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What is eMindful anyway?
 The purpose of eMindful (www.emindful.com) is to provide online educational tools for developing personal healing and growth via video conferencing. Our
unique approach allows our clients and class participants to learn life
skills in a fully interactive, virtual classroom setting, taught by
live teachers in a caring and accepting way. Our classroom allows you to see, hear, and speak with the teacher and fellow class participants. The classroom software is included with all courses and is easy to download and use. And don't worry, live tech support is available should you need it.
For more information about our classes please visit:
http://www.emindful.com/our_courses.html or e-mail info@emindful.com. |
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eMindful now offers CEU and CME credits for our Mindful Eating courses for healthcare professionals
eMindful
has just added courses on Mindful Eating for nurses and other medical
professionals that offer 3 CEU's or 3 CME's depending on the course. These
3 hour programs, offered for 1 hour per week over 3 weeks, provide an
overview of the important aspects of mindful eating concepts. Some
examples of the interactive exercises used in the Mindful Eating
subscription-based classes are provided as well as ways that mindful
eating can be used to facilitate behavioral change. Pertinent case studies are also discussed. The course fee is $175.00. For more information please visit:
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eMindful is proud to introduce our new teachers and courses
Dr. Fred Luskin teaches how to Forgive for Good
 Frederic Luskin, Ph.D.
is the Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project and an
Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He
has completed 9 research projects on the training and measurement of
forgiveness therapy. Currently Dr. Luskin also serves as the
Co-Chair of the Garden of Forgiveness Project at Ground Zero in
Manhattan. Dr. Luskin's work has been featured in Time, U.S. News and
World Reports, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,
U.S.A. Today and the Wall Street Journal.
Fred teaches the Forgive for Good course based on his book of the same name. The Forgive for Good class covers:
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why skills-based forgiveness training improves your health
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how
learning to forgive your partner in a failed relationship can improve
your chance for happiness and success in a new relationship
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explains why forgiving is of benefit to you and has nothing to do with the other person
For more information on the Forgive for Good course:
http://www.emindful.com/course_descriptions/ForgiveforGood.html
For more information on Fred's class schedule:
http://www.emindful.com/schedules/ForgiveSchedule.html
For more information about Fred's research, please visit:
http://www.learningtoforgive.com/research.htm |
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Susan Kaiser Greenland to Offer Instruction on Teaching Mindfulness to Children.
 Susan Kaiser Greenland teaches "The New ABC's" - for adults who are interested in mindfulness work with children. Susan is co-founder of InnerKids (www.innerkids.org), through
which she has taught hundreds of programs to children ages pre-K
through middle school. Susan was awarded the "Above and Beyond" award
by Yogi Times in 2003 and was named a "Champion of Children" by First 5
LA in 2006. Susan's next "New ABC's" series runs four Sundays in April:
Teaching Children About:
- Wise Attention and Introspection
- Awareness of Our Environment
- That Wise Attention and Introspection Leads to an Understanding that Everything is Connected
These
four classes are offered starting April 8th from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. Pacific time (and 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern time) for $25 per
class.
For more information about Susan's online classes please see:
http://www.emindful.com/course_descriptions/MindfulKids.html
To register for Susan's online classes:
http://emindful.com/schedules/MindfulKidsSchedule.html |
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Michael Silverman, Ed.D. to Teach:
"Authenticity: Becoming the Person You Want to Be"
 Dr. Michael Silverman, a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will begin teaching Authenticity: Becoming the Person You Want to Be
beginning in late March 2007. Dr. Silverman, who has been teaching
courses in authenticity since 2000, offers, "The Authenticity Class
addresses the needs of people whose self-perceptions block their
actions to relate successfully with others. The
obstacles to genuineness have come from patterns of negative
self-belief, nervous expectation, powerlessness, embarrassment, and
disappointment. The result is a negative spin of comparison,
self-rejection, and pessimistic performance expectation."
The purpose of Authenticity: Becoming the Person You Want to Be
is to improve self-confidence, through self-acceptance and optimistic
performance expectations, to "re-invent" oneself as the person one
wants to be. The live class with Dr. Silverman is highly interactive
and encourages genuine introspection and sharing that leads to
positive, honest, and realistic interactions... as I really am.
