(This is a transcript of talk given at the inaugural meeting of Mindfulness Ottawa, Ottawa ON 2012 November 21. The preliminary section on "laying down the path by walking" has been excluded.) Let me share here what we have distilled out of 10 years of our path - what Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi calls “one [...]
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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 [...]
A Celebration of 10-years and a new site!
The OMC began in 2003 with a class of 10 people drawn from our private practice. We met in a conference room at the Riverside Hospital that barely fit 12 of us and a three-section oak conference table. Each evening that table had to be stacked in the corner so we could do the Body [...]
A Rationale for an Ethics-Based Mindfulness Program
This is a slide from Dr. Richard Davidson's keynote speech at the 10th Annual Scientific Conference of The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, March 31, 2012. The text in the second bullet reads: Basic research on "naturally occurring" virtuous qualities; Toward a scientific foundation for secular ethics. The third bullet reads: [...]
New courses at the OMC
We are thrilled to announce three new courses scheduled on the OMC roster. Managing Chronic Illness Discovering our lives may be limited because of a chronic illness can be difficult to accept. Emotionally and psychologically, this is a challenge in a world that values productivity and performance. Often, we spend time trying to push past [...]
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