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NIH Mind Body Week Courses
Offered live at the NIH Mind Body Week Conference, Bethesda, MD September 8-11, 2009
Register for NIH Mind Body Week Courses
Please Note: These classes are offered at no charge. To register, please send an email with your name, and the names of the classes you are interested in attending, to: info@emindful.com.
Seating is limited to 100 participants in each course, so please register by emailing us as soon as possible. Continuing Education Credits are not available for these classes.
Gift of Presence
This 3-hour session emphasizes our potential for developing deeper, mindful self-awareness, self-compassion, and nurturance and offers skills and strategies for weaving an integral unity between your inner and outer work. This is done through integrating a blend of life-skills, principles, practices, and insights for living and working. This class' activities will be highly experiential and will include lots of reflection, dialogue and small group exercises. Intended outcomes include:
- Developing greater understanding of how to better care for ourselves and each other;
- Leaving feeling rejuvenated and hopeful/inspired/uplifted/encouraged, with a couple of concrete thoughts on where to go next.
- Gaining a sense of highly leveraged areas for each of us to focus on in developing our own capacity for self-care;
- Increasing our personal and collective mindfulness in ways that help us to be more fully present, and to think, listen, and communicate together in deeper, more productive and effective ways;
- Insights into how we can use ourselves therapeutically to care for others.
About the Instructors, Joel Levey, Ph.D. & Michelle Levey, MA: Joel & Michelle are founders of the International Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health at InnerWork Technologies, Inc., a Seattle-based firm dedicated to developing and renewing organizational cultures and communities in which extra-ordinary levels of inspired leadership, cooperation, synergy, collective intelligence, and change resilience can thrive. For more information go to WisdomAtWork.com.
Developing Mindfulness in Children & Teens: A Workshop for Parents and Professionals
Mindful Awareness (also known as mindfulness meditation) can be described as a moment-by-moment, self-directed, and largely introspective, process of actively attending to and observing one's own experiences in the present moment within an overall framework of kindness and compassion to self and others. This construct has been the recent investigation of neuroscientists, health care practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational researchers as a psychological state or trait that may directly improve health and well-being.
- This 3-hour class for parents and professionals will explore ways to incorporate mindful awareness practices into educational and community settings to improve children/teens well-being, (including cognitive functions of attention, emotional regulation, and pro-social orientation).
- Interwoven throughout the didactic portions of the workshop, adults will learn, and practice themselves, the mindful awareness practices that have been developed and used with children in the InnerKids program. These largely introspective practices support and encourage the New ABCs of Mindful Awareness: Attention, Balance & Compassion.
About the Instructor, Susan Kaiser Greenland JD: Susan, developed the InnerKids mindful awareness program for children and teens. She is a member of the clinical team for the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA's Mattel's Children's Hospital and Co-Investigator on a multi-year, multi-site study on the impact of mindfulness practice in education at UCLA's Semel Institute. Her book The Mindful Child will be published by Free-Press in 2009.
Mindful Eating: A Class for Health Care Professionals
Mindful eating is an important skill set for clients to use in improving their relationship with food. This 3-hour introductory class to Mindful Eating is meant to provide information and techniques you may use in your practice. Below is a list of topics covered in the course:
- What is Mindful Eating?
- Underlying principles of Mindful Eating
- Study on the effects of Mindful Eating on Binge Eating Disorder
- Working with hunger and fullness
- Working with emotions
About the Instructor, Ruth Q. Wolever, Ph.D.: Ruth is a clinical health psychologist and the Research Director of Duke Integrative Medicine. Specializing in behavior change, treatment of stress-related problems, and mind-body health, Ruth studies the integration of innovative Mind-Body-Spirit treatments into mainstream medicine.
The eMindful classes and programs offered on this website do not constitute professional medical advice and should not be used as a substitute for medical diagnosis, advice or services.
**Nursing CEUs are approved by the CA Board of Registered
Nursing
Provider No. 11646
Scottsdale Institute for Health &
Medicine
Authorized by CA Board of Behavioral Sciences (CABS)
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eMindful
***Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine is approved
by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
(NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Provider No.
450961-09
*Please see CME Info for information on our University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center CME sponsorship
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