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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Healthcare Providers
March 23, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - May 25, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
Overview:
This 10-week course is geared specifically towards health care professionals and designed to promote both personal wellness and professional resilience and capacity. It provides the unique opportunity for health care professionals to develop their personal mindfulness practice as well as to examine the interface between mindfulness practice and the arts of healing and teaching.
Mindfulness is a non-judgmental way of relating to life circumstances so that they canbe approached with greater calm, clarity and wisdom.
Over 20 years of research has shown that MBSR participants report:
- Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms
- Greater ability to cope with stress
- Greater facility to learn
- Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
Program Goals:
- To understand the conceptual foundation of mindfulness
- To develop or deepen a personal meditation practice
- To promote personal health
- To promote professional resilience and capacity
- To enhance interpersonal relationships
- To learn to apply mindfulness in clinical practice and/or education
Format:
- Guided mindfulness meditation and yoga practices
- Exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life
- Methods to deepen interpersonal communication
- Discussion of ways to integrate mindfulness into clinical practice and/or education
10-week Program, plus all-day retreat
Day of week: Tuesdays
Mar 22, 2016 – May 24, 2016
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
All-day silent retreat: Saturday, May 14, 2016
For further information and application please visit http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/facdev/documents/MBSRsp2016.pdf