A New Earth: Mindfulness Program for Stress, Anxiety & Emotional Regulation

This therapist-led 6 week mindfulness program helps you reduce stress and anxiety, calm anger and emotional triggers, and break free from trauma feedback loops that keep you stuck.
Inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and grounded in evidence-based mindfulness techniques, this group supports you in letting go of the past and reconnecting with a deeper sense of calm, clarity, and presence.

Facilitated online by John Woychuk, MA, CCC
Mindful Groups • Canada-Wide

Register Now for A New Earth Mindfulness Group Online: January 5 - 16, 2026

What This 6-Week Mindfulness Program Helps With

This group is designed to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being using practical, accessible mindfulness tools.
Participants often experience:

• Reduced stress and anxiety

• Calmer responses to anger, frustration, and conflict

• Healthier emotional regulation

• Less overthinking and rumination

• Better containment of negative thought loops and reactive patterns

• Increased inner steadiness and resilience

• More presence, clarity, and grounded awareness

Whether you're new to mindfulness or returning to practice, you’ll learn techniques that support real, sustainable change.

Why Mindfulness Works for Stress, Anxiety & Emotional Triggers

Mindfulness teaches you how to:

Reduce stress and anxiety with presence

The key is to see mental emotional patterns occurring. This brings an ability to "witness" the patterns or be with rather than in them. There is no fight needed - in fact fighting or ignoring what is happening doesn't work. Just clear seeing with no judgement, no analysis or attempt to solve it. This breaks the link that allows the pattern to self-perpetuate by taking over your sense of self.

Calm anger and frustration

Mindfulness helps you recognize emotional triggers early and create space before reacting.

Break free from old patterns

Mindfulness interrupts the automatic loops that keep old emotional pain in motion.

Let go of the past

By developing this witnessing faculty of non-judgmental awareness, over time and with repetition, the painful past loses all power to take over your thinking and behaviour and this is replaced by a background peace even when situations are difficult.

Improve emotional regulation

We will learn to recognize patterns which remind us to return to presence/mindfulness, but also to generate mindfulness in calmer moments - to choose presence and enter the present moment through a variety of means. This includes inner-body awareness, conscious breathing, giving attention to sensing in the present moment and more to help you stay centered during difficult moments.

Mindfulness is a powerful tool for shifting long-standing patterns — not by force, but through gentle awareness.

Who This Mindfulness Group Is For

This program is ideal for adults who are:

• Feeling overwhelmed with stress or life pressure

• Struggling with anxiety, overthinking, or racing thoughts

• Experiencing emotional reactivity

• Stuck in feedback loops or repeating old patterns

• Living on “autopilot” and disconnected from themselves

• Wanting to feel calmer, clearer, and more grounded

• Looking for a safe, therapist-led community for growth

• Interested in mindfulness as a tool for mental well-being

• Have some resonance with author and speaker, Eckhart Tolle (though reading the book prior to the group is not reqired)

No meditation experience required — just willingness to show up gently and consistently.

Session 1 — Mindfulness & Awakening From the Unconscious Mind

In this session, you’ll learn how to step out of overthinking and reconnect with the present moment. We explore what Eckhart Tolle calls “unconscious living” — the automatic patterns of thought, emotion, and habit that create stress and mental noise. Through grounding exercises and guided meditation, you’ll begin to notice the space between thoughts, interrupt rumination, and experience the calm clarity that comes from simply being aware.

Session 2 — Ego, Emotional Triggers & The Pain-Body

Here we explore the roots of emotional reactivity. You’ll learn how the “pain-body” — unresolved emotional residue from the past — fuels anger, frustration, anxiety, and conflict. This session teaches practical tools for recognizing early signs of activation, interrupting reactive patterns, and regulating your nervous system. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of why certain situations trigger you and how mindfulness can help you respond with more stability and self-compassion.

