Now Offering: Finding Peace in a Frantic World – Stress Reduction with Christopher Menard

Finding Peace in a Frantic World (FPFW)

Mindfulness & Stress Reduction

The Finding Peace in a Frantic World (FPFW) group is an 8-week program designed to teach stress reduction through developing mindfulness skills, practicing the skills at home between group sessions, and completing a weekly reading to support learning. FPFW weekly sessions are only an hour and daily home practice training with audios is suggested at 8 – 24 minutes/day.

Weekly Course Themes

• Week 1: Waking up to your life – Recognizing the default "autopilot" mode that runs daily habits and routines. 

• Week 2: Keeping the body in mind – Shifting from a constant "doing" mode into an accepting "being" mode through physical awareness. 

• Week 3: Mindfulness in daily life (Gathering the scattered mind) – Weaving simple mindful moments and anchors into routine daily tasks. 

• Week 4: Relating differently to thoughts and worries – Seeing thoughts as mental events or creations rather than absolute facts.

• Week 5: Turning to difficulties (From reacting to responding) – Facing and accepting challenges and discomfort rather than avoiding them. 

• Week 6: Practicing kindness / Your wild and precious life – Cultivating compassion for yourself and others.

• Week 7: Exploring what nourishes you / Developing balance – Making conscious choices about activities that restore energy and balance. 

• Week 8: Your wild and precious life (Sustaining the journey) – Integrating mindfulness habits beyond the formal course structure

Class meets for 1-hour/week for 8-weeks

Cost: $240

Location: Online or In-Person

Required reading: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Williams and Penman     

Amazon link: https://a.co/d/05eEecaz

Read chapters 1 – 4 to prepare for the class. 

See link to access FPFW audios: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hpx0g9zRo_v3W4KCvAMtfA5dtq1VSVVo?usp=sharing

To express interest, ask questions, and join the wait-list for the next FPFW group, email DrMenard@DrMenard.org and put FPFW in the subject line of the email. 

You can also contact Dr. Menard via his work phone at 615-626-3878. 

Dr. Menard received his doctorate from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and completed his internship at the University of Illinois Psychological Services Center in Champaign, IL.  Before moving to Nashville in the summer of 2023, he provided clinical services in Urbana, Illinois and trained doctoral students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention.