Overview
- Places MBIs in cultural and historical context to clarify integration of Eastern and Western traditions
- Posits a relational understanding of mindfulness practices that supports moment-by-moment work with groups or individuals Describes in detail the four essential skill sets for mindfulness practice
- Includes sample scripts for a wide range of mindfulness practices and an extensive resource section
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Honing the Skills of MBI Teachers
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Teaching MBI Curricula Everywhere: Global Cultural Situations
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Teaching MBI Curricula to Everyone: Special Populations
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About this book
This master-class-in-a-book is designed to guide teachers of mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) in continuing to develop more competence while raising global standards of practice and pedagogy. Starting with the central yet elusive concept of stewardship, it then expands upon the core components of MBI pedagogy. A series of reflective essays by MBI teachers from around the world foregrounds differences and challenges in meeting participants “where they are.” Such reflections are both inspiring and thought-provoking for teachers —wherever they are. The book also provides practical guidance and tools for adjusting teaching style and content for special populations, from chronic pain patients to trauma survivors, from health care professionals to clergy, and including many others. Detailed scripts and practices, ready to adopt and adapt, offer opportunities to explore new directions in the classroom, and to continue the life-long development of the teacher.
Included in the coverage:
- Deepening teachers’ skills of guidance of meditation practices
- Insights into the essential practice of inquiry and dialogue with participants New practices that allow participants to explore mindfulness together in a spoken encounter
- How to keep up with, review, and make clear to participants the range of scientific evidence supporting the MBIs
The breadth of practical insights and hands-on strategies makes Resources for Teaching Mindfulness a unique developmental asset for a wide range of practitioners around the world. Among those who will benefit are physicians and other medical practitioners, health and clinical psychologists, marriage and family therapists, nurses, clinical social workers, physical and occupational therapists, health educators, and organizational development specialists.
Reviews
“This is a resource book. Specifically, it is a reference for mindfulness teachers who are working with different nationalities and other special populations and issues. Each chapter would likely be of great interest to the Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) teacher who is facing the problem it addresses.” (Roger Thomson, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (33), August, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Diane Reibel, PhD, co-founded the Stress Reduction Program at Thomas Jefferson University in 1996. She has studied over the years many different traditions with teachers such as Jack Cornfield, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tenzin Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Rabbi David Cooper.
Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, is a worldwide leader in mind-body and complementary/alternative medicine. He has had a distinguished career as a researcher and physician executive at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC, and the College of Physicians in Philadelphia PA. He is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics, and pharmacology, at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and of Medicine and Physical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has published over 30 medical and trade books, and founded and edited the first scientific journal, and the first textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary & Integrative Medicine, now going into a 5th edition (2013) and continuously in print since 1995.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resources for Teaching Mindfulness
Book Subtitle: An International Handbook
Editors: Donald McCown, Diane Reibel, Marc S. Micozzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30100-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30098-6Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80724-9Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30100-6Published: 12 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 481
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Social Work