InterStrength™ Institute

At InterStrength, we are dedicated to helping you deeply understanding yourself and others to consciously navigate this rapidly changing and uncertain world. We seek to provide  information, frameworks, practices, and experiences so we can all empower ourselves, and others, to feel whole, complete and understood. 

In today's stressful times, we need more than mental frameworks to help us restore our equilibrium and manage our stress. Meditation is one of the tried and true methods that can help us. It also can help us increase our self-awareness as we deeply explore who we are at our core.

In every discipline and for every facilitator, teacher, or coach a way to de-stress is needed.  A practitioner's' ability to remain calm and access a better knowledge of self increases her/his ability to train and to help others in any realm and especially when increased self—knowledge is the goal.

We have partnered with Dr. Kathleen Nader to create a course that will give you the opportunity to develop the skill and habit of meditation. It will also help you discover the style of mediation that is best suited for you so you are more likely to sustain your practice and reap the benefits.   

Benefits of Meditation

Meditations have proven to reduce stress and to increase awareness. In addition to stress reduction and self-realization, meditation has been linked to a wide variety of benefits:

Physical: better health and improved sleep

Neurobiological: positive brain changes

Mental: better attention,  mental discipline, and calmness

Emotional: better self-skills such as perspective taking and improved emotion regulation

Spiritual: finding your true core self

Course Outcomes 

Self-Awareness

In addition to being refreshed/taught good meditation habits, participants will learn which sensory mode works best for them in meditation. An important self-discovery practice reveals the best personal way to meditate to suit one’s own natures. A variety of meditation practices can help to remove obstacles to finding the true or core self.

Dealing with Thoughts 

Methods are provided that help to deal with intrusive thoughts or memories, during meditation. Two different mindfulness techniques help participants to live in the here and now. There will also be methods to assist finding answers and problem solving. 

Practices 

A variety of meditation practices will be taught, including mindfulness and other techniques. There are methods from different paths and faiths (Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish), sound meditations, visual meditations, and energy and movement meditations. Some of the latter are believed to assist brain stem repair after traumas.