Article archive / March 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 7. Source pages: 16.
The 4th Annual Mindfulness Day will be held this coming April in Baton Rouge. Presenters Thay Dao Quang, M.Ed., John W. Pickering, Ph.D., David T. Weibel, Ph.D., and W. Sumner Davis, M.S., will offer a workshop for mental health professionals Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 8 am to 5 pm. The workshop, “Integrating Mindfulness Practices into your Psychotherapy: A Day of Mindfulness for Mental Health Professionals,” will be held at the Tam Bao Meditation Hall, 975 Monterrey Blvd, in Baton Rouge.
The cost is $75 for the day-long workshop, which includes lunch. Sessions include Introduction to Meditation and Mindfulness, Mindfulness, Buddha and Psychotherapy, and Integrating Mindfulness Practices into Your Therapy: Some specifics. The training is available for continuing education for Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychologists, and Social Workers.
Throughout the day attendees will be able to participate in guided sitting meditation. Toward the end of the day, the workshop concludes with group discussions. Lunch experience will include Nobel Silence and Mindfulness Eating.
Organizers note: “Mindfulness,” a concept arising out of more than two millennia of Buddhist psychology, has become an increasingly popular concept in psychotherapy and counseling literature over the past two decades, as more and more mental health professionals have become aware of it and incorporated meditation and mindfulness approaches into their therapeutic repertoires. Research during this period has revealed mindfulness and meditation to be effective in addressing a variety of physical problems, from high blood pressure, to stroke and heart attack risk, to chronic pain management. Research has also shown such interventions to be effective in the treatment of a wide variety of mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse disorders, and borderline personality disorders. A number of evidence-based therapies now utilize these approaches as either primary or ancillary aspects of treatment.
This workshop will introduce attendees to the principles and concepts underlying the use of mindfulness and meditation in psychotherapy, and present concrete and specific ideas on how to use and integrate empirically supported mindfulness interventions into an established therapeutic practice.”
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