Valley Mindfulness MBSR (CE Credit Only)
SKU:
$95.00
$95.00
Presenter(s): David Spound, Certified MBSR Instructor (Center for Mindfulness)
CE/CPE Credit: Up to 30.0 credit hours
Target Audience:
Psychology
Licensed Professional Counselors
Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Registered Dietitian
Nurses
Learning Level: Introductory
Course Type:
Live Program, to be purchased from Valley Mindfulness
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WHAT IS MBSR?
MBSR is a program based on the practice of mindfulness. The key to mindfulness is a non-judgmental awareness that enables you to respond with greater clarity, stability and understanding to life’s stressors, rather than reacting in unhealthy ways.
Pioneered in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979, MBSR is highly respected in the medical community, with classes in over 200 hospitals nationwide. Research has proven MBSR to be an evidence-based treatment modality for a number of different maladies, including chronic pain, hypertension, Cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders
Over the past 15 years, medical training centers (for physicians, occupational therapists, nurses) have begun to incorporate MBSR in their training curricula. However, many hospital staff members have not received MBSR training in their graduate programs. Participation in this program may not only assist hospital staff members in becoming more aware of the specifics of mindfulness practices, thereby facilitating their ability to make appropriate client referrals, but also enhance their own innate ability to cope with stress in general (e.g. stressful client load, challenging clients, personal stressors).
The program consists of eight weekly classes (between 2 1/2 and 3 hours), and a one-day silent retreat (on a weekend) between sessions six and seven. Participants who complete the course can enhance their ability to relax, focus, improve performance, reduce anger, cope with chronic pain, live in the moment, find balance, clarity and stability, and access inner resources of strength and wisdom.
MBSR Learning Objectives
Orientation
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
This highly participatory, supportive, and structured program will provide you with:
· Guided instruction in mindful meditation practices · Gentle stretching and mindful yoga
· Group dialogue and mindful communication exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life
· Daily home assignments
· Home practice materials
MBSR is a program based on the practice of mindfulness. The key to mindfulness is a non-judgmental awareness that enables you to respond with greater clarity, stability and understanding to life’s stressors, rather than reacting in unhealthy ways.
Pioneered in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979, MBSR is highly respected in the medical community, with classes in over 200 hospitals nationwide. Research has proven MBSR to be an evidence-based treatment modality for a number of different maladies, including chronic pain, hypertension, Cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders
Over the past 15 years, medical training centers (for physicians, occupational therapists, nurses) have begun to incorporate MBSR in their training curricula. However, many hospital staff members have not received MBSR training in their graduate programs. Participation in this program may not only assist hospital staff members in becoming more aware of the specifics of mindfulness practices, thereby facilitating their ability to make appropriate client referrals, but also enhance their own innate ability to cope with stress in general (e.g. stressful client load, challenging clients, personal stressors).
The program consists of eight weekly classes (between 2 1/2 and 3 hours), and a one-day silent retreat (on a weekend) between sessions six and seven. Participants who complete the course can enhance their ability to relax, focus, improve performance, reduce anger, cope with chronic pain, live in the moment, find balance, clarity and stability, and access inner resources of strength and wisdom.
MBSR Learning Objectives
Orientation
- Summarize the history of the MBSR program in the United States
- Practice a brief mindful breathing meditation practice
- Discuss risks and benefits of participating in the MBSR program
- Define mindfulness
- Summarize a mindful eating meditation
- Summarize a body scan meditation
- Practice body scan meditation in the classroom setting.
- Discuss the role of perception and conditioning in the appraisal and assessment of stress
- Practice a mindful breathing meditation
- Practice a mindful sitting meditation, with awareness of breath and body.
- Practice a mindful yoga meditation
- Identify thoughts, feelings and body sensations experienced during pleasant events calendar home practice
- Practice a mindful standing yoga routine
- Identify thoughts, feelings and body sensations experienced during unpleasant events calendar home practice
- Discuss the physiological and psychological bases of stress reactivity
- Practice a 40-minute sitting meditation
- List common behaviors used to cope with stress
- Describe how mindfulness makes it possible to respond versus react to stress
- Practice a mindful yoga routine
- Practice a 40-minute sitting meditation
- List 3 strategies for dealing with stressful communications
- Practice a mindful yoga meditation
- Practice a sitting meditation
- Practice walking meditation
- Practice mindful eating
- Practice "mountain" or "lake" meditation
- Practice a loving-kindness meditation
- Practice a “yoga choices” exercise
- Practice a 40-minute internal monitoring (choiceless awareness) meditation
- Practice a "what do we take in" exercise
- Practice a body scan meditation
- Practice a choiceless awareness meditation
- Discuss ways of incorporating mindfulness in everyday life
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
This highly participatory, supportive, and structured program will provide you with:
· Guided instruction in mindful meditation practices · Gentle stretching and mindful yoga
· Group dialogue and mindful communication exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life
· Daily home assignments
· Home practice materials