A workshop for health professionals With Timothea Goddard Cultivating equanimity through mindfulness 26th June, 2011 in Burnie, Tasmania

Getting upset about things is natural! And equanimity is the capacity to not react to our reactions, and to not take things so personally. Equanimity relies on ordinary developmental and constitutional capacities for emotional regulation, and it can be cultivated and developed through mindfulness training and is especially powerful when informed by Buddhist psychology. The path of cultivating equanimity can reduce both immediate and more chronic suffering.

Difficulties and challenges are perennial in life. And in our work as health professionals, we sometimes encounter profoundly challenging suffering in our patients/clients. It is not always possible or even helpful to try and shield ourselves from being touched and moved by these relationships. So how can we manage our own reactivity in the face of these daily challenges so that our own stability of mind and well-being are not eroded?
Drawing on her developmental psychotherapy training, meditation practice, MiCBT and MBSR, Tim will explore how we can assist clients (and ourselves) towards skillful emotional regulation (the basis of equanimity) through mindfulness training. And how - drawing on our values and view - we can refine and extend this capacity so that it touches and transforms our life even more deeply.

Specifically we will explore:

• The evolutionary basis of reactivity Specific ways in which we can cultivate equanimity through:
  1. what we focus our attention on,
  2. how we focus our attention on our experience and,
  3. the view which we bring to our experience
• the role of concentration and insight practices
• practical applications and clinical examples

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		Facilitator: Timothea Goddard Timothea has trained in MBSR with the Centre for Mindfulness (CFM), UMass, USA and is accredited by the CFM. Since 2007, she has been offering MBSR training and supervision for health professionals. Timothea has worked in private practice for 20 years as a psychotherapist, educator and workplace trainer, having trained in humanistic, psychodynamic and body-based psychotherapy as well as MBCT and MiCBT. Timothea also works with organizations to design and implement coaching and mindfulness based programs for stress development, leadership and facilitation. She is involved in ongoing research projects. She is the Director of Openground - an Australia-wide network of clinicians and teachers offering MBSR and related programs. She is a long time student of yoga, Aikido and meditation and practices in the insight tradition.

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26th June, 2011in Burnie, Tasmania
9.30 - 5pm
$185 inc GST
Lunch, morning and afternoon teas,
and 4 practice CDs provided.
Venue: Rural Clinical School, NW Hospital Site, Brickport Road, Burnie.

Click here to download PDF info on the workshop.

Please contact the co-ordinator, Lewti, to discuss a discounted place if your circumstances require it: info@openground.com.au

PAYMENT
-	By EFT via internet banking (Account details below) Please record your surname in the reference field. Account details: Account Name: Openground Bank: ANZ BSB: 012-241 Account No: 4990-00818
-	By cheque or money order Please make cheques/money orders payable to "Openground". Post to: Openground 2/140 Elm St, Northcote VIC 3070
REGISTRATION
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Refund policy
	Refunds will be given up to one week before each workshop. Workshop places are transferable to another person.