Penn Program for Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Meditation for Psychotherapists

Eight Monday Evenings: April 20 – June 8, 2009
CE credits available*

This program is designed for any counseling professional who would like develop a personal mindfulness practice to manage stress, support growth, and enhance clinical practice.

Meditation techniques and other mindfulness-based practices can energize and renew the human element of healing. In this program, these practices will be used to help participants develop a comprehensive mindfulness-based approach to healing and caring—a process designed to enhance patient care, communication, and professional satisfaction.

Participants will develop a personal mindfulness practice, review the principles of mindfulness-based stress management, and then explore the use of mindfulness in the practice of psychotherapy. All participants will be asked to commit to 30 minutes of mindfulness practice daily for the duration of the course.

In this course you will:

• Learn mindfulness-based exercises that stabilize and deepen awareness
• Explore the central role of mindfulness and awareness in psychotherapy
• Cultivate a personal mindfulness practice
• Practice mindfulness-based stress management
• Use mindfulness to improve communication and enhance clinical 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 Molly Layton, PhD

Molly Layton, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Erdenheim, Pa. As an essayist for the Psychotherapy Networker, she has written frequently about the uses of mindfulness in psychotherapy.

 

 

About Dan Gottlieb, PhD

Dan Gottlieb, PhD, is a practicing psychologist and family therapist in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area for over 35 years. He has hosted the popular radio program "Voices in the Family," since 1985, an award-winning mental health call-in radio show aired on WHYY 90.9 FM, Philadelphia's local public radio station. From 1993 until 2008, he wrote a highly regarded column for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled: "Inside Out," reflecting his perspective on the events in the world around us and the many ways we experience those events. He has also previously published a total of four books. His most recent, "Learning From the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving and Listening," describes some of the many lessons he's learned about what we share as humans.

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.

*This session is co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists (PSCP) and the PENN Program for Stress Management. The Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer Continuing Education (CE) for psychologists. PSCP maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This program provides 24.5 hours of CE credits for Psychologists and Social Work Board licensees.