Center for Mindfulness - Practice as Science and the Science of Practice Daylong Retreat

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'Practice as Science and the Science of Practice' - All Day Retreat

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Retreat with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD & Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Thursday, April 9, 2015

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

This daylong retreat will be conducted using the laboratory of our own body-mind. Periods of guided practice that punctuate particular aspects of experience will be integrated with brief presentations and discussions of directly relevant research findings. In this way, our subjective, lived experience will be intimately linked to current scientific understandings of the underlying neurobiological processes.

Emphasis will be placed on pragmatic “take home” points such that participants will come away with an updated and enriched knowledge and ways to practically describe and explain basic scientific tenants of MBSR practices, grounded in their own experience. Together we will explore several areas including:

• Positive and negative reinforcement and their relationship to suffering
• The “wedge” of mindfulness and how it changes psychological processes
• Craving and how mindfulness decouples it from behavior
• The self, awareness and their relationships to the brain
• Loving kindness as a selfless practice (experientially and neurobiologically)

Learning Objectives

• Refine understanding of psychological processes through experiential insight
• Apply scientific concepts, grounded in experience, to personal practice and teaching