Australian Visