Outline

Further Know Mindfulness: Know What You Teach and Teach What You Know

• How personal practice informs your teaching
• The four foundations of mindfulness
• Develop and deepen personal daily mindfulness practice
• How to use community support and learning

The Therapeutic Relationship: Use Mindfulness to Build Trust and Connection with Your Clients

• Improvement in clinical attention
• Affect regulation – therapist and client
• Empathetic connection with client
• Compassion fatigue/compassionate presence
• Being present in session to support change
• Build clients trust in themselves

Psychoeducation Techniques: Enhance Client Understanding and Motivation

• What Mindfulness is … and what it is not
• Mindfulness vocabulary
• Explain mindfulness through different modalities-visually, metaphorically, poetry
• Motivate clients with explanations of neuroplasticity and change
• Reacting vs responding – turn off the automatic pilot
• Empirical support for mindfulness, improved symptomology, and well-being
  • Medical/health
  • Education/learning
  • Behavior/psychological
  • Relational

Group Therapy vs. Individual Sessions: Create Effective Therapeutic Environments

• Types of mindfulness-based group programs
  • Group emotional resonance
  • Considerations on space and time
• Mindfulness directly applied in the one to one clinical session
• Personalize the practice – determine which format is best for your client
• Seize the opportunity of the individual session
• Understand situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness in session

Formal Mindfulness Practices: Answers to Your Logistical Questions

• Embodiment of mindfulness
• Offering options for posture, range of experience and types of practice that best support client
• Use of language that promotes clarity and understanding of mindfulness
• Form of leading the practice
• Leading inquiry-questions to support deepening client experience of mindfulness

Creative Opportunities for Mindfulness in Life: Informal Mindfulness Practices

• Mindful daily moments
• Brief practices for day to day activity
• Learn ways to creatively adapt everyday mindfulness practices for your client

Mindfulness in Session: Keys to Starting and Sustaining Change

• Applying the foundations of mindfulness
• Using reactivity/patterns to assist in sustainable change
• Identifying common barriers and techniques
• Teaching the “antidotes” to suffering

How to Integrate Mindfulness Into Your Treatment Plans For:

• Anxiety
  • Relax the arousal state – meditation vs. medication
  • Reduce anxious thoughts with focus on the body
  • 3-minute breathing practice
  • Mindful walking practice: how to get started
• Insomnia
  • Diaphragmatic breathing to improve sleep
  • Calm the mind to fight insomnia
  • Mindful practice with technology
• Depression
  • Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thought
  • Awareness practice – cope with limited energy
  • Nature and well-being
• Trauma
  • Grounding/orienting
  • Body awareness-somatic movement
  • RAIN practice
• Chronic Pain
  • The latest research on mindfulness and persistent pain
  • Awareness and acceptance of present experience
  • Pain related anxiety
• Eating Disorders
  • Mindful eating and self-control
  • Sense awareness
  • Types of hunger – eating awareness and skillful responding
• Addiction
  • Mindful awareness of triggers and relapse prevention
  • Urge surfing: mindfulness to cope with urges
  • Taking in the good – noticing the good events in life
• ADHD
  • Concentration and focusing practices
  • Mindful movement
  • STOP practices

Ongoing Mindfulness: Assessment, Growth and Support

• Assess how practices are working for the client
• Adapt, create, modify to grow the path of practice for your client’s unique needs
• Develop sustainable change with mindfulness

Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks

• Safeguards when teaching mindfulness
• Acuity and vulnerability of disorders
• Considerations and recommendations