Teacher Training Graduates 2010

On November 28, 2010, eleven participants of the Professional Training Program in Mindfulness-Based Interventions completed their practicuum and training retreat.  This is an intense program requiring them to attend the 8-week course, write reflections on books and articles, design their own program or attend to the unique needs of their own mental health population, and [...]

Five Skillful Habits – the heart of the OMC program

We're thrilled to share our first publication in a journal: Five Skillful Habits: An ethics-based mindfulness intervention has been published in Counseling and Spirituality, 2010. This is a culmination of 7 years of courses at the OMC.  We've always been conerned about the ways in which the idea of mindfulness can be misunderstood in a teaching [...]

Welcome

Welcome to the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic blog! We hope to share with you various aspects of mindfulness practice that we teach in our 8-week Mindfulness-based Symptom Management Program.  The OMC has been providing care since 2003 and we have been grateful to practice along with over 300 participants in our programs. Join us here as [...]