🆕 SOLD OUT! BRAND-NEW! Mindfulness on Land and Water 🆕
2025-07-19 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONE-Olympia, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA, 98502, United States
This workshop is now sold out. Please consider registering for our 2-day Mindfulness on Land and Water Retreat. MORE INFO HERE>>>
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Space Limited to 12 People!
Mindfulness on Land and Water
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Saturday, July 19th, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Options: If you are coming to the area from out of town, several lodging options at reduced rates for Cascadia attendees are available, including staying at the ONE Center. For all lodging accommodation options, please visit the ONE Center website here and email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $229.00
All 2025 Dates for Mindfulness on Land and Water at the ONE Center:

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This workshop is for colleagues ready to experience new ways of learning and growing in real-time by taking the practice of mindfulness off the cushion and onto the water. You’re invited to ONE, a nature-based retreat center for health care professionals on the beautiful South Salish Sea outside Olympia, WA. During this professional development workshop, we will be exploring and experiencing the practice of mindfulness on both land and water!
The first part of the day is in our lovely flower-filled Courtyard Garden focused on learning what mindfulness is, how it’s different from meditation, and reviewing research supporting this practice. You’ll learn how stress plays a key role in illness and disease (physical and mental) and how to prevent and reduce illness for yourself and your clients, too. We’ll share simple, evidence-based practices to increase awareness, empowering you to recognize and reduce stress in daily life. You’ll learn how to effectively pull the rip cord on the parasympathetic nervous system to bring yourself back to center whenever and wherever stress shows up. We’ll help you develop the language of mindfulness and explore ways of integrating these practices into your work with clients.
After lunch, we will head to beautiful Gallagher Cove for sea kayaking 101 skills training. You’ll learn about mindful kayaking, which is an invitation to practice non-strimming on the water. “There is no place to go, and no place be. This is it, right here, right now.” Together, we’ll enjoy a slow, gentle paddle while “field testing” our newfound skills for stress management. By paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, we’ll learn how to navigate the stress of unpleasant emotions, body sensations, and distorted thinking by choosing new ways of being through the practice of mindfulness. And won’t it be fun to also cultivate mindfulness by noticing the awe and wonder of beauty all around us in nature, in community with colleagues? After all, noticing the pleasant is a practice, too, and one that serves us very well.
Whether you’re an avid paddler or have no experience but feel called from the South Salish Sea, we got you! Gallagher Cove is a protected, beautiful place to learn and grow. We’ll provide thorough instruction focused on safety and all the equipment needed (sea kayak, pdf, paddle). We invite you to camp on the land before and/or after the workshop to really drop in and enjoy mindfulness on land and water.
OBJECTIVES:

Understand the research-based benefits of integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) in clinical practice.
Learn what mindfulness is and how to practice it for yourself so you can teach your clients.
Explore the language, concepts, and phenomena of mindfulness.
Learn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT Thinking Errors) & health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), enabling you to explain the Autonomic, Sympathetic, and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems to clients.
Learn simple, accessible practices to recognize stress reactions and effective ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
Learn emotional regulation skills through mindfulness practice.

What attendees of this workshop are saying:
“I am leaving here today lighter, refreshed and restored. I wish everyone providing any mental health care could come here and have the opportunity to rebuild themselves. What I experienced today supports my work as a professional care provider by providing me with the ability to be more mindful of how I am feeling, allowing me to be more present for the families I serve.”
“I LOVED the time on the water, the energy of this place and of Brenda & Heidi. I have begun to introduce mindfulness to my clients and this workshop gave more tools and insights about how to build in more mindfulness when working with youth.”
“I enjoyed ALL of it! Never felt pressured. I learned so much about mindfulness and tips for myself and others to be present, aware, and to change. Brenda and Heidi were amazing guides who care deeply about the subject matter. I learned to be more mindful and cope with stress better. This will help my attitude and health (mental, physical, and spiritual).”
