Mindfulness Workshops & Events
Workshops &
Author Talks
Sara offers workshops, author talks and training, both online and in-person
Workshops and presentations can be provided for children, youth, parents, parent councils, families, educators, school classrooms, community groups, clinicians, organizations and conferences. Workshops are both interactive and informative, including theory and information about mindfulness and neuroscience – grounded in experiential practice. They can be designed to address the interests and needs of your specific group. I offer mindful-parenting and mindfulness workshops for children at TCDSB & TDSB schools throughout the GTA. I have been a key-note speaker at various event, with topics including nervous system regulation, mindful self-compassion and emotion coaching for parents.
I also provide interactive for author speaks for classrooms & schools. Workshops for children (and adults too) are experiential and fun. They can include Mindfulness practices, songs, drumming and percussion, stories, and expressive arts. Workshops for families include mindfulness and attunement activities that can deepen the relationship between parents and children.
Previous Speaking Engagements
- Settling Our Nervous System in Unsettling Times: Practical Strategies to Calm your Nerves, Respond to Stress & Build Resilience
- Taking Care of Ourselves while Taking Care of Others: Mindful self-compassion workshop for social workers and health care providers
- Mindful Parents, Resilient Children
- Breathe In & Play: Sharing Mindfulness and Self-compassion with Children & Adolescents (2-day workshop at Laurier University)
- Communication for Partners: Managing Conflict & Staying Connected
- When ‘Calm Down’ Doesn’t Work: Introduction to Emotion Coaching
- Stress Relief in your Back Pocket
- Introducing Mindfulness to Children: One Playful Breath at a Time
- How to Hug Your Tears: Mindfulness & Self-compassion for Children
- Mindful Parenting: Developing Resilience & Mindfulness in Ourselves and our Children (Workshops for parents in elementary schools)
- Treating Ourselves as we would Treat a Good Friend: An Intro to Mindful Self-
Compassion for (post secondary) Students - Becoming our own Best Friend: Worries, Warts & All (Introducing mindfulness & self-compassion to children and adolescents)
- Mindful Parenting: Nurturing Connection: One Breath at a Time
Upcoming Events
We're busy planning new events, to keep up to date on the latest, check back frequently.
Mindful Self-compassion Training by Sara Marlowe
Compassion for Couples
Date: January 12 - March 9, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, EST (10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST)
Location: online
Cost:
Facilitators: Sara Marlowe MSW, RSW, & Megan Prager, MA
As important as our relationships are, they are not always easy! Compassion for Couples (CfC) is a program designed to help us meet ourselves and our partner with greater awareness and compassion. CfC builds on the skills developed in the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program and moves deeper into compassion between partners. Utilizing the skills of mindfulness and compassion, this program teaches how to build a strong and healthy foundation for relationships, and provides skills to help navigate the difficulties that arise within us and between us. While prior experience with MSC is helpful, it is not required.
Partners attend together and will learn to:
- Be more present with each other
- Identify shared values
- Build a base of warmth, security and connection.
- Communicate with kindness and compassion
- Comfort yourself and your partner
- Skillfully relate to your partner in times of difficulty
- Gain a greater understanding of yourself, your partner, and shared relational patterns
We recommend that if your schedule will not allow you to attend the first session, or prevents from attending any two sessions of the course, that you consider waiting until the next offering of the program.
Compassion for Couples
Date: January 12 - March 9, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm, EST (10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST) pm PST)
Location: Online
Cost: $875 per couple, $775.00 if you register before Dec. 31, 2024 (Promo Code: CfCEarlyBird)
Facilitators: Sara Marlowe MSW, RSW, & Megan Prager, MA
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/compassion-for-couples-cfc-8-week-program-tickets-945200619497
As important as our relationships are, they are not always easy! Compassion for Couples (CfC) is a program designed to help us meet ourselves and our partner with greater awareness and compassion. CfC builds on the skills developed in the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program and moves deeper into compassion between partners. Utilizing the skills of mindfulness and compassion, this program teaches how to build a strong and healthy foundation for relationships, and provides skills to help navigate the difficulties that arise within us and between us. While prior experience with MSC is helpful, it is not required.
Even if you and your partner already practice mindfulness and compassion, you might have noticed that it's not always easy to do that in the context of your relationship. Perhaps you are in committed relationship in which you are experiencing some challenges; and you want to feel more connected, secure and at ease with each other.
Or, you're in a committed relationship that's already well connected, and you want to safeguard and strengthen your connection so that it lasts well into the future. Compassion for Couples is a wonderful opportunity for you and your partner to build a strong and healthy foundation for your relationship and develop the skills to help navigate the difficulties that arise within us and between us. CfC is a psycho-educational program, and is not a substation for couple therapy when indicated. Each couple with have a brief consult to assess suitability for the course.
Partners attend together and will learn to:
- Be more present with each other
- Identify shared values
- Build a base of warmth, security and connection.
- Communicate with kindness and compassion
- Comfort yourself and your partner
- Skillfully relate to your partner in times of difficulty
- Gain a greater understanding of yourself, your partner, and shared relational patterns
We recommend that if your schedule will not allow you to attend the first session, or prevents from attending any two sessions of the course, that you consider waiting until the next offering of the program.
Compassion for Couples Presentation for Mindfulness Toronto
Date: Thursday, November 21,2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Online - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/compassion-for-couples-with-sara-marlowe-msw-rsw-tickets-1088774125719?aff=oddtdtcreator
In the session, Sara will share a brief overview of the exciting new compassion for couples program. Specifically, Sara will discuss how intentionally bringing compassion into intimate partner relationships can help create a sense of safety and security, necessary conditions for relationships to thrive.
She will also lead us in a compassion practice and explore how partners can create the conditions to engage in more fruitful conversations, identify opportunities for connection, and break continuing cycles of conflict.
Breathe In and Play: Mindfulness Practice with Children and Adolescents
Date: December 3 & 4, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (each day)
Location: Laurier Continuing Education
Today’s fast-paced, ultra-stimulating, achievement-driven world is placing unprecedented stress and pressure on children, teens and families. Even after coming out of pandemic isolation, feelings of loneliness abound in young people. Fears around racial injustice, climate crisis and economic instability are but a few of the realities families face daily. Add to the mix, the fact that we live in an emotion-avoidant society, so many of us bereft of opportunities to explore and process our emotions. How can young people and families thrive, let alone survive, when faced with so much?
Mindfulness and self-compassion practice provide one way to not only navigate this challenging terrain but build resilience as well.
Research shows that mindfulness practice with children and adolescents can reduce stress, improve emotion regulation, strengthen interpersonal relationships, foster academic learning, reduce anxiety, increase executive function, and promote overall well-being. With all these known benefits, it is understandable why adults would want children and teens to practice mindfulness…but young people often don’t feel the same way. By sharing mindfulness in fun, creative and developmentally appropriate ways, seeds of mindfulness and compassion can be planted with young people - seeds that they can then cultivate throughout their lifetime.
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