MIND-BODY SKILLS GROUP

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NEW upcoming Resilience and Empowerment~through Mind-Body Skills~  8 week educational group in-person starting Jan 5. Read below or click here for more information.

 

What is a Mind-Body Skills Group?

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Mind-Body Skills Groups were developed by The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC. The Groups offer a powerful and effective combination of research-based healing therapies to build resilience and self-care. This group helps participants manage stress, life changes, or health conditions in an intimate and supportive group setting.  

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What skills are taught? 

Breath work, Movement/Yoga, Relaxation, Imagery, Self-awareness, Meditation, Writing/Drawing, Autogenic Training, Emotional Awareness, Healthy Eating , Appreciating Family History

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Who can benefit? 

Anyone interested in making changes in their lives, whether it's a desire is to decrease stress, work with trauma,  increase coping, decrease pain, enhance immune function, manage anxiety/ depression, increase resilience, self-trust, creativity. 

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ALL ARE WELCOME.

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​A new in person group "Resilience and Empowerment~through Mind-Body Skills" starts Thursdays Jan. 15-Mar. 5, 2026

6-8 PM, Central Time.  

Location: Lynnhurst Congregational UCC 4501 Colfax Ave S Minneapolis MN 55419   Fireside Room

Fee:  $250 for 8 weeks, register by Dec. 21 to receive a $20 discount. Limited partial scholarships are available.

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To register:  ​Call Julie, email or click here to submit your interest in registering. You will be contacted prior to the group to confirm your enrollment and to answer any questions. 

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Contact: Julie Kilpatrick jkilpatrick221@gmail.com 651-285-4251

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​Note: These groups are educational, wellness focused, and not formal mental/physical health care. You will not be given any health care advice. Rather, you will be supported in arriving at your own answers and solutions to your lived experience. The group is non-analytical, non-diagnostic, non-pathologizing, and does not involve advice-giving. The group does involve sharing about yourself and your experiences. The group process and the skills engage with the depth of who you are and how you experience life and the world around you. The skills can and do bring up emotions. Emotions are natural and we each have different comfort levels with them and the bodily sensations that accompany them. All sharing is unforced/self-selected. If you are in need of formal health care or are unsure if the group is right for your needs, please reach out, and/or process the idea with your professional caregivers.

 

​Click this 5 min video that explains a Mind-Body Skills Group. 

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“A supportive group is the medium where self-care flourishes.”

James Gordon MD

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Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing is a companion book to this group. An inviting, narrative that allows readers to use Dr. Gordon’s step-by step evidence-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage that trauma causes and to restore their hope and heal themselves. 

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This group is based on the principles of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. 

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MIND-BODY WALK OR PADDLE

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I LOVE the St. Croix river!!!!

 

I have found solace, fun, joy, wonder and refreshment in, on and around the St. Croix. I want to give back and facilitate offerings for others to experience some of gifts the St. Croix river has given to me.

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A mind-body walk or paddle includes an individualized, guided mindful walk or paddle on or near the St. Croix River. Mind-body skills are taught as an option to support participates in realizing their innate resilience and self care to manage stress, life changes or health conditions in an intimate outdoor setting.

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