Lunch & Learn with Laura Kempel

Are you at that time of the year where finding balance seems impossible?!

Come and join our guest speaker, Dr Laura Kampel, for this special Lunch & Learn session - our final one for 2022!

Finding Balance: Mindfulness for Life will lay the foundation for participants to understand basic principles of mindfulness, develop a personal meditation practice, and to apply the principles in their daily life in an ongoing basis.

The session will cover:

• Background to mindfulness 
• Research behind mindfulness
• The benefits of mindfulness
• How to practice mindfulness
• A practice

About Laura:

Laura currently holds the position as Head of Clinical Services, at the Black Dog Institute Clinical Services and also works part-time in private practice.

She completed her clinical psychology training at the University of New South Wales and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for over 30 years. She has worked with individuals and couples, as well as running and designing groups and workshops. She is an accredited Mindfulness Instructor and has been running mindfulness workshops for individuals and groups for the last 15 years. She is focused on making mindfulness easy to understand, accessible and integrated into everyday experience. She is an approved Supervisor by the Psychology Board of Australia. She has an interest in E-mental health and its application. She completed her PhD at UNSW, School of Psychiatry and the Black Dog Institute and she evaluated a mindfulness app (Headspace) in the University population.

Please join us for a much needed session to develop tools around finding some balance and practicing mindfulness as we go into a particularly busy end of year season. Lunch is provided!