Please join the Alumni of the OMC for an evening of meditation and a Q&A on practice. This monthly session is best suited for those who have taken a mindfulness-based stress reduction program or who have a personal meditation practice. Date: Tuesday November 30, 2010 Time: 6 -8 PM (please arrive 10 minutes early) Place: [...]
We Are Poetry – Mindfulness Matters (via Indigenous People’s Literature Weblog)
Wonderful connection to the poetry that is our life. The psychotherapist Connelly turned to William Carlos Williams to elucidate the "poetry" of living. Williams said, "The underlying meaning of all [our patients] want to tell us an have always failed to communicate is the poem, the poem which their lives are being lived to realize" [...]
Magic and the Theory of Everything
When we first begin to practice being mindful, it can be confusing about the intent of the practice. Participants in our courses often ask if not being "dragged away by our feelings" means we are not supposed to feel anything. They wonder if being mindful means giving up all the things that bring them joy. [...]
MBCT course at Kripalu
Our dear colleagues Susan Woods and Miv London are teaching a weekend-long course in MBCT at Kripalu. From the Kripalu site: The Mindful Heart of Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Susan Woods and Miriam London Susan Woods, MSW, LICSW, is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in private practice. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings since [...]
Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
There is a cute campfire song you may have sung in your childhood: Be kind to your fine feathered friends 'Cause that duck may be somebody's mother... It probably brings a smile to your face to think of acts of kindness towards a duck and knowing that through such kindness its babies will benefit. Somehow [...]
Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic 