Mindfulness for Mental Health Professionals
Friday, July 25
Discover how mindfulness can be a powerful adjunct to the practice of psychotherapy. Whether practiced personally by the therapist or used as an intervention in session, mindfulness can benefit the quality of our work with our clients.
The practice of mindfulness provides a way of living that can help people develop self-awareness, access and process emotion effectively, reduce reactivity to thoughts and urges, and open to internal compassion and intuition. Research shows significant reductions in anxiety, depression, and stress-related physical symptoms for those who practice mindfulness.
In this course, we will learn about the basic concepts of mindfulness, practice mindfulness meditation, discuss the practical application of these concepts in our own lives as mental health professionals, and explore the application of mindfulness to counseling/psychotherapy.
Practicing Mindfulness with the Dark Emotions: A Radically Different Way to Transform Emotions
Saturday, September 6
Can we be mindful in difficult moments? It brings great pleasure to be present for happy moments. But difficult moments challenge us. We wrestle with difficult emotions by pushing them away, denying them, or judging them. All the while, this struggle actually makes the process of working through them even more difficult.
Join us in this exploration of mindfulness and how it can help us experience, learn from, and transform emotions with grace, acceptance, and resourcefulness. Mindfulness, the intentional cultivation of non-judgmental, present-moment awareness, can help us awaken to our emotions more fully, and allow them to be present and to move through us with less struggle.
Research on mindfulness reports reduction in the immediate effects of stress and long-lasting, positive changes for practitioners. Those who practice mindfulness have also experienced significant decreases in anxiety, depression, and a variety of physical symptoms. The training helps people gain self-awareness, access and process emotion, reduce reactivity to thought and urges, and access internal compassion and intuition.
This workshop offers a day of instruction, practice, and discussion, in which participants will learn how to foster the practice of mindfulness meditation and the intentional focus on moment-to-moment experience.
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