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Having developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an approach that changed many western medical practices, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been dubbed the “godfather of modern mindfulness.” But for those who’ve followed his work over the last 50+ years, he’s been something else: their greatest teacher. Humble, practical, and full of spiritual wisdom and humour.
A Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School—where he founded the MBSR clinic in 1979 and years later, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine—Kabat-Zinn is the author of 15 books, including the time-honoured bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are and the recently released Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief. Used to treat everything from anxiety to trauma to immune response, with everyone from hospital patients to combat veterans, his teachings have produced a community of global healers, with more than 1,000 MBSR instructors and over 740 MBSR programs in hospitals, clinics, and health centres worldwide.
In this can’t-miss training, he’ll explore why mindfulness is so foundational to psychotherapy and how it can continue to provide all of us—clients and therapists—with a refuge for healing, acceptance, and radical acts of love during tumultuous times. The message of mindfulness, Kabat-Zinn once told the Networker, “Is an invitation to everybody to wake up to the true dimensionality of who we are.” Open yourself to an unforgettable experience of being in the here and now.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 1.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Handout (1.1 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| The Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Transcripts (171 KB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Handout - French (1.1 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Handout - Italian (1.1 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Handout - German (1.1 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Liberative Nature of Mindfulness - Handout - Spanish (1.1 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special, "Healing and the Mind", Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine. Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.
Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994) and Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla.
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