Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine |
A 7-Day Professional Training |
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Mindfulness is a universal human capacity, a way of paying attention that can be cultivated, sustained, and integrated into everyday life through deep inquiry fueled by the ongoing discipline of meditation practice. Its central aim is the relief of suffering and the uncovering of our true nature.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is an expression of mindfulness tailored to health and well-being in our contemporary society. For more almost 30 years, Drs. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli and their colleagues at the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society have pioneered MBSR and the integration of meditation and mindfulness into mainstream medicine, health care, and society through patient care, research, medical and professional education, and outreach to corporations, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions. Mindfulness has also become a core element of a number of psychological interventions such as Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
Since 1979, more than 16,000 people referred with a range of medical and psychological conditions have completed MBSR programs at the Stress Reduction Clinic. More than 6,000 health-care professionals have participated in MBSR professional training programs in the United States and Europe, and more than 200 clinics around the world are offering programs based on the model developed at the University of Massachusetts. Research has shown that most clinic participants experience long-lasting improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms, as well as major positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors and perception of self. A recently published randomized trial of MBSR showed changes in brain activation patterns consistent with more effective processing of negative emotions under stress and a correspondingly increased immune responsiveness in the meditation group compared to wait-listed controls. The work of the Stress Reduction Clinic has been featured in Bill Moyers's PBS documentary Healing and the Mind, on NBC's Dateline, on ABC's Chronicle, and on the PBS Latino community program, La Plaza.
This 7-day program is an opportunity for health-care professionals to train intensively in mindfulness meditation as it is taught at the Stress Reduction Clinic. While information on creating MBSR clinics is touched on, it is not a major focus of the retreat.
Professional Objectives:
After attending this workshop, participants will be better able to:
- Demonstrate the ongoing practice of the principles of mindfulness in silence, conversation, and dialogue
- Describe mindful approaches to stress, pain, grief, and anxiety within ourselves and when working with others
- Demonstrate the language and methods used for instructing and guiding others in the formal and informal methods of mindfulness meditation in various settings
- Discuss research supporting the clinical value of MBSR
- Describe the essential components of a viable mindfulness training program, including MBSR teacher readiness and competency criteria
- Explore the ethical and moral principles and the domains of non-harming, compassion, and wisdom that underlie mindfulness practice and MBSR
This program is open to health-care professionals and educators who come prepared for the intensive nature of the workshop and who understand the primary necessity of embodying mindfulness meditation practice in one's own life before attempting to teach it to others. The schedule and the work are rigorous and include both intensive training in mindfulness meditation and an ongoing exploration of its practical applications in health care and other settings.
Since the cardinal principle in doing this work is that it must come out of one's own extensive personal experience with meditation practice, participants who do not already have a strong daily personal meditation practice should not attend this retreat with the expectation of immediately returning home to open a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program. Ultimately, Kabat-Zinn and Santorelli believe that it is the depth of one's personal commitment to learning and growing, using this approach, that is most important. Integrating mindfulness into one's professional life comes out of that commitment and the imagination and effort it inspires.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the nationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 1979, the clinic has served more than 11,000 patients in the form of an eight-week long course. Prominently featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS special "Healing and the Mind" in 1993, the clinic and its research has continually demonstrated that most participants in its programs achieve long-lasting improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms, as well as major positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors. Kabat-Zinn is the author of the best-selling Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Saki F. Santorelli, Ed.D., M.A., is the director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center; the director of Clinical and Educational Services in the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society; and an assistant professor in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has been active in the emerging fields of mind-body and integrative medicine for 20 years and is engaged in the development of a range of experiential, mindfulness-based professional education and development programs and in pioneering initiatives in medical education.
During his career, he has trained thousands of people, including patients, physicians, nurses, teachers, clergy, business executives, inmates, and correctional staff. For more than a decade he has taught a program for medical students that explores the role of the contemplative mind in medicine and health care.
Please note: CE/CME credit available and included in the tuition. This program fulfills one of the requirements for entry into MBSR Teacher Certification Programs conducted by the Center for Mindfulness. Attendance at this retreat does not constitute authorization by Kabat-Zinn and Santorelli to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. A letter containing the retreat schedule will be sent upon registration. See the participant letter for more information (pdf format; must have Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Required reading before the program: Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness; and Santorelli, Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine. Also recommended but not required: Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. |
What Our Price Includes: Price above is for tuition only. See the accommodations page for housing information and fees. See the travel directions page for transportation information.
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