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"From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state
every moment a special moment."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
every moment a special moment."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness training opportunities:
Mindfulness has its origins in ancient meditation practices. The principles of mindfulness are fundamental to many traditional meditative practices and are non-sectarian in nature. In 1979 Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, compiled ancient teachings to develop a stress-reduction program designed to help people relieve suffering. Since its inception, thousands of people have completed the eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program and learned how to use their innate resources and abilities to respond more effectively to stress, pain, and illness. This program has been successfully implemented in hundreds of hospitals, clinics, health centers and other settings around the world helping people with conditions as diverse as chronic pain, heart disease, anxiety, psoriasis, sleep problems and depression.
In the 1990's Mark Williams, John Teasdale and Zindel Segal adapted the MBSR program to help people suffering from depression. They combined some techniques of cognitive therapy with mindfulness meditative practices and called it Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Relapse Prevention (MBCT). MBCT is clinically approved in the UK by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a "treatment of choice" for recurrent depression.
Micki Fine, M.Ed., L.P.C. has personally practiced mindfulness mediation since 1988 and providing mindfulness training since 1994. She has been in psychotherapy practice since 1990. For more about Micki and her teaching affiliations…
For more information on the benefits of mindfulness training, including links to research and recommended reading, follow these links.
In the 1990's Mark Williams, John Teasdale and Zindel Segal adapted the MBSR program to help people suffering from depression. They combined some techniques of cognitive therapy with mindfulness meditative practices and called it Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Relapse Prevention (MBCT). MBCT is clinically approved in the UK by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a "treatment of choice" for recurrent depression.
Micki Fine, M.Ed., L.P.C. has personally practiced mindfulness mediation since 1988 and providing mindfulness training since 1994. She has been in psychotherapy practice since 1990. For more about Micki and her teaching affiliations…
For more information on the benefits of mindfulness training, including links to research and recommended reading, follow these links.