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Medical School - Worcester Mindfulness Mindfulness has been described as “The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment to moment.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2003 A growing body of research supports the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions for mental health conditions such as, depression, anxiety, and addictions, as well as problems such as stress and chronic pain. Mindfulness skills allow people to

Residents to deploy mindfulness during hospital rounds to improve focus on patient Emily Chen and Emily Levoy awarded Back to Bedside grant from American Council of Graduate Medical Education The American Council of Graduate Medical Education has awarded a Back to Bedside grant to UMass Chan Medical School alumni and internal medicine/pediatrics residents Emily Chen, MD, SOM ’14, and Emily Levoy, MD, SOM ’16. The Back to Bedside program supports resident- and fellow-led projects that affect the way

General Mindfulness Training Programs & Related Resources UMass Chan Medical School Center for Mindfulness Mission: explore, understand, articulate and further mindfulness in the lives of individuals, organizations and communities through clinical care, rigorous scientific research, professional training, and informed public discourse. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction:  http://www.umassmemorialhealthcare.org/umass-memorial-center-mindfulness UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Psychiatry Mindfulness

Weekly Mindfulness Monday Mindfulness - Meets each Monday 12:10 – 12:25 (join from your desk!)   15-minute Weekly Mindfulness Sessions led by UMASS Center for Mindfulness Teachers. The Monday mindfulness sessions will be led by deeply experienced and highly trained Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teachers and pioneers of the MBSR program that started here at UMASS in 1979. In the sessions, you will be provided with instruction and opportunities for: reflection, mindfulness practice, dialogue

Mindfulness Events Recharge and Re-center: Noontime Mindfulness Practice at University Campus – Daily Self-Guided and Weekly Guided Practice 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Need a break during the day to recharge, re-center or refocus? Meeting Room A, H1-777 has been reserved for daily mindfulness meditation practice. Tools and instructions will be available for 10 minute self-guided sessions starting at 12:05 pm and then again at 12:20 pm. Volunteer facilitators will continue to provide guided practice on Wednesdays

Mindfulness Research Research Literature Goyal, M., Singh, S., Sibinga, E. M., Gould, N. F., Rowland-Seymour, A., Sharma, R., ... & Haythornthwaite, J. A. (2014). Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA internal medicine, 174(3), 357-368. http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1809754 Kahn MW. On taking notice – Learning mindfulness from (Boston) Brahmins. The New England journal of medicine. 2015;372(10):901-3. DOI:

Monday Mindfulness Monday Mindfulness is a program that is part of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which has been implemented at UMASS since 1979, that provides instruction and opportunities for: reflection, mindfulness practice, dialogue, conceptual and experiential learning. Monday Mindfulness is held every Monday from 12:10-12:30 PM and you can even join from your desk. To learn more, click here. Monday Mindfulness is a program that is part of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

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Mindfulness Studies A randomized controlled pilot trial of classroom-basedmindfulness meditation compared to an active control condition in sixth-grade children. Britton WB1, Lepp NE2, Niles HF3, Rocha T4, Fisher NE5, Gold JS6. Abstract The current study is a pilot trial to examine the effects of a nonelective, classroom-based, teacher-implemented, mindfulness meditation intervention on standard clinical measures of mental health and affect in middle school children. A total of 101 healthy sixth-grade