Understanding Mindfulness: A Classical View

Friday, April 1st, 2016
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
The Crestview Country Club
Agawam, MA

Andrew Olendzki, PhD
 

Mindfulness has had a growing impact on contemporary psychotherapy and is the focus of extensive scientific research, yet challenges remain in how to understand and define it. This workshop looks closely at mindfulness as treated in early Buddhist teachings, offers a model for understanding five stages of mental training, and dissects the anatomy of a mind moment as observed experientially, all in the context of how this knowledge can help the contemporary clinician.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

 
1)  List at least two ways that mindfulness can be misunderstood by psychologists, researchers, and by popular writers.
2)  Recite a detailed account of classical Buddhist mindfulness meditation instructions.
3)  Practice mindfulness meditation briefly following classical instructions.
4)  Describe the five-part model of mental training from the Abhidhamma.
5)  Describe a "mind moment" and its arising and passing phases.
6)  Utilize a deeper understanding of mindfulness to inform clinical work with clients. 
 
Andrew Olendzki, PhD, is a Buddhist scholar as well as the Insight Meditation Society’s first executive director, and helped to found and develop the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He has taught and written extensively on Buddhist psychology and its influence on psychotherapy and cognitive science, has taught at several New England colleges, and has authored Unlimiting Mind: the radically experiential psychology of Buddhism (Wisdom 2010).

Any questions? Please call 802-258-4359