Inviting Awareness to Become Your Default Mode

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

Speaker

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD Related seminars and products

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Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special, "Healing and the Mind", Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine. Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.

Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994) and Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jon Kabat-Zinn receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jon Kabat-Zinn has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Summarise the potential mental and physical benefits of increased awareness.
2. Demonstrate how to introduce mindfulness meditation to clients.
3. Apply one mindfulness awareness practice.

Outline

Discover how mindfulness practices can serve as a regular source of renewal and reinvigoration in your life 

Describe the benefits and possibilities of making the daily effort to tune the instrument of your awareness 

Explore how mindfulness practices improve your ability as a therapist to connect with clients 

Experience mindfulness meditation from the inside out, as a way of being and a way of seeing 

Risks and Limitations 

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Social Workers
• Physicians 
• Psychologists

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