Offerings
Learn how to incorporate the mindful concussion approach into your daily life. Develop a wide-range of concrete practices you can call on to cultivate calm clarity in the middle of the concussion storm.
FREE Bi-Monthly Circle-Ups for Survivors
I am pleased to offer a chance for us to gather in community to practice mindfulness together.
Each hour-long zoom will include a guided meditation, tips and tricks for building your very own Mindful Concussion program, time for Q and A, and a chance to connect with fellow survivors. It’s hard to have a brain injury, but it’s easier when we do it together!
It’s OK if you don’t feel great that day. Come anyway. You can turn your camera off. You can lie down. You are welcome however you show up.
There are other venues for folks with a brain injury to share stories of challenges and problems, but this special hour is set aside to focus on practicing mindful solutions.
Up-coming Circle-Ups
Hit the Register button to email Jessie with the subject line ‘Circle-Ups’ to sign up to get notified with the zoom link. Come to one, come to all!
Mindfulness in nature
Sunday, September 13, 10-11 Pacific
Mindful eating and tea sipping
Sunday, November 8, 11-12 Pacific
Mindful Self-compassion
Friday, January 15, 10-11 Pacific
Mindful movement
Sunday, March 28, 4-5 Pacific
Breathwork
Saturday, May 8, 11-12 Pacific
Free Webinar for Brain Injury Professionals
Friday, April 25, 2025, 10-11, PST (recording will be sent to all who register)
Learn the core tenets of the Mindful Concussion approach and the importance of giving your patients and clients with a brain injury a mindfulness prescription with a warning label.
Hit the register button and you can send me an email letting me know you would like to attend. I will send out the Zoom link closer to the time.
Mindful Concussion Care Course
This 8-week 22-hour course is a beautiful opportunity to gather in community and deeply integrate the mindful concussion approach into daily life. It combines mindful concussion care, stress reduction, mindfulness in nature, mindful eating, slow yoga, self-compassion, as well as gratitude and joy practices to cultivate calm clarity. It is offered in person or on Zoom
Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss bringing me on to the run this course (or a shorter version of it) for your clients/students/community, or if you are an individual you will be the first to know when I next run a version of the course for the general public.
Course Details
The Mindful Concussion 22-hour course offers eight 2-hour sessions, plus a 6-hour Day of Silence. The weekly core practices (which become the homework) are in brackets:
- Introduction: Get to know each other and the plan for the course (mindful eating)
- Stress Reaction Cycle: Why do survivors get so stressed? (mindfulness in nature)
- Stress Response Cycle: How to Be Responsive to Stress (mindful self-compassion)
- Cultivating Calm in the Present Moment (long, slow, deep breaths)
- Cultivating Clarity in the Present Moment (joy and gratitude)
- Getting Comfortable with Our Symptoms (mindful movement)
Day of Silence on a weekend day (Reviewing all the practices)
- Conclusions: Wrapping it All Up (Building Your Own Mindful Concussion Tool Kit)
Each class offers: reflections on home practice, a new concept, trauma-sensitive guided practices, ‘inquiry’ with me to go more deeply into practice, small groups/break-out rooms to learn from and with peers, and time to ask questions. Every step of the way students are in choice; they are encouraged to listen to the messages their body is sending about which practices are most supportive, and which ones need to be avoided or further modified.
Payment by Sliding Scale
To make things fair, payment for Mindful Concussion services have three options.
Actual price
Supported price (only for those who truly cannot afford the Actual Price ie the unemployed)
Supporter price (for those who can afford to support those who cannot afford the Actual Price – thank you so much!!!)
Decide which category fits you based on your actual ability to invest in mindfulness education. A retired person with no mortgage may pay more than a working person with two kids in care.
In deciding what to pay, please remember that I have a brain injury and I cannot work full-time. I offer these services with love, but I still need to pay the bills, including many business costs!
Prices are below industry standard because I know that survivors often struggle financially….Individual offerings provide details.
One-on-one Mindful Concussion Support
Payment by sliding scale
- Actual price: $40
- Supported price: $30 (for those who cannot afford the actual price)
- Supporter price: $60 (for those who can afford to support those who can’t afford the actual price)
Webinar for the Canadian Association Occupational Therapists
I was so honoured to have the opportunity to share my lessons learned with OTs from across Canada. They were the first to encourage me to take up mindfulness!
Occupational Therapists can purchase this one-hour webinar from CAOT “The Power and the Perils of Prescribing Mindfulness for Brain Injury Care” and receive credits for doing so. I will get a small fee in return – enough to buy a cookie that I can mindfully savour at least!
Description:
Mindfulness is a powerful tool to help survivors learn to self-regulate their nervous system arousal. Since traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors are so easily dysregulated, being asked to pay intimate, prolonged attention to their bodies/symptoms can be overwhelming. Without modifications, survivors may give up on mindfulness, since many TBI survivors are also trauma survivors, in worst case scenarios it can lead to re-traumatization.
This webinar will explore the efficacy of mindfulness for TBI survivors. Relatively easy to teach/learn modifications will be shared in order to leave survivors with a sense of agency and an understanding that fear of (and reaction to) symptoms is often worse than the symptoms themselves.
After taking part in this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the efficacy of prescribing mindfulness for traumatic brain injury (TBI) care.
- Understand the importance of modifying mindfulness for TBI care.
- Offer clients concrete tips to help them take advantage of the power of mindfulness without falling prey to the perils of mindfulness for TBI care and to, as one student put it, to ‘no longer be a slave to my symptoms.’
