Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS

REDUCTION

“Meditation is not evasion; it is a

serene encounter with reality.”

Mindfulness began as a

Buddhist Tradition, but

its methodology is

secular. People of all

religions and of no

religion can benefit.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Founded The Stress Reduction

Program in 1979

Founded The Center for

Mindfulness in Medicine,

Health Care, and Society in

1995

More than 20,000 people have

completed the 8 week

Mindfulness-Based Stress

Reduction Program (MBSR)

University of Massachusetts

Medical School

DR. John Kabat-Zinn

Based on the work

of

MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS

REDUCTION

Decreases in:

1. Depression

2. Anxiety

3. Substance Abuse

4. Stress

Increases in:

1. Metacognition

2. Self-regulation

3. Pro-Social Behavior

4. Emotional intelligence

What Kind of Stress?

STRESS

Gina Biegel • Founder of Stressed

Teens Training Institute

• Developer of MBSR for

Teens

• Director of Research

for Mindful Schools in

the California

Elementary School

System

Vipassana

Meditation

Children’s Course

METACOGNITION

June, 2013, Newark, NJ

Works Cited

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"Something Has to Change": Blacks in American Buddhism, Lawrence Pintak,Shambhala Sun, September 2001.

Greco, L. Baer, R. Smith, G. 2011. Assessing Mindfulness in Children and Adolescents: Development and

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Association

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Websites Cited

http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/stress/index.aspx

http://news.dhamma.org/2013/06/childrens-course-in-newark-usa

http://www.stressedteens.com

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/105847-the-miracle-of-mindfulness-a-manual-on-meditation

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Video links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpLGpeeW5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP74T4WnrCI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLoxj6JLjtw