A RESIDENTIAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING RETREAT
JUNE 12 – 19, 2009
Conducted by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph. D. & Saki Santorelli Ed. D.
from the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, U.S.A.
at Benediktushof in Holzkirchen (Germany)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic, former executive director of the Center for Mindfulness and professor of medicine, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School. Author of "Coming to our senses", "Full Catastrophe Living: using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain and illness" and "Mindfulness meditation in everyday life".
Saki Santorelli
Executive director of the Center for Mindfulness, director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and assistant. professor of medicine, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School.
Author of "Heal thyself: lessons on mindfulness in medicine".
Jon Kabat-Zinn founded and Saki Santorelli is the director of the internationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. For more than 20 years the clinic has treated over 12,000 medical patients, referred to this 8-week group-based outpatient programme with a range of conditions including heart disease, cancer, AIDS, chronic pain, stress-related gastrointestinal problems, headaches, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, anxiety and panic. The primary work of the clinic is intensive training in mindfulness meditation and its applications to stress, pain, and illness and to the challenges/adventures of everyday life. Research has shown that most participants in the Stress Reduction Clinic programme experience long-lasting improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms, as well as major positive changes in health attitudes and behaviours and in their perception of self and self in relationship to others and the world. Research in the UK and Canada has also shown mindfulness training to have a significant effect in reducing depressive relapse for those with three or more previous episodes of major depressive disorder.
This retreat programme is an opportunity for health and other care professionals in Germany and Europe to train intensively in mindfulness meditation as it is taught in the Stress Reduction Clinic in the form of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). This unique training approach has had a profound effect on the work of thousands of professionals caring for physical and mental health, including physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, nurses and hospital administrators. Drs Kabat-Zinn and Santorelli view mindfulness as the potential foundation for a new, highly cost-effective model of comprehensive health care in clinical medicine, medical education and health promotion, among other areas of care.
This event is open to health and other professionals who come prepared for the intensive nature of the workshop and who understand the primary necessity of embodying mindfulness meditation practice in ones own life before attempting to teach it to others. The retreat includes both intensive training in mindfulness meditation and a range of issues about its practical applications in health and social care.
There is no previous experience in meditation practice necessary to attend this retreat. It is the depth of ones personal commitment to learning and growing using this approach that is most important: integrating mindfulness into both ones personal and ones professional life comes out of that commitment and the imagination and effort it inspires. Participants for whom mindfulness meditation is a novel experience and who do not already have a strong daily personal meditation practice should not have the expectation of immediately returning home to set up Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses after attending this retreat, since the cardinal principle in doing this work is that it must come out of ones own extensive personal experience with the meditation practice. While information on creating MBSR courses in different settings is touched on, it is not a major focus of the retreat, and attendance at this retreat does not constitute authorization by Drs Kabat-Zinn and Santorelli to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
As a community of professionals caring for people´s health and well-being, we will practice mindfulness together intensively. Specific themes and areas of focus include:
• the seamless cultivation of mindfulness throughout the retreat, through both formal and informal practices, both in silence and in conversation and dialogue
• the details of instructing and guiding others in the formal and informal methods of mindfulness meditation in various settings
• mindful approaches to the experience and expression of grief, pain, and anxiety within ourselves and when working with others
• review of research supporting the clinical value of mindfulness based stress reduction
• review of the essential components of a viable programme
• teacher readiness and competency
• assessment and screening protocols
• specific programme structure and content
• how to work with personal and professional stress
• the necessity for the teaching to come out of ones own personal mindfulness practice to be of use to others
• small group work will be included.
The whole training will be held in English.
Beginning: Friday, June 12th, 2009, 6.30 p.m., arrival after 3 p.m.
End: Friday, June 19th, 2009, around midday
Accomodation
Both, accomodation (in single-, double- as well as shared rooms) and meals are offered at Benediktushof. The corresponding costs will be charged additionally to the workshop fee and have to be paid at your arrival at Benediktushof. (The accomodation with meals costs between 33 Euro and 61 Euro, incl. VAT)
For further information please contact the Benediktushof directly:
Benediktushof
Klosterstr. 10
97292 Holzkirchen/Unterfranken
www.benediktushof-holzkirchen.de
e-Mail: elsbeth@benediktushof-holzkirchen.de
Telefon: +49 (0) 9369 / 9838-0
Telefax: +49 (0) 9369 / 9838-38
Workshop Fee
890 Euro before November 30th 2008,
940 Euro up to March 31st 2009 and
990 Euro after March 31st 2009.
(prices excl. accommodation and meals)
Registration
Deadline of registration is Mai 1st, 2009.
As there is a limited number of places and from experience a big request, we strongly recommend an early booking. With cancellation up to March 1st, 2009 there will be charged a cancellation fee of 100 Euro. With cancellation from March 2nd – Mai 1st, 2009 a cancellation fee of 250 Euro, except you find another person who takes over your place. With cancellation after Mai 1st, 2009, the full workshop fee is due, except another person will sign up.
The participants will take full responsibility for themselves during the seminar.
The Workshop leader as well as the organizer are absolved from any liability claim.
In case you would like to participate in this retreat
Please switch to our german-language Webform and proceed by clicking the "In den Warenkorb legen"-button. Please follow the german language checkout. You will then get an Email, containing the bill, mentioning the amount due and our account informations. Within Europe you should face no problems by transfering the money by using our IBAN and BIC-codes mentioned on the Billing-Email.
For further requests you might contact Mr. Thomas Maier at:
Arbor Seminare gGmbH
Zechenweg 4, D-79111 Freiburg
phone ++49.(0)761.89 62 91 06, fax ++49.(0)761.89 62 91 07
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