We are pleased to announce a collaborative venture with Leading Edge Seminars to present this workshop with Michael Stone. Note that you will receive a discount by indicating you are responding via the OMC links. Michael Stone is a psychotherapist and renowned lecturer on the integration of mindfulness and mental health. His previous presentation in Ottawa [...]
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2015 M4 Teacher Training Graduates
We are proud to celebrate our 10th anniversary of Teacher Training and welcome our 2015 cohort of mindfulness teachers who completed the M4 training requirements in the first full 3-day training retreat. Congratulations to all and we look forward to an on-going sharing in your insights and great work! Many thanks as well to our [...]
I am not this body: Mindfulness for Pain Management
Pain is unavoidable. We inhabit a system that is engineered to become wonky, cranky, and otherwise uncooperative over time. We know this conceptually but not when and how it matters. Why me? What now? tend to be our responses when the body fails us - as it inevitably does. In case you think this is only a [...]
Self-Compassion Practices for Emotional Distress: It’s not just about being kind
Self-Compassion practices and programs are gaining momentum in psychological treatments and look like they might well become the next wave of transforming our painful feelings. Mindful Self-Compassion (1), developed by Drs. Christopher Germer and Kristen Neff, is an approach that can be both an adjunct to conventional therapies as well as a stand-alone treatment model. The interesting [...]
The Refugees of Mindfulness: Rethinking Psychology’s Experiment with Meditation
A well-thought through article on informed consent and the impact of mindfulness meditation in clinical settings.
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