Mindfulness:
Is it Clinically Essential for Therapists to Meditate? (TH5)
Thursday, May 1, 2008
9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. (6 CE Hrs.), *CD Available
Is it possible to become mindful from attending lectures about mindfulness? The
inconvenient truth: to experience the integrating aspects of mindfulness as a
way of being, it is probably necessary to meditate. This workshop challenges
participants to experience how actually meditating can enhance their clinical
competency with mindfulness and lead to integration. While mindfulness theory
and re s e a rch will be covered, participants will get to practice a wide variety
of mindfulness meditations in an experiential re t reat format. From this first-hand
way of knowing, therapists can make an informed decision re g a rding the clinical
value of having their own regular mindfulness practice. (*CD of workshop available
for purchase.)
Jerome Front, MFT, is a leader of innovative retreats
and is in private practice in Studio City. He also teaches weekly mindfulness
meditation classes and has had his own mindfulness practice for 19 years. He
is yearround Adjunct Faculty in the Graduate School of Clinical Psychology
at Pepperdine University. In 2000, he created the first Graduate Course for
degree credit called “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.”
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