ways to communicate. Where mindfulness accounts for patience, thoughtfulness, caution, modesty, stillness and peacefulness, however, OUT-of-your-MINDFULNESS is playful, confronting, takes you outside your comfort zone, awakens your creativity, fantasies and childhood memories, prevents seriousness and invites ridiculousness.
Out-of-your-mindfulness explores playfulness on many different levels and seeks to bring the focus out of the mind and into the body. Not by emptying the mind, but by filling the body with impulses, tasks and inspiration. It focuses on the body here and now, which is shaped by the memories stored inside our physical body as well as by our desires, dreams, fears and fantasies of the future. Through playful exercises, assessments and games we REmind – or rather RE-embody – the body to react spontaneously, instinctively, impulsively, honest and transparent. By acting and reacting to the immediate presence, unconscious patterns and habits are brought into the light, experienced and explored.
We will turn the world upside down and awaken the brash and curious child inside us. We will celebrate instinctive impulses, by cultivating the awareness of their existence and how we tend to suppress them due to social rules, norms and concepts. These practices of out-of-your-mindfulness are deeply inspiring and empowering and will fill you with energy and self-confidence.
