MCM College: “Inner Peace in Adversity” Mindfulness Awareness Week
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise across the globe, stress and anxiety around the epidemic have risen right alongside them. To help support students through the current global crisis, the Moon Chun Memorial College called upon other colleges to co-organize “Inner Peace in Adversity” Mindfulness Awareness Week, which was held between 30th March and 3rd April, 2020, every evening from 9-10 pm, participating colleges included CKY College, SP College, CKL College, LCW College and SEA College The aim of this campaign is to give the participants an insight of what mindfulness is, how they can adapt it to their lives, and how to learn those techniques to improve their own mental well-being. With the support of Macau Mindfulness Association, two experienced mindfulness teachers have conducted five sessions of online workshops, topics included living in the present, implementation of mindfulness in everyday life, self-compassion techniques, dealing with emotional storm and helplessness in life etc.. In the workshops, the mindfulness teachers interacted with the participants through inspirational stories, personal experience sharing and guided meditation practices, allowing them to experience inner peace in the moment. In the last session of the workshops, the mindfulness teacher, Vincy Che concluded, “To cultivate inner peace, it requires individuals to have the intention to keep practicing mindfulness, pay attention to what is in the present and have an attitude of being kind to ourselves. |