Five Skillful Habits – the heart of the OMC program

We're thrilled to share our first publication in a journal: Five Skillful Habits: An ethics-based mindfulness intervention has been published in Counseling and Spirituality, 2010. This is a culmination of 7 years of courses at the OMC.  We've always been conerned about the ways in which the idea of mindfulness can be misunderstood in a teaching [...]

Neural pruning

Neural pruning is the process of removing neurons that are no longer used or useful in the brain.  Don't try it at home!  It's a natural process in the brain that happens at different developmental stages.  Children's brains grow rapidly and in the flood of new learning, neural pathways are created that are useful in [...]