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Day 1

Day 2

Before our workshop begins, you will access 2.0 hours of lecture content on the unique neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based pain relief, the biological substrates it’s proposed to act on (immune and inflammation systems) and how it may uniquely buffer against future-oriented, catastrophic thinking resulting in an increased experience of well-being.

9:00 - 11:30 Mindfulness Experience -Distributing the Workload: Part 1 - Multiple Planes & Joints Somatic Module: Present Moment Pacing

“You may not know, but you can notice.” - Ruthy Alon

11:30 - 12:00 Discussion and Review of Experiential Learning

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30. Mindfulness Experience - Distributing the Workload: Part 2 - Weightbearing Somatic Module: Non-reactive Awareness of Arising Sensory Events

“Until we know what we do, we have no choice to do otherwise.” - Moshe Feldenkrias

3:30 - 3:45. Break

3:45 - 5:45 Mindfulness Experience - Distributing the Workload: Part 3 - Affects in Biomechanics. Somatic Module: The Creative Pause Contributing to More Efficient Learning

“Between the stimulus and the response is a pause, and the power is in the pause.” - Victor Frankle

5:45 - 6:00 Student reflection and questions and clinical application

7:00 - 8:30 Mindful Experience - Integrating Distributing the Workload Part 1-3 in your nervous system.

Day 3

9:00 - 11:30 Mindfulness Experience - Skill Building Part I Somatic Module: Our sense of self in the beginning

“We are all perfectly adapted to a world in which we no longer live.” L. Gresham

11:30 - 12:00 Discussion and Review of Experiential Learning

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30. Mindfulness Experience - Skill Building Part 2 Somatic Module: Noticing and Nurturing

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life & you will call if fate.” Carl Jung

3:30 - 3:45. Break

3:45 - 5:30. Mindfulness Experience - Skill Building Part 3 Somatic Module: Building Noticing and Nurturing

“Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.” - Anne Lamott

5:30 - 6:00 Student reflection and questions and clinical application

7:00 - 8:30. Mindfulness Experience - Integrating Skill Building 1-3 in your nervous system.

Day 4

9:00 - 11:00. Mindfulness Experience - Skill Building Part 5 Somatic Module: Investing in the “third way”.

“Every experience you construct is an investment, so invest wisely. Cultivate the experience you want to construct again in the future.” — Lisa Barrett, PhD.

11:00 - 11:15: Break

11:15 - 12:00 Mindfulness Experience - Skill Building Part 6 Somatic Module: Taking risks in safety.

“You are the sky. Everything else is just weather”.  — Pima Chodran

12:00 - 12:30 Student reflection, questions and clinical application. Test.