Penn Program for Mindfulness

Learning From Mindfulness:
Mindfulness Meditation for Educators

Eight Tuesday Evenings: April 21 – June 9, 2009
ACT 48 credits available

Learn to use mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based techniques to deepen and enrich your practice of teaching and learning. This eight-week program will provide comprehensive training in a variety of effective mindfulness-based practices which can revitalize the practice of teaching.

Mindfulness-based stress management techniques will be adapted to help participants develop a comprehensive approach to personal stress management and for use in mindfulness-based education. Classes will include discussions, lectures, mindfulness meditation practice, and interactive experiential exercises. The program was designed to enhance teaching and learning as well as personal and professional satisfaction.

You will learn to:

• Bring mindfulness-based tools into the classroom
• Manage personal and professional stress
• Increase focus and productivity
• Cultivate coping and balance
• Develop a personal mindfulness meditation practice
• Attend a 2 - 1/2 hour class once a week for eight weeks.
• Be asked to practice specific mindfulness techniques that you learn in class at home 6 out of 7 days each week during the eight-week course. This will help you to develop a practice that fits into your lifestyle, and will also help you to learn how to use this practice in your professional work.
• Be provided with CDs that you can use to guide your at-home meditative practices. On average, you will be asked to spend about 40 minutes each day practicing the mindfulness techniques.
• In addition to the eight classes, you will attend one all-day session which takes place on a weekend which will help to reinforce your practice of the techniques that you will learn in class

About Michael J. Baime, MD

Michael J. Baime, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the founder and Director of the Penn Program for Stress Management. The program was founded in 1992, and has trained more than 5,000 people in mindfulness-based stress management. At Penn, Dr. Baime has developed and led numerous courses about mindfulness meditation and mind-body medicine. These courses include a class for medical and nursing students, "Mind-Body Medicine and Mindfulness: Theory and Practice"; a one-month full-time summer elective "Spirituality and Medicine" (offered jointly with the Department of Pastoral Care); an annual CME program, "Healing the Heart and Mind"; and several other courses offered through the Graduate School of Education, the Department of Psychology, and the School of Nursing. Dr. Baime graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1981. He is also currently involved in research on the relationship between meditation training and learning, on the cognitive neuroscience of meditation, and on the clinical applications of mindfulness training, including its efficacy as a treatment for ADHD in adults and for preventing weight regain after successful dieting.

About Irene McHenry, PhD

Irene McHenry, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education, an international network of Friends schools. She was the founding Head of Delaware Valley Friends School, a co-founder of Greenwood Friends School, and has taught at Friends School Haverford, William Penn Charter School, Fielding Graduate Institute and Lincoln University. She serves on the boards of the Council for American Private Education, Haverford College, and Friends Education Fund. Irene designs and leads professional development programs for faculty, trustees and administrators in schools across the country. She has been teaching mindfulness skills as a clinician and workshop leader for the past fourteen years and is the co-editor of the 2009 publication Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning.

Registration

To register for this class, please complete this registration form and send it back to us. For more information, call 215-615-2774 or email stress.management@uphs.upenn.edu to join our mailing list.