Applied Mindfulness II

Catalog description

Building on HEA 552 , this course deepens students' personal mindfulness practices, ensuring that they encounter a broad array of potential meditation experiences and thereby improving their understanding for teaching. Reviews and advances students' levels of confidence and competence in the skill sets of homiletics and guidance. Emphasizes the skill sets of stewardship, which shapes the relational dynamics of the mindfulness group, and inquiry, which is the dialogical exploration of another's moment-to-moment mindfulness experience. Offers experience as a participant observer in a six-week, low-dose Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR-ld) training in a group including participants from the local community. Explores the ethics of teaching mindfulness in relation to the codes of ethics of students' particular professions; continues focus on mental health awareness and trauma-sensitive practice begun in HEA 552 . Final project is development of a curriculum and research project for a population that fits the student's professional interests.