MINDFULNESS PLUS EMPOWER SESSIONS
Mondays 7.30PM – 8.30PM
Weekly Zoom Mindfulness Meditation Sessions with Mindfulness Experts
Mindfulness Plus Empower offers you a weekly guided meditation event facilitated by one of Mindfulness Works expert facilitators. There will be time for questions and answers and you will enjoy the support of meditating with others.
Empower Schedules and Bookings
Dates and times: All Empower sessions are held on Monday evenings, 7.30PM – 8.30PM.
Registration: Please register for each session you wish to attend
Accessing Zoom link: Instructions for accessing the Zoom link are emailed to you upon registration. Reminders are sent out to you from 24 hours before your class starts.
Questions and help: If you have any questions or require any help, please contact Karen Kopp on 0800 308 007 or complete the contact form on your membership page.
BOOK YOUR SPOTS NOW!
Monday 6th September — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
THE CONSCIOUS OBSERVER with Glenda Irwin
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Glenda Irwin exploring what it means to be the mindful witness or conscious observer and how this impacts on our ability to make mindful and wise decisions in life.
Monday 13th September — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
UNDERSTAND STRESS with Gavin Eichholz
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Gavin Eichholz exploring the nature of stress and how mindfulness is so effective at reducing the negative impacts of stress.
Monday 20th September — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
MINDFULNESS EMPOWER SESSION with Lucy Schwabe (MBSR qualified teacher)
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Lucy Schwabe
Monday 27th September — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
COMING BACK TO YOURSELF with John Fletcher
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with John Fletcher exploring how we can make the present moment our home.
Monday 4th October — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
THE CONSCIOUS OBSERVER with Glenda Irwin
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Glenda Irwin exploring what it means to be the mindful witness or conscious observer and how this impacts on our ability to make mindful and wise decisions in life.
Monday 11th October — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
THE POWER OF MINDFULNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE with Gavin Eichholz
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Gavin Eichholz exploring ways we can bring mindfulness into our daily life in a simple and practical way.
Monday 18th October — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
SEEING CLEARLY WITH MINDFULNESS with Lin, Ee Lin Ong (MBCT qualified teacher)
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with Lin Ong exploring
Monday 25th October — 7.30PM – 8.30PM
JUST STOP! FINDING STILLNESS with John Fletcher
60-minute mindfulness and meditation session with John Fletcher exploring our natural capacity for stillness and peace of mind.
Getting the Most From Your M+ Empower Session
✅ Log on 10 minutes before your session starts
It’s great if you can be relaxed and ready to enjoy your session as soon as it starts.
✅ Keep your camera on — remember you’re amongst friends
These sessions are best when we can see each other. Remember you are amongst friends.
✅ Ask questions
Make the most of these sessions and ask your expert mindfulness meditation expert teacher questions.
Frequently Asked Questions
DATE AND TIMES: All Empower sessions are held on Monday evenings, 7.30PM – 8.30PM.
HOW DO YOU REGISTER? Simply find the session or sessions you would like to attend below and register.
HOW DO YOU GET THE ZOOM LINK AND ARE THERE REMINDERS? Instructions for accessing the Zoom link are emailed to you upon registration. Reminders are sent out to you from 24 hours before your class starts.
ARE THE ZOOM SESSIONS RECORDED? The Zoom sessions are NOT recorded. This is to preserve the confidential environment.
HOW MANY SESSIONS CAN YOU BOOK FOR? You can book in for as many Zoom sessions as you like as part of your Mindfulness Plus membership.
QUESTIONS OR HELP: If you have any questions or require any help, please contact Karen Kopp on 0800 308 007 or karen@mindfulnessworks.co.nz
Meet Your M+ Empower Mindfulness Expert Teachers
Gavin Eichholz
Gavin is a mindfulness-based coach and psychotherapist with a Masters in counselling and psychotherapy.
He is also a Chartered Accountant who has worked in the financial services sector and accounting practices where he has held numerous roles at a manager and senior manager level. He has completed all the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examinations and has a Diploma of Financial Planning.
In the last 20 years, Gavin has embarked on a personal self-development journey that was sparked by an interest in meditation and mindfulness. He is passionate about mindfulness and meditation and has used them daily in his own life for an extended period of time.
Through his coaching business, Empower to Shine, Gavin does financial coaching for individuals allowing them to have a more positive relationship with money. He coaches people how to use mindfulness to effectively manage wealth creation and anxiety over money-related issues and decisions.
Glenda Irwin
Glenda is a senior facilitator for Mindfulness Works.
She began teaching mindfulness to children and parents by consultancy and alongside the Gifted Children’s Association in 2010. Training with teachers in USA, NZ, Australia and the UK, Glenda has since applied her extensive practice to mindfulness and relationships, eating, sleep and coaching models. She has a private consultancy: Red Letter Mindfulness & Positive Psychology offering coaching and therapeutic support for flourishing and optimal living. More on her extensive mentoring within corporate settings and individual sessions via Zoom and at her studio in Auckland can be found at https://www.facebook.com/RedLetterMindfulness.
Glenda is an ACT and CFT therapist and recently completed a Graduate Diploma Health Science (Psychology). Her combined trainings in acceptance, compassion and positive psychology support her strength-based approach to mindfulness consultancy.
Glenda observes the philosophical practice of mindfulness within Buddhist and Taoist traditions but considers herself a secular practitioner (not engaging in rituals or oaths). She has a love of learning and continues to apply her attention to further (Bachelor Hons Health Science) academic studies in 2022.
Ask Glenda what she feels is her greatest strength and she will tell you her resilience and luck in having a ‘glass half full nature.’ Glenda is a single parent to one son; she loves to dance and laugh out loud and loves her new hobby, kayaking.
John Fletcher
John Fletcher has 15 years experience working with mindfulness in a variety of settings.
John first experienced the effectiveness of mindfulness when he attended a Breathworks mindfulness-based pain management programme in Manchester (UK) for his chronic back pain. He went on to become accredited as a trainer in the Breathworks mindfulness programme in 2006.
John lives in Tauranga and is an Educator for the Pause, Breathe, Smile Programme — teaching mindfulness in primary and intermediate schools. He also provides bespoke mindfulness training for groups and individuals with particular focus on health and wellbeing, chronic pain, children and families.
John is an experienced Clinical Supervisor and works with a variety of organisations around the Bay of Plenty region. His previous work experience includes senior roles in NGOs in the Disability Sector, Community Development and Children’s Services Development in the UK and NZ.
He enjoys being in the wilderness, reading science fiction and practising Taoist Tai Chi — a moving meditation. John is an Instructor for the Taoist Tai Chi Society of NZ.
Lin, Ee Lin Ong – MBCT qualified teacher
Lin describes herself as a Kiwiporean who goes through the flux of life like most do. MSc in Psychology from Otago, she has worked as a psychologist and as a wildlife guide on a farm. Full-time, she is a long-term mindfulness practitioner and experiences mindfulness as an ongoing journey of discovery, adventure and service.
Her practice and training roots from the contemplative wisdom traditions, as well as the practical science-based traditions. She is a facilitator for Mindfulness Works, and trains new facilitators when they come on board. Lin specialises in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and its related programs. She is a Teaching Partner of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford, UK and teaches, trains and supervises facilitators internationally. She is familiar with teaching mindfulness from the introductory level to the more in-depth and across a range of context; community, schools, healthcare, workplaces. She appreciates nature, her mentors, family, friends and each one she is meeting on this journey.
Lucy Schwabe – MBSR qualified teacher
Lucy’s philosophy of mind-body work has evolved over 20 years of education and practice.
Beginning with a Bachelor of Health Science, she qualified as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher.
She is passionate about bringing a holistic approach to health and wellbeing and enjoys working with individuals and groups in person and online. Lucy specialises in facilitating embodied mindfulness and tai chi courses. Her all-time favourite slogan is ‘Choose to stay curious.’