Session 3 — Conscious Relationships & Mindfulness in Communication

This session focuses on applying mindfulness in relationships. You’ll learn how unconscious patterns show up in communication — defensiveness, withdrawal, people-pleasing, over-explaining — and how to shift into grounded, authentic connection. Through partner exercises and mindful listening practices, you’ll discover how presence transforms conversations, reduces conflict, and builds deeper, more conscious relationships.

Session 4 — Acceptance, Letting Go & Working With Resistance

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up — it means learning how to release the internal resistance that keeps old patterns alive. In this session, you’ll explore the difference between avoidance and true acceptance. You’ll learn how mindfulness helps soften emotional blocks, interrupt repeating thought loops, and shift the parts of you that cling to the past. This session offers practical techniques for meeting difficult emotions with presence, making space for healing and change.

Session 5 — Inner Purpose, Stillness & Emotional Regulation

This session helps you access the deeper inner stillness that reduces stress, anxiety, and the depressive cycles that keep people feeling stuck. You’ll explore the difference between outer purpose (what you do) and inner purpose (how you show up). Through guided practices, you’ll learn how to regulate your emotions by returning to the body, calming the mind, and living from a more grounded center — creating a sense of purpose that arises naturally from presence.

Session 6 — Integration: Living With Presence, Ease & Clarity

In the final session, you’ll bring everything together. We explore how to integrate mindfulness into daily life in a sustainable way — during stress, conflict, work, relationships, and moments of emotional overwhelm. You’ll identify the patterns you’ve shifted, the tools that work best for your nervous system, and the habits that support ongoing presence. This session helps you create a realistic plan to continue living with more ease, clarity, and emotional freedom.

Why This Group Is Different

Therapy-Informed Mindfulness

Facilitated by a certified counsellor, blending psychological insight with mindfulness practice.

Trauma-Aware & Emotionally Safe

Gentle, grounded guidance without pushing, forcing, or overwhelming participants.

Experiential Learning

Meditations, partner practices, conscious dialogue, and weekly integration tools.

Mindfulness Rooted in Presence

Inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s teachings — accessible, practical, and deeply stabilizing.

Supportive Community

Grow alongside others who share similar struggles and intentions.

What’s Included

• 6 weekly 75 minute mindfulness sessions

• Guided meditations for stress and anxiety reduction

• Tools for anger, frustration, and emotional triggers

• Techniques for grounding and body-based mindfulness

• Partner exercises to enhance communication and presence

• Weekly integration practices

• Optional homework and reflection prompts

• Supportive community space

• Facilitated by John Woychuk, MA, CCC

About Your Facilitator

John Woychuk is a certified clinical counsellor specializing in mindfulness to treat a variety of mental health conditions from ADHD to anxiety, trauma, and depression.
He blends the depth of contemplative practice with therapeutic skill to help people reconnect with presence, soften old patterns, and live with greater clarity and calm.

His approach is warm, grounded, non-judgmental, and deeply attuned.

Schedule, Pricing & Registration

Next Group Start Date:

Monday evenings, 6:10 - 7:25 pm Pacific Time Zone (PST)

January 5 - February 16, 2026 (no session February 9th)

Investment:

$300

Register Now for A New Earth Mindfulness Group Online: January 5 - 16, 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need mindfulness experience?
No. This group is beginner-friendly and guided step-by-step.

Will this help with anxiety or overthinking?
Yes. The program is specifically designed for stress, anxiety, and rumination.

Is this trauma-informed?
Yes. It is grounding and stabilizing — not trauma processing.

Do I need to read the book (A New Earth)?
It's helpful to have a copy of the book in any form such as hard copy, digital or audio. You do not have to read the book before the group starts. The themes are explored in session.

Is this therapy?
It is group therapy which invites participants to share their feelings and experiences, though sharing is not required.

If you’re ready to reduce stress, calm anxiety, regulate emotions, and break free from old patterns — you’re warmly invited to join the next mindfulness group.

Reconnect with presence.
Softly shift the patterns that keep you stuck.
Learn how to live with greater ease, clarity, and emotional freedom.

Register Now for A New Earth Mindfulness Group Online: January 5 - 16, 2026