Integrating Mindfulness Meditation into Health Care: An Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
CPSY x803
| Day | Sunday, October 26, 2008 |
|---|---|
| Time | 12pm-6pm |
| Room | Arts and Sciences, Wiegand Room |
| Credit | 0.6 CEUs, 6 CE Hours |
| Cost | $140.00 |
*Please bring a lunch with you to the workshop!
Description
This workshop is an intensive introduction to a meditation-based program, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). The program is founded upon the Buddhist practice of mindfulness meditation. However, MBSR is offered as a universal approach to coping with stress, which transcends culture and religion. This workshop will include a brief theoretical overview of mindfulness and highlight research demonstrating its potential efficacy across a wide range of stress-related disorders. The focus, however, will be on facilitating an experiential understanding of mindfulness through various mindfulness practices and exercises. The intention of this course is to introduce the basic model of mindfulness, and to explore ways of applying it both professionally and personally.
Shauna L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Instructor
Shauna L. Shapiro, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, and previously served as adjunct professor for Andrew Weil's Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona. Her focal area of interest is mindfulness meditation, which led her to study in Thailand and Nepal, as well as in the West with teachers including Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein, Eugene Cash, Roger Walsh, Alan Wallace, and Shinzen Young. She further trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts with Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues. Dr. Shapiro has conducted numerous research studies exploring the effects of MBSR across a wide range of populations. She has published over three dozen journal articles and book chapters, and presented her work internationally. A recent area of interest is bringing contemplative practice and mindfulness into education. Dr. Shapiro is the recent recipient of the Contemplative Mind and Society fellowship resulting in the development of a new graduate course "Mindfulness and Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice."
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