Personalizing Mindfulness Meditation Practice: Finding the Right Fit for Clients – Joan Borysenko

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As meditation practice is increasingly being integrated into psychotherapy, therapists too often see it as a one-size-fits-all remedy. But these practices actually include a range of tools that can be more effective when tailored to a client’s history, personality organization, religious or spiritual orientation, cultural background, and presenting problems. We’ll explore how to help assure the right fit among three different families of practices (categorized by Dahl, Lutz, and Davidson) to better address the problems clients present.

1. Differentiate between attentional, constructive, and deconstructive approaches within the therapeutic setting
2. Explore mindfulness practices that are best to integrate with stress-related disorders, addictions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and interpersonal struggles
3. Explore the distinctive clinical applications of concentration meditation, centering prayer, and mindfulness practices
4. Perform meditative exercises to inform therapeutic treatment

• Welcome
  • Meditation Exercise
  • Overview of Objectives
    • Typology of Meditation and When to Use
• Mind-Body Meditation Beginning
  • Meditation as Medicine
  • Emerging Era of Personalization
  • The Body-Mind
  • The Relaxation Response
  • Dawn of Mindfulness Meditation
    • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
    • Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive-Behavioral
• How Can We Personalize Meditation Practice?
  • Starting with Basics
  • Brain Science
• Meditative Styles
  • Attentional
    • Meta-Awareness
    • Narrowing, Open-Focused
    • Types
  • Constructive
    • Alterations of Thoughts and Emotions
    • Types
  • Deconstructive
    • Self-Inquiry and Insight
    • Types
• Self-Help and Spirituality
• Teaching Meditation and Personalization
  • Motivation
  • Listen to Client
  • Daily Progress Cards
  • 5 Basic Types of Meditation
• Instructed Meditation Practice
  • Concentration Meditation
• Questions & Comments
• Demonstration Regarding Cognitive Dialogue