Our inaugural course for burn out has yielded a treasure trove of information. Ten participants took part in the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Burn Out Resiliency Program from May to June. All ten participants completed the course and reported that it had changed their perspectives on how to manage the work-personal life dimensions more effectively. Measures of [...]
Teacher Training Graduates 2011
We are thrilled to present the Professional Training Program graduating class of 2011. An exciting mix of health care professionals coming from across the Ottawa-Valley community. Our newest teacher/facilitators of Mindfulness-Based Interventions are psychologists, social workers, clinical counsellors, coaches, addictions counsellors, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. They committed to participating in the 8-week program as participant-observers, [...]
The critical role of ethics as process in an MB program – a gentle critique of Grabovac, Lau and Willet’s article
A recent article, Mechanisms of Mindfulness: a Buddhist Psychological Model by Grabovac, Lau and Willett in Mindfulness attempted to re-insert Buddhist Psychology into the foundations of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Grabovac and her colleagues did a good job of putting the Three Dharma Seals (impermanence, suffering and nonself) into the service of explaining the mechanisms involved in mindfulness-based interventions. [...]
New Book by Bob Stahl & Steve Flowers
We are excited to announce the publication of a new book by Bob Stahl & Steve Flowers! Another opportunity to practice mindfulness and self-compassion to liberate ourselves from old patterns of self-criticism and self-hatred. Openning our hearts to kindness and self-care, we learn to treat ourselves as the precious being that we already are. Click [...]
The Power of Our Suffering
Marsha Linehan, founder of one of the most powerful therapeutic interventions, Dialectal Behavior Therapy, shared the history of her suffering last week. The story is too powerful to simply recap here or to offer any interpretations. We can only say that Dr. Linehan has brought a new level of integrity and beauty to the meaning [...]
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