Self-Discovery and Psychology

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Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy Cultivating Freedom and Resilience

For psychotherapists, human-service professionals, and others interested in personal development.

Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for more than 2,500 years and is a deceptively simple way of alleviating human suffering. Mental-health professionals are now discovering that mindfulness holds great promise for their personal development, as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships, and as a useful intervention for a variety of psychological difficulties. In this program, you learn

  • How to practice mindfulness inside and outside the clinical hour
  • Guidelines for tailoring mindfulness techniques to specific individuals and conditions
  • How to use mindfulness to augment cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and systemic treatment
  • A step-by-step mindfulness-based program for working with anxiety, chronic pain, and stress-related medical disorders
  • Ways to deal with the obstacles and challenges that arise when working with emotional difficulties in yourself and others.

Program at a Glance

Yoga Experience
None
Suitable For
Professionals
Program Theme
Psychology/Neuroscience
Schedule
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Presenter(s)

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, is a longtime student of mindfulness meditation and author of The Mindfulness Solution.

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