Fine-Tuning the Clinical Applications of Mindfulness: Continuing Education for Health Professionals and Meditators
Health professionals in medicine, psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy are increasingly using mindfulness in their work. As defined by Jon Kabat-Zinn, “mindfulness is remembering to pay attention on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally.” In this way, we can catalyze learning, growing, healing, and transformation across our lifespan with a willingness to turn toward rather than away. The workshop is designed to help counter habitual denial, experiential avoidance, and maladaptive coping behaviors, by offering ways to effectively turn towards the actuality of what is happening in the present moment, even when it is frightening, unpleasant and unwanted.
Created to support health professionals currently utilizing mindfulness, the workshop also provides a powerful introduction for those professionals considering mindfulness as an addition to their repertoire. By utilizing everything that arises in life—the good, the bad, and the ugly—all blended into the crucible of first-person experience, participants will understand how everything becomes the teacher. This allows us to put lessons learned to good use in authentic and imaginative ways. Participants will explore the creative interface between personal experience and mindfulness, including formal practice, to develop appropriate ways to guide patients/clients in cultivating their own mindfulness.
speaker
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
This Workshop Will Help The Practitioner To:
Describe mindfulness and its application in medicine, psychology, and health care
Summarize the benefits of mindful presence to healing processes, psychosocial stress and the achieving of optimal performance
Utilize mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (mbct)
Apply one’s own first-person experience of mindfulness meditation when teaching this skill to patients/clients for their enhanced well-being
Assess the scientific evidence underlying specific clinical applications of mindfulness in medicine, psychology and psychiatry in promoting well-being and health
Demonstrate the different techniques of mindfulness practice, such as breathing, sitting meditation, yoga and walking meditation
Topics To Be Covered:
Mindfulness-based interventions require a personal mindfulness practice on the part of the therapist/instructor
The power of breath and sitting meditation
Tuning into your own experience in the present moment—mindful attunement/deep listening
Leading/teaching from within
Turning toward di?cult emotions, thoughts, sensations, and life events
Research-based evidence of the clinical e?cacy of mindfulness-based interventions
Schedule:
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
The Cultivation of Mindful Presence with a Patient: What it means, and periods of sitting meditation practice (focus on breath and body as a whole) and dialogue about first-person experience of participants
11:00 – 12 Noon
Review of Clinical Applications
Noon – 1 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Silent Practice Sitting meditation, standing meditation, mindful movement
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Dialogue about these specific practices
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Dyad exercises in mindful communication
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Conclusions and formulation of intentions for further personal and professional application
Continuing Education:
Psychologists
R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (7) hours.
Social Workers
CA: Course meets the qualifications for (7) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.
Marriage and Family Therapists
CA: Course meets the qualifications for (7) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.
Chemical Dependency Counselors
CA: Provider approved by CAADAC, Provider #4N-00-434-0208 for (7) CEHs.
Nurses
CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12224, for (7) contact hours.
Occupational Therapists
Occupational therapists will receive a certificate of completion for 7 PDUs.
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