The MBSR Home Study Course: An 8-Week Training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction - Softcover

Meleo-Meyer, Florence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1622037146 ISBN 13: 9781622037148

Publisher: Sounds True, 2016

Synopsis

The Official Home Training in MBSR from the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society

In 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center to integrate meditation into the medical mainstream. His approach became known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)―a powerful, effective way to reduce physical and mental suffering by cultivating the capacity for greater health, balance, ease, and peace of mind.

Discover a Scientifically Researched Practice for Learning, Growing, and Healing

The MBSR Home Study Course is a comprehensive immersion in the same well-respected method taught at the UMass Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Taught by two senior MBSR teachers, this course offers systematic training and tools to enhance your health and well-being through a deep, experiential understanding of the mind-body connection. In this eight-week program, you’ll learn to understand and moderate your reactivity to stressful situations, reduce the impact of long-term stress and trauma, cope more effectively with physical pain and discomfort, and increase your overall sense of vitality and enthusiasm for life.

Mindfulness is a way of learning to relate directly to whatever is happening in your life. This starts with cultivating present-moment attention in an open, nonjudgmental way. MBSR is a nonsectarian, scientifically researched approach that is in harmony with any faith-based tradition. The MBSR Home Study Course brings you a complete training in mindfulness meditation and its integration into the challenges and adventures of everyday life

HIGHLIGHTS
· Learn the same, well-respected method developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn―taught by longtime Center for Mindfulness teachers Dr. Saki Santorelli and Florence Meleo-Meyer
· Reduce stress at work or at home by learning a wide range of skills that increase resilience and heighten your capacity to effectively meet your life challenges
· Enhance well-being and manage symptoms associated with medical and psychological conditions like chronic pain, fatigue, insomnia, persistent headaches, anxiety, and panic
· Support your preventive care efforts
· Cultivate a sense of greater ease, equanimity, and connection to your inherent wholeness
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About this title

About the Author

Florence Meleo-Meyer
Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, is Director of Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training, a senior MBSR teacher and a member of the executive leadership team for the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

For more then three decades Florence has taught meditation and mindfulness to clinical populations and to professionals working in the fields of psychology, medicine, business, and education in the United States and internationally. A student of contemplative practices for over 35 years, she is a certified Siddha Meditation teacher as well as a senior Insight Dialogue teacher. She holds degrees in psychology and education and is a licensed family therapist.

Her dedication to enriching the lives of children and the people who work most closely with them has led her to develop Cool Minds™, a mindfulness-based educational program for adolescents, and The Aware Teacher™, an innovative program that supports the integration of mindfulness into the lives of teachers. Most recently, she wrote, coordinated, and is featured in the DVD Living Awake: Mindfulness Practices for Young Adults.

Florence brings deep commitment, compassion, and humor to her work. She is inspired to offer her service in alignment with the vision of the Center for Mindfulness―"An Awake and Compassionate World."

Saki Santorelli
Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA, is a professor of medicine, director of the internationally-acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic, and executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, he has worked with thousands of medical patients and has educated and helped mentor generations of practitioners and researchers of mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), engaging in more than 30,000 clinical hours of MBSR. In 2001, he founded Oasis Institute, a comprehensive professional education and training program leading to teacher certification in MBSR. In 2003, he founded and is chair of an annual scientific conference on mindfulness, entitled Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness into Medicine, Health Care and the Society. 2014 marks the 12th year of this annual, international meeting. In 2011, Saki established the annual John and Tussi Kluge Translational Research Symposium on Mindfulness. Saki teaches and presents internationally and is the author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1622037146
• ISBN 13: 9781622037148
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128