Two-Day Intensive
What: Practicing & Integrating Mindfulness – A Two-Day Intensive Workshop When: Two sessions: May 5, May 12. 9am – 5pm each day Where: Integrative Life Center, 1104 16th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212, Phone: 615 891-2226, www.integrativelifecenter.com Workshop Cost: $225. CEUs are available Description Over the past three decades, mindfulness-based interventions have spread rapidly through the fields of medicine, mental health and...
MBA Workshop at UMass Center for Mindfulness Conference
MBA Executive Director Chris McKenna and Research Director Sam Himelstein will be doing a half-day workshop on working with resistance in our work teaching mindfulness/contemplative practice to adolescents at the annual conference of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care & Society. We’ll be teaching the three hour session with our friend Cator Shachoy, the executive director of Youth Yoga Dharma. Full description...
Facilitation Skills & Curriculum Development Training
Do you work with at-risk youth in a school, probation, foster care or community-based context? Do you find yourself reading mindfulness curricula and wondering how you could adapt the material or deliver it to the youth you are working with? Are you already integrating mindfulness, council or other emotional awareness practices into your work with and wanting to develop your material and your facilitation skills? Unlike our previous...
MBA’s 10th Anniversary with Jack Kornfield
Tickets are now officially on-sale for our 10th anniversary event with Jack Kornfield. We’re taking over Nile Hall in beautiful Preservation Park in Downtown Oakland on Saturday, December 10. Program: Saturday, December 10, 11:30am-1pm (Doors at 11am) Location: Nile Hall, Preservation Park, 668 Thirteenth Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Free Parking: City Center West Garage. Entrance: Martin Luther King Way @ 12th Street Tickets to the...
MBA Executive Director Speaks at Mindfulness in Education Conference – October, 2011
On Oct 14-16, MBA joined education experts from across disciplines at Mindfulness in Education: A Foundation for Teaching and Learning, a conference bringing together an international faculty of experts in the mindfulness and youth field for a two-and-a-half day exploration into the role of mindfulness in teaching and learning. Scientific studies show that practicing mindfulness enhances students’ concentration, attention, executive...