Friday, November 5, 2010 – Saturday, November 6, 2010. 9am - 5pm; Stamford, CT  

Presenters: Patton Hyman and Barbara Heffernan

This workshop will emphasize incorporating mindfulness meditation techniques into action through contemplative exercises in three main areas: developing non-judgmenal awareness of our thoughts and feelings as we discuss specific cases; widening our compassion for ourselves and our clients; and increasing our ability to bring mindfulness to our work.  Objectives include:

a. Experience a variety of mindfulness meditation techniques that can be brought into everyday life and into practice as a psychotherapist.

b. Understand and experience how mindfulness meditation promotes active listening, the ability to stay in the "here-and-now" and other techniques at the core of a variety of psychotherapy theories;

c. Experience contemplative exercises applying mindfulness to case studies and issues of counter-transference;

d. Review recent research on how mindfulness and meditation produce positive physical, psychological and neurobiological changes

e. Identify elements of mindfulness already present in many psychotherapy approaches and understand how using mindfulness can promote the effectiveness of these approaches. 

For further information or to register, please visit the Tail of the Tiger website at http://www.tailofthetiger.org/program.php?src=8&id=4380 or http://www.karmecholing.org/registration.php?src=1&program_id=4380&action=view-program-details/.