Mindfulness Meets Clinical Practice-A New Paradigm for Healing – Jon Kabat-Zinn & Other

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The growing popularity of Mindfulness has brought not only an increased awareness of its power to deepen the therapeutic conversation, but also a host of new questions about how best to apply it within the therapeutic context.

That’s why we invited Mindfulness experts Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Ron Siegel,Connirae Andreas, and Christopher Germer to join us for 6 lively conversations on the nuts-and-bolts of integrating Mindfulness-based approaches into your clinical practice.

Mindfulness Meets Clinical Practice: A New Paradigm for Healing is a 6-session online course that will help you deepen your understanding of how and why Mindfulness works in clinical practice and introduce you to the Mindfulness-based approaches and tools that can transform your practice—and your life.

What’s the Promise of Mindfulness for Your Clinical Practice?

Imagine your practice evolving as you integrate Mindfulness-based practices with your current approaches. Think about the benefits to your clients—relief from stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. Envision increased positive outcomes as you customize Mindfulness-based approaches to your clients’ specific needs. Imagine talking to your clients about the benefits of Mindfulness in ways they can really understand.

This all-new online course—Mindfulness Meets Clinical Practice—offers the information and insight you need to transform your practice. It covers:

• A wide variety of Mindfulness-based approaches available to use in your clinical practice
• Which approaches are most effective for specific situations and symptoms
• Powerful tools for increasing clients’ capacity for living more fully in the present moment
• Correcting the misperceptions and distortions that have accompanied the extraordinary explosion of interest in Mindfulness
• The role of Mindfulness practice as an antidote to digital overstimulation and cybertrance
• How to handle clients’ questions about spirituality in the ordinary context of clinical treatment
• Best practices for making sure that changes experienced in clinical settings transfer into clients’ everyday lives

Here’s What You’ll Learn from These Mindfulness Leaders

The Power of Mindfulness Practice Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Explore how to extend the power of fully engaged awareness in your life and work with the leading figure in the Mindfulness movement. The topics covered will include:

• Debunking popular myths about Mindfulness 
• Distinguishing Mindfulness as an experiential practice as opposed to a spiritual concept 
• Understanding the role of “mind wandering” and the “default mode network” in our ordinary consciousness 
•  How to reclaim our lives from our limiting identity stories as we embrace our embodied awareness in the present moment 

Jon Kabat-Zinn is internationally known for his work as a scientist, bestselling author, and Mindfulness meditation teacher. He’s professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic and its Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society.

Creating a Sacred Space in Psychotherapy Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.

Discover new ways to address the larger issues of purpose and meaning that often lie at the edge of the therapeutic conversation by incorporating rituals that invoke life’s larger mysteries. One of the field’s most respected Buddhist practitioners will discuss how to: 

•  Use rituals to enhance the experience of safety, communion, and soulfulness in therapy 
• Introduce grounding and cleansing practices as well as a variety of spiritual traditions to deepen the impact of trauma treatment 
• Bring poetry, myths, and storytelling into the therapeutic conversation 
• Address issues of morality and virtue issues in the treatment room 

Jack Kornfield cofounded the Insight Meditation Society, is a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center, and has led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama. His books have been translated into 20 languages. They include The Art of Forgiveness and Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are.

Cultivating Non-Dual Awareness Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.

Here’s a chance to experience an alternative to traditional meditation that’s helped people with insomnia, relationship issues, difficult emotions, and much more. You’ll learn:

• Concrete, step-by-step practices for dissolving the ordinary sense of self 
• Exercises that help clients achieve deep relaxation and a resetting of the nervous system 
• A process that naturally melts away many issues that previously seemed like intractable problems 
• Techniques for achieving greater access to natural wisdom, compassion, humor, and creativity 

Connirae Andreas has been teaching and developing Neuro-linguistic Programming for 30 years. She’s best known for her work developing Core Transformation, a method of gentle transformation through uncovering states of oneness, peace, and presence.

The Fiction of the Self Ron Siegel, Psy.D.

Explore a provocative alternative to our everyday self-absorption that offers practical applications of the Buddhist concept of anatta, or not-self, to enable clients to:

• Develop a broader sense of self, challenging the role of “authenticity” and “being true to oneself” as therapeutic goals 
• Transform the fundamental nature of their internal conversations and personal identity 
• Embrace “insignificance” as a way of both dealing with loss and entering more fully into life and the present moment 
• Understand the of pitfalls of bringing anatta into the therapy room, including the dangers of the bypassing emotional vulnerability 

Ron Siegel, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, is author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems, coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and coauthor of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy.

Escaping the Cybertrance Tara Brach, Ph.D.

The alternative reality that the digital world has created has altered our relationship with our senses, bodies, and the very notion of who we are. Explore how to help clients both deepen their awareness of their relationship to the cyberworld and challenge its powerful grip on them by: 

• Enhancing their ability to pause and deepen their experience of presence in the world 
• Recognizing the trancelike quality of digital reality and how to awaken from it 
• Exploring the psychology of boredom and how it keeps us from being fully connected to the moment 
• Developing a cyber-diet to guide your daily use of digital technology and maximize its positive benefits 

Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC. In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, she’s the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart.

The Power of Self-Compassion Christopher Germer, Ph.D.

Explore the growth of the self-compassion movement as a complement to the role of traditional Mindfulness in therapeutic practice. You’ll learn:

• How to distinguish mindfulness from self-compassion and self-compassion from self-pity 
• The fundamental principles and practices of self-compassion training, especially as an antidote for shame 
• How to help clients develop alternatives to the unholy trinity of self-criticism, self-isolation, and self-absorption 
• How to create a culture of heartfelt kindness in the consulting room and equip clients with concrete tools to make therapy more portable between sessions 

Christopher Germer is a clinical psychologist specializing in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy. He’s a founding member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, and coeditor of Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice.