DEEPENING PRESENCE
Mindfulness Meditation for Health Care Professionals & Caregivers
Bill Morgan, PsyD & Susan Morgan, CNS
Sundays, February-August, 2014
Limit: 15 participants
Please register here –
http://meditationandpsychotherapy.org/sites/default/files/TPG, 2014
Registration Form_0.doc
As interest in mindfulness grows in all aspects of mental and medical health
care, more and more clinicians aspire to practice meditation regularly in
their daily lives. However, our best intentions often yield to the demands of
our fast-paced lives. One of the best ways to nurture a personal mindfulness
practice and experience its many benefits is to practice with others.
Guidance and support from seasoned practitioners can be helpful as well.
The instructors of this program have recently ended a multi-year meditation
retreat at the Forest Refuge in Barre, MA and are looking forward to
practicing with colleagues and sharing what they have learned. The meetings
will be held in a lovely meditation space in the basement of St John’s Chapel
on Brattle St in Cambridge.
The goal of this program is to deepen presence—warm, connected, mindful
awareness—in one’s personal and professional lives. Participants will be
introduced to a range of mindfulness techniques that can be integrated into
personal meditation practice or applied at the workplace. A core text in
Buddhist psychology, the Satipatthana Sutta, will be used as a guide to
explore the four foundations of mindfulness.
The program consists of six 3-hour practice sessions, interspersed over six
months. These sessions will include a brief didactic presentation, meditation
practice, and discussion. There will also be two day-long retreats and an
evening of informal sharing. Participants will be invited to meet twice
during the course with one of the teachers for private conversations about
their meditation challenges and aspirations.
Please plan to attend all nine meetings when you register for this program.
We hope to create a sangha together—an engaged community of likeminded practitioners—that will support your own aspirations and those of
others. Participants will also be encouraged to practice meditation for 30-45
minutes per day, and to keep a practice journal.
20 CE credits are available to psychologists, nurses, social workers and
licensed mental health counselors. To receive CE credits for this program,
most participants need to attend 80% of the sessions.
Cost: $600
Participants will be able to:
 Practice key strategies for maintaining a daily meditation practice.
 Utilize mindfulness, concentration and compassion practices to
deepen therapeutic presence.
 Identify the four foundations of mindfulness and their relevance for
alleviating mental suffering.
 Monitor their own practice, identifying wholesome and unwholesome
habits of mind during meditation and in daily life.
 Apply strategies for supporting wholesome mind states and managing
unwholesome ones.
Please register here –
http://meditationandpsychotherapy.org/sites/default/files/TPG, 2014
Registration Form_0.doc
Dates & Times:
2/9: 9-12
3/2: 9-12
3/16: 9-5 Day Long Retreat
4/6: 9-12
5/4: 6:00-9:00 pm Salon evening
6/8: 9-12
7/13: 9-12
8/3: 9-5 Day Long Retreat
8/24: 9-12
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
This program is sponsored by the Institute for Meditation and
Psychotherapy: www.meditationandpsychotherapy.org
Psychologists: The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is approved
by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education
for psychologists. The Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy maintains
responsibility for the program and its content. This course offers 20 hours of
credit.
Social Workers: Application for social work continuing education credits
has been submitted. Please contact us at stmorgan11@gmail.com for the
status of social work CE accreditation.
Nurses: This program carries 20 Contact Hours and meets the
specifications of the MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF REGISTRATION
OF NURSING (244 CMR).
Licensed Mental Health Counselors: The Institute for Meditation and
Psychotherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider
(ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet
NBCC requirements. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy solely
is responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved for 20
contact hours, Provider #6048 and is applicable for Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Counseling/Allied Mental Health and PDP accreditation.
Bibliography
Aggs Bambling 2010 Teaching mindfulness to psychotherapists in clinical
practice The Mindful Therapy Programme.pdf
Bruce, Manber (2010). Psychotherapist Mindfulness and the Psychotherapy
Process.pdf
McCollum & Gehart (2010). Using Mindfulness Meditation to Teach
Beginning Therapists Therapeutic Presence- A Qualitative Study.pdf
Goldstein, J. (2013). Mindfulness: A practical guide to awakening. Boulder:
Sounds True.
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Bill Morgan, PsyD and Susan Morgan, CNS are longstanding meditation
practitioners and psychotherapists in the Boston area. They have co-led
meditation retreats for mental health professionals for 15 years. Bill and
Susan are founding members of the Institute for Meditation and
Psychotherapy and contributors to the professional text, Mindfulness and
Psychotherapy. They recently completed a 4-year meditation retreat at the
Forest Refuge in Barre, MA.
Please register here http://meditationandpsychotherapy.org/sites/default/files/TPG, 2014
Registration Form_0.doc