Announcing An Eight Week Burnout Resiliency Training Program for Engaged High Performers We are currently accepting applications for the May 2011 Burnout Resiliency Training (BRT) Program offered by the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic. This program is being offered in addition to our Mindfulness Based Symptom Management (MBSM) Program. The BRT Program has been developed to meet [...]
An interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn 2006
“What if you are already complete? What if it doesn’t get any better than this? […] What if it were possible to hold the whole of it in awareness and allow it to be just as it already is. That would be an incredibly radical act and it would be an act of profound wisdom [...]
Mindfulness Meditation and Mental Health – news article on CBC’s The Journal
Zindel Segal discussing his recent research results from the recent MBCT study. Great comments by a practitioner, Suzanne Simoni, who has a very realistic appraisal of what mindfulness does.
International Conference on Mindfulness with Youth in Banff AB – July 15-17, 2011
From the Mindfulness Institute website: Mindfulness is a natural part of being human that involves present moment awareness and can be cultivated through formal and informal mindfulness exercises. Scientific research in this field demonstrates a multitude of positive outcomes in academic, psychological, and physical domains. Effects of mindfulness on the prefrontal cortex and interconnections involved in [...]
Freedom
Compulsion is being trapped in a known psychic reality, a dead-end space. Freedom is in the unknown. If you believe there is an unknown everywhere in your own body, in your relationships with other people, in political institutions, in the universe, then you have maximum freedom. If you examine old beliefs and realize they are [...]
Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic 