Path of Freedom (PoF) Fall19

Please see Notes section below for class time/location.

The Path of Freedom (PoF) is a 10-week course that includes training in mindfulness meditation, principles of emotional intelligence, communication skills, conflict resolution, and resilience building skills. These are skills and qualities that can contribute to more effective relationships, leadership, and collaboration, regardless of our living circumstances.

In this training, participants will engage in an innovative and unique learning opportunity, where two PoF classes are offered in parallel: 1) One class at a correctional facility here in Wisconsin (a male, maximum security prison), and 2) Another class for the Madison community (through UW Health Mindfulness Program). The intention is to have both groups enrich each other as they go through the curriculum, and to realize that - underneath it all - we are all in the same boat in this messy business of being human. Participants will receive the Path of Freedom manual.

After registering and making payment online, please print out, complete and submit attached questionnaire by Wed, September 25, 2019.

Instructor: Carmen Alonso, PhD is a licensed psychologist who has been teaching mindfulness meditation classes in the Madison area for 15 years. She has taught mindfulness-based interventions to patients with clinical depression and anxiety, veterans with and without PTSD, Spanish-speaking populations, and medical residents and students. Currently, her primary focus is teaching mindfulness and other contemplative practices to incarcerated men and women in several prisons across Wisconsin. Carmen has practiced the martial art of Tae Kwon Do for 26 years (20 of those years as head instructor of the Choi Tae Kwon Do School at UW Madison).