SELF-CARE THROUGH MINDFULNESS: A WEEKEND RETREAT
Friday, October 5, 5pm to Sunday, October 7, 2018, 2pm
Floyd EcoVillage, 188 EcoVillage Trail, Floyd, VA 24091

“This was amazing in expected and very unexpected ways.”
In its ongoing commitment to instilling mindfulness in Southwest Virginia, through education and outreach, Floyd-based nonprofit InStill Mindfulness SWVA is delivering Self-Care through Mindfulness: A Weekend Retreat, from the early evening of Friday, October 5 to the early afternoon of Sunday, October 7.
According to the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, mindfulness is “the ultimate success habit”, resulting in increased productivity, greater influence, better decision-making, improved health, and more happiness. Studies have found that mindfulness results in many beneficial, measurable changes including: improved regulation of emotions; improved communication skills; improved wellbeing; increased information processing speed; increased empathy and compassion; decreased stress and anxiety; and increased patience, gratitude, and body awareness.
In this experiential retreat, facilitators Joe Klein, Shimila Keenum, and Nenden Stillman will help participants integrate mindful awareness practices and social emotional intelligence exercises that are designed to help restore and maintain balance and inner peace amidst the stressors of everyday life.
Accommodation at the EcoVillage is included in the price, with all meals provided and catered by Chef de Cuisine Jason Smith. CEUs are available.
To register, visit instillmindfulness.org, call 540-227-6377, or email [email protected]

Joe Klein, LPC, CSAC, is the founder of iBme. He holds a vision of a new paradigm in education where individuals are supported in cultivating their birthright capacities for joy & love, wonder & curiosity, wisdom & inner genius. Joe brings playfulness, Earth connection and whole brain/whole body/whole-heartedness to his work as a counselor and meditation teacher. He teaches graduate courses, retreats and workshops on mindfulness at Radford University and provides mindfulness-infused counseling for people who struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, and addictions in Southwest Virginia. In 2014, Joe helped to co-found Springhouse Community School, which fosters connection to self, community and Earth through mentoring and project-based learning for teens in grades 7-12.
Shimila Keenum has dedicated herself to helping others through bridging the mind and body connection as a social worker and registered nurse. She leads a mindfulness meditation group at Horizon Behavioral Health, where she currently works as a Nurse Educator. She received her MSW from Radford University. Her research background is in mindfulness and burnout in the human services field. Shimila has been cultivating her own personal mindfulness practice for many years, which has inspired her passion to help others through teaching and co-facilitating experiential and didactic outpatient groups and public workshops.
Nenden Stillman-Runyon, LCSW, is a mental health therapist who brings mindfulness practices into her work with veterans at the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center. With an emphasis on cultivating awareness of the mind-body connection in trauma-informed therapy, she integrates mindfulness into individual and group settings and is continually impressed by its flexibility, effectiveness and expansive quality. Nenden continues to explore ways in which mindfulness can be used in work with chronic pain, and as a modality in combination with her training in EMDR. She also leads online mindfulness groups for brain injury survivors through Brain Injury Services of Southwestern Virginia’s CLiC Forward program. She received her MSW from Radford University, where she learned how to use mindfulness practice for personal and professional growth.

Self-Care through Mindfulness: A Weekend Retreat

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