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. 2024 Sep 10;24(3):100503. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100503

Table 1.

Mindfulness-based Group Therapy (MBGT) session overview.

Session 1: Mindfulness of breathing
  • Introduction and group set-up

  • Exercise & psychoeducation: Vagal breathing

  • Psychoeducation: The basics of mindfulness & mindfulness of breathing

  • Exercise: Using our breath as an anchor

  • Session wrap-up and weekly goal

Session 2: Mindfulness in nature
  • Review of out of session mindfulness goals

  • Psychoeducation: Biophilia- and attention theory

  • Exercise: Practicing mindfulness in nature

  • Psychoeducation: Use of our senses in nature

  • Exercise: 3–2–1 (“Three things I see, three things I hear…”)

  • Session wrap-up and weekly goal

Session 3: Mindfulness of Detachment
  • Review of out of session mindfulness goals

  • Psychoeducation: Our recording apparatus

  • Psychoeducation: The process of letting go

  • Exercise: Mindfulness of detachment

  • Exercise: Letting go

  • Session wrap-up and weekly goal

Session 4: Mindfulness of body awareness
  • Review of out of session mindfulness goals

  • Exercise: Our feet touch the ground

  • Psychoeducation: Mindfulness of body awareness

  • Exercise: Body scan

  • Overall wrap-up and feedback on group