More information can be found here:
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eMindful Welcomes Laura Friedland, CPCC, ORSC, RN, BSN wWho Will Show Us How to Celebrate Ourselves.
 Laura's Celebration of Self course teaches you how to transform your relationship... with yourself! Become who you really are, not who you think you should be. Decide
to live life to the fullest. Empower yourself to live and experience
life in a new and exciting way - with more assurance, aliveness, and
ease. This program provides the insights and tools needed to raise
self-awareness and to celebrate our true, magnificent selves.
Laura
is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute, an internationally
recognized coach training school, accredited by the International
Coaching Federation. She is a certified professional Co-Active Coach
with advanced training in relationships and organizational systems.She
also has 14 years of experience as a Professional Registered Nurse and
graduated from Thomas Jefferson University.
Some of the topics covered during this self exploration include:
- Experiencing life as if you already had all that you wanted.
- Becoming more aware of the choices and perspectives you have available to you in any moment.
- Looking closely and deeply into the truth of your being.
To learn more about Laura and her Celebration of Self courses please visit:
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About the eMindful Eating course
Have you ever eaten food...but not tasted it? Gone on diet after diet only to find none of them "work"? eMindful is now offering a supportive, ongoing class in Mindful Eating.
In the Mindful Eating class you will meet other people having the same struggles with food and weight. We offer a way to create a healthy relationship to food. We examine who is in control...you or the food. Wouldn't it be nice to stop fixating on food and weight and...relax?
Every course I see these days advertises it will tell you its "secrets". I'm going to tell you the eMindful Eating class secret right here: losing
weight permanently and maintaining your body's natural, healthy weight,
means creating some new habits and changing some old habits. A habit is something we do naturally; without thinking much about it. Of course it doesn't mean we have to do it mindlessly. Do you "choose" to brush your teeth every morning? Well, in a sense you do - you don't do it autonomically. But would you actually "choose" not to brush your teeth? Probably not. It's a habit.
I'm going to tell you another horrible, awful secret that will probably make you stop reading right here...changing habits doesn't happen overnight. In fact, weight loss doesn't happen overnight. And while you may lose weight on a diet, it won't stay off unless you stay on the diet. It does not matter what the diet, exercise machine, herbal remedy, pill or surgery promises you. I'm
sorry if I'm the first to tell you that, and if you still believe in
the tooth fairy, send me a tooth and I'll send you a quarter. J
Well now, if you're still reading, I have some good news. New habits can be created. It turns out your brain is still capable of creating new neural pathways; you just need to give it a chance! I
started using the practices used by mindful eaters a few years ago, and
with my new habits I make enjoyable and healthy choices 98% of the time. Occasionally, one of my old habits sneaks up on me. J But
here's the way my life has changed: each morning I begin the day by
choosing some I want to eat and eating as much of it as my body needs
(and, it turns out, as much as I want). As the day progresses, when I feel hungry, I eat...whatever I want. I don't weigh or measure. I don't obsess. In fact, food is not a central part of my life anymore. It doesn't consume me. There was a time, not too many years ago, that I wore a size 24. Now
I wear a comfortable size 12 (actually, depending on the brand, it
varies, but 12 is very common...and any time I can fit into clothing
that's a size 8...I automatically buy it...habits...) and I never diet. So, I'm not "Twiggy", but I'm no longer obese. Oh, by the way, I'm almost 5'7". And I'm perfectly happy with the way I look...in fact, if I stop to think about it, I'm downright proud.
Changing an old habit is probably the hardest thing to do. Donald
Altman told a story of a man he knew who was told by his doctor he had
to change what he ate or he was in grave danger of developing
Type II Diabetes. Donald asked him what he was going to do. "Change doctors, of course."
The eMindful Eating subscription offers a step-by-step guide to changing your relationship with food. It's taught by people who've "been there, done that" and who care about your struggle. Each week offers new concepts, and activities to support those concepts. Eating mindfully can be fun! And we encourage you to notice your feelings and explore what it is you want in life, that you're not getting in food.
And, as my friend, Abbe Breiter says, "I hope you have a mindfully delicious day!" | |
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