Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine:
A 7-Day Residential Training/Retreat

This training/retreat is an opportunity to directly experience mindfulness and MBSR with Drs. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, to learn to practice mindfulness meditation as it is taught in the Stress Reduction Clinic, and to explore the practical application and integration of MBSR in health care and other settings. The program is oriented toward health care professionals, including physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists, social workers, therapists, hospital administrators and educators. It is intensive and participatory, and emphasizes the primary necessity of embodying mindfulness meditation practice in one’s own life before attempting to teach it to others. While information on creating MBSR clinics is touched on, it is not a major focus of the retreat.

This training activity is offered for 59 CE/CME credit hours (UNA:70.8).

Learning Objectives

• Practice mindfulness meditation via the seamless cultivation of mindfulness throughout the retreat,through both formal and informal practices, in silence and in conversation and dialogue,

• Describe the theoretical, philosophical, pedagogical and scientific underpinnings of MBSR,

• Integrate mindful approaches to the experience and expression of stress, pain, grief, and anxiety within ourselves and when working with others,

• Explore instructing and guiding others in the formal and informal methods of mindfulness meditation in various settings,

• Review research supporting the clinical value of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,

• Examine the essential components of a viable program, including specific program structure and content, assessment, and screening of program participants, as well as teacher competency, and

• Explore the ethical and moral principles and the domains of nonharming, compassion, and wisdom that underlie mindfulness practice and MBSR.

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