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Community Events
The following events and organizations are presented by our extended community and may be of interest. These events are neither sponsored nor endorsed by MARC.
Upcoming Community Events:
True Refuge: Three Gateways of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Freedom
with Tara Brach, Insight LA, June 8, 2013
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Our suffering comes from identifying with the story and feelings of a separate, limited self. The path of true refuge awakens us through three archetypal gateways: Truth (of the present moment), Love and Awareness.
In this special daylong workshop, we will will explore mindfulness and heart practices through silent and guided meditations, short talks and time for sharing and questions.
We are delighted to welcome Tara Brach - author, lecturer, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Her latest book, True Refuge, will be available in 2013 from Bantam Books.
Date: Saturday, June 8 Time: 10am-4pm
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Mindfulness in Clinical Practice: Our Patients, Ourselves-- A Daylong CME Workshop
with Mick Krasner, MD, FACP. May 11, 2013
In response to the increasing pace and complexity of medical practice, physicians and other health professionals are experiencing unprecedented levels of job dissatisfaction and burnout, affecting their sense of well-being and the quality of care they provide. A powerful but under recognized approach to these challenges is to enhance the practitioners' capacity for mindfulness.
This workshop will be devoted to establishing an experiential understanding of mindfulness meditation, narrative medicine, and the application of appreciative inquiry in interpersonal dialogue. Participants will work together in large and small groups, with didactic elements built into the experiential exercises. The morning session will center on themes of 1) the Present Moment and Teamwork. Participants are encouraged to use clinical experience as the source material for the narrative development and appreciative dialogues.
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Date: May 11, 2013
Time: 9am-5pm
Venue: Medical Education and Telemedicine (MET) Building, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA
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Mindful Magazine
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Mindful, a new magazine published by leaders in the mindfulness movement across North America, through the Foundation for a Mindful Society, is dedicated to helping you live a more satisfying life through the practice of mindfulness, a likeminded goal that we share.
Subscribe ($19.95 for a year of the magazine) and Mindful will donate $10 to MARC. (You'll need to select MARC from the short list of Mindful partners for the donation to come to us.) The first issue is coming in FEBRUARY 2013.
The Mindfulness Revolution: Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditatiion Teachers on the Power of Mindfulness in Daily Life
(A Shambhala Sun Book)
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This is an anthology of the very best writing on mindfulness and its applications, compiled and edited by Barry Boyce of the Shambhala Sun magazine. MARC's Diana Winston and Dr. Susan Smalley have made contributions to the book, specifically in the chapter "Is Mindfulness For You?"
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New Dimensions Media: How Mindfulness can add to your well-being, an interview with Diana Winston (Ongoing)
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One thing that shows up in the research across the board is that people who practice mindfulness report being happier. What doesn't show up in the findings is that their lives automatically get better. They don't necessarily stop getting sick or stop having difficulties, or challenges, or losing their jobs. They lead normal lives, like all of us do. But, the quality of their mind and their ability to be happy in the face of it is different. What mindfulness does is to shift and change our attitude, and create a way of being in the world with more peace and balance instead of being at the mercy of these ups and downs of life.
Winston says, "Mindfulness can change your relationship to life from being stuck in it to having a little-bit of space around it. . . I like to use the definition of mindfulness as attending to the present moment and experiences with openness and curiosity." So, when we are in the midst of our lives, and we're lost in an experience that is painful or unpleasant, we can learn to have a little space and not be so caught by the problems. (hosted by Michael Toms)
The hour-long interivew is recorded and is accessible HERE
