WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES | THE PRESENTERS | LOCATION

A One-Day Workshop in Oakland, California
October 16th (9:30 am-5pm).

Workshop Description

This Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) one-day workshop is for therapists and all health professionals working with people living with anxiety, depression, stress, pain, or illness. You will learn the basics of MBSR and how to apply these skills for yourself as well as with your clients and patients.

Mindfulness Meditation is a 2,500-year-old practice that has been adapted for use in modern medicine and psychotherapy by the seminal work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Through numerous research studies on his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction model, mindfulness skills have been consistently documented as profoundly beneficial for the treatment and prevention of stress-related illnesses, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, among other conditions. It is even correlated with a stronger and healthier brain.

Mindfulness Meditation is a way to quiet and calm the mind by paying nonjudgmental attention to your moment-to-moment experience. It helps restore and maintain a sense of personal balance and develop the skills to avoid emotional and physical depletion. This is important not only for persons who are facing stress-related conditions, but also for persons who want to avoid physical or professional burnout.

We need to care for ourselves as we attend to the needs of our clients and patients. In fact, learning to balance the emotional demands of the healing relationship with other personal and professional pressures is central to the healer's art and vital to professional health and longevity.

The workshop will offer conceptual, experiential, and practical training in MBSR. Exercises will all have the objective of showing how MBSR works with stress, pain and illness.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Learn the powerful influence of mindfulness training on mind/body.

Learn how to cultivate greater presence and guide your patients to work more effectively with stress-related conditions.

Help clients change old habitual patterns of experiential avoidance while developing an openness and capacity to approach emotional difficulty.

Understand how to shift your work with clients from a focus on pathology to a focus on creating resonance, attunement and heartfelt responses to attachment needs.

Learn to feel more alive and reduce stress in your professional and personal life.

Support yourself and clients in cultivating well-being through mindfulness and resonance.

Workshop Location
The workshop will be held in a comfortable new conference room at New Harbinger Publications, 5720 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609.

Workshop Schedule
Saturday
October 16, 2010
9:30 am - 5 pm

About the Presenters

Bob Stahl, Ph.D., founded and directs mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in three medical centers in the San Francisco Bay area.  A long-time mindfulness practitioner, Bob lived in a Buddhist monastery for 81/2 years and has completed MBSR teacher certification at University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  Dr. Stahl also serves as an Adjunct Senior Teacher for Oasis – the institute for mindfulness-based professional education and innovation of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Bob is a co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and cofounder of the Mindfulness Center for Psychotherapy and Psychiatry. He teaches MBSR and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in West Los Angeles. He is co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbookand author of the audio CD series Mindful Solutions, which deals with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, adult ADHD, and success at work. He is also author of popular mindfulness and psychotherapy blogs on Psychcentral.com, Mentalhelp.net, and Huffingtonpost.com, and conducts workshops, radio interviews, and lectures on the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness.

Instructional Level and CEU Information
This course has been approved for 6.5 CEUs by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider No.: PCE288) and by the American Psychological Association and California Board of Psychology (Provider No.: CEN034).

Who Should Attend
Ph.D./Psy.D. Psychologists, MFCC, LCSW, LEP, MD, RN, MFT, and psychology students

WORKSHOP FEES:
Students $100.00
Professionals $150.00
(Early Registration by October 2, 2010) $125.00
Note: If you require CEU credit, please add $10 to your registration.

TO REGISTER:
Please send a check to:

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.
827 Cedar St, Suite C
Santa Monica CA 90405

Make checks payable to: Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS:
You will receive an email confirmation of your registration.

For additional information regarding the workshop or registration, please email Bob Stahl at Bob@mindfulnessprograms.com or Elisha Goldstein at Elisha@drsgoldstein.com

Your workshop fees include:
- Handouts
- Tea and coffee service on Saturday
- 30% discount on A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook at the workshop venue.

LODGING INFO:
The following hotels have been suggested as the two closest business-grade accommodations. We have no connection with these hotels and cannot guarantee the quality.

• Woodfin Suites Hotel
  5800 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, CA ph: (510) 601-5880
• Courtyard by Marriott
  5555 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, CA ph: (800) 321-2211