PSYCH 1114 - Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Professional Practice
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Discover easy and practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your work with clients, whether individually or in groups. Learn how mindfulness can support greater well-being and emotional intelligence, and help reduce anxiety, depression, emotional outbursts and addictive tendencies. Immerse yourself in an inside-out day learning environment where you cultivate and experience mindfulness practices for your personal life and professional work. Learn through didactic instruction, journaling, experiential exercises such as mindful walking and eating, and a variety of evidence-based tools and practices.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
As a result of your participation in this workshop, you will:
- Grasp a variety of evidence-based mindfulness exercises and skills that you can share with your clients and practice in your own life.
- Develop your awareness of mindfulness for supporting your clients to regulate emotions, work with obsessive thoughts, addictions, disordered eating, grief and loss.
- Learn the foundations of mindfulness for yourself and your clients to train the mind, open the heart, and nourish the body to bring greater balance and contentment.
- Experience the important skill of self-awareness so you and your clients have more choice in how they respond and gain more freedom in their choice.
- Learn the four keys to changing habits for good and how it all starts with mindfulness.
What You Learn
- Mindfulness of breathing and group process
- Mindfulness of thoughts
- Dyad and process
- Mindful eating experience
- Physical hunger versus emotional hunger
- Mindful movement (chair yoga)
- Mindfulness of craving
- Mindfulness of feelings (emotional regulation and breaking the chain)
- Loving-kindness and compassion
How You Learn
- In-class practice of concepts
- Guest presentation on co-occurring disorders