2019 Professional Training Workshops: Entry & Advanced Skills in Mindfulness-Based Interventions The OMC Mindfulness Teacher Training Program is open for registration in Ottawa beginning with the first module in May 2019 (see below). To register please use the link at the end of the module descriptions. CEU credits for Psychologists offered by CPA*. Our Teacher [...]
Tag: ethics
Mindfulness, Ethics and End-of-Life Care: The impact of Canada’s Supreme Court decision
Today, February 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal against the "blanket prohibition on assisted suicide." An earlier appeal by Sue Rodriguez (Rodriguez v. British Columbia) in 1993 to have the Criminal Code ruling against assisted suicide declared unconstitutional was denied. The upholding of the current appeal (Carter v. Canada) is destined to be [...]
We are 10 Years Old!
Ten years ago, we (Frank Musten & Lynette Monteiro) were inspired by the development of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (see Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A new approach to preventing relapse by Zindel Segal, J. Mark Williams & John Teasdale; Guilford Press) and, after a brief correspondence with Dr. Segal, launched the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic. It [...]
An Ethical Path to Compassionate Community: The fire in the heart of mindfulness
(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 [...]
Fostering the Mind of Poverty
Is it unethical to bring awareness to certain life circumstances? by Lynette Monteiro & Frank Musten The Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic Teacher Training Retreat brings out the best in our participants and this session was no different. One of the questions that arose from our examination of the impact of the various exercises we invite a [...]
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