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Inviting Awareness to Become Your Default Mode
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Come experience mindfulness with one of the world’s leading practitioners and learn how to truly implement these practices in your life to improve your present-moment awareness as a therapist and utilise these practices with your clients. In this session you'll discover:
- How present moment awareness is actually developed in the brain, and why it’s critical for our health
- Skills for diving deeply into what is going on at subtle levels of experience to unlock stuck places in our minds
- How these practices enhance your connection to your work and your clients through the ability to deeply listen and engage in dialogue.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
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.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jon Kabat-Zinn receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jon Kabat-Zinn has no relevant non-financial relationships.
