Is it unethical to bring awareness to certain life circumstances? by Lynette Monteiro & Frank Musten The Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic Teacher Training Retreat brings out the best in our participants and this session was no different. One of the questions that arose from our examination of the impact of the various exercises we invite a [...]
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Teacher Training Graduates 2012
Give It Away & Simply Love We are thrilled to introduce our new graduates from the 2012 Teacher Training Program in Foundations of Mindfulness. These amazing health care professionals, clinical psychology PhD candidates and medical students, and even an ethicist took part in the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management program as participant-observers, wrote papers and reviews [...]
Lions and Tigers and Compassion. Oh my!
A Triad of Book Reviews: Understanding the “Yellow Brick Road” to Compassion Guest Author: Brittany Glynn, PhD(c) at University of Ottawa In the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the central character Dorothy finds herself swept away by a cyclone and lost in the Land of Oz. With nothing but her small dog Toto, ruby-red slippers, [...]
Starting to Dance Again
Book review: Mindfulness: An eight-week plan for finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams & Danny Penman Mindfulness: An eight-week plan for finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams and Danny Penman is a book that you want on your side. You want it in your back pocket, in your knapsack, in your [...]
Simple Practices for the Ordinary Life
Book Review: How to train a wild elephant and other adventures in mindfulness by Jan Chozen Bays by Guest Reviewer Aarathi Selvan My day began with racing thoughts. I had so much to do and the to-do lists kept showing up at the speed of light. Almost. Every time I became aware of them, I would try [...]
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