Previous research has indicated the efficacy of mindfulness practices for improving student focus, reducing stress, and regulating emotion in the classroom. However, this workshop demonstrates that optimal student learning involves more than mindfulness by exploring how the additional components of awareness and insight can cultivate emotional intelligence and meaning-making skills through study, contemplation, recognition, and …
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Concurrent Session 5 – The Being-Doing Nexus: A Grounded Theory Exploration
Most mindfulness practitioners today experience being mindful as they do activities throughout their day, including their professional work. While “being” and “doing” involve engaging separate cognitive modes, substantial ambiguity actually exists around how these two modes interact. Theorists posit interactions ranging from mutual incompatibility to synergy, suggesting this interaction significantly influences how mindfulness impacts work …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga in the Public School Setting: Rationale and Research
Children and adolescents are faced with substantial stresses and life challenges that contribute to an increasing burden of mental and physical health conditions and problem behaviors. The existing school curriculum is lacking in instruction that would provide skills of self-regulation, stress management, and emotion regulation. Yoga is a contemplative mind/body practice that combines meditation, mind/body …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Contemplative Initiatives for Business Education
To what extent can meditation and mindfulness help future business leaders cultivate authenticity, tolerance, and empathy, leading to a heightened sense of belongingness and responsibility to the communities in which they will live and work? Proceeding from this question, this presentation highlights the vital role contemplative practices have to play in equipping business students with …
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Concurrent Session 5 – First Findings from the ReSource Project: Training Mind and Heart
The ReSource Project is a large-scale, multimethod, longitudinal study investigating the effects of different mental training practices on subjective experience, behavior, brain, and physiology. Over nine months, 180 participants underwent a structured curriculum with three separate modules training: (1) attention and interoceptive awareness; (2) loving kindness and prosocial motivation; and (3) cognitive perspective taking and …
Concurrent Session 5 – Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Targets Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Opioid Misuse and Chronic Pain
Prescription opioid misuse among persons with chronic pain is an emerging public health threat of epidemic proportions. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, a multimodal intervention designed to simultaneously target mechanisms underpinning chronic pain and opioid misuse. In this study, a sample of 115 chronic pain patients who were taking long-term …
Concurrent Session 5 – Different Neural Characteristics Associated with MBSR and the Relaxation Response
The two most widely used stress reduction programs are MBSR and the Relaxation Response (RR). Although both programs use meditation techniques and effectively reduce stress, proponents of each program postulate very different mechanistic models. We hypothesized that there would be both shared and unique neural mechanisms associated with each program, as well as differential psychological …
Concurrent Session 5 – Promoting Mindful Practice for Health Care Professionals: Quality of Care, Quality of Caring and Resilience
Physicians are trained with the explicit mandate of addressing suffering with compassion, yet mainstream medical training and the medical literature are largely silent about how to accomplish this. Through contemplative practice, written and oral narratives, deep listening, appreciative inquiry, and dialogue, our mindful practice programs were designed to enhance clinicians’ self-awareness, self-monitoring, and self-regulation during …
Concurrent Session 5 – LifeWorks at Stanford
Two Stanford faculty will describe a new program at Stanford that seeks to integrate contemplative studies into the undergraduate curriculum and attract faculty and students, whether or not they are initially interested in meditation or mindfulness. The program, called LifeWorks, offers its own courses, which blend traditional cognitive learning with mindfulness practices and workshops for …
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Concurrent Session 5 – Increasing Emotional and Cognitive Regulation Among Highly Vulnerable Youth: Advancing the Science of Mindfulness Training
Mindfulness training for youth is growing tremendously across the nation; however, few studies rigorously assess its effects. Studies that employ mindfulness training have shown promise in increasing emotional and cognitive regulation among youth, including those who are highly vulnerable. Rigorous controlled trials are vital for increasing our understanding of the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for …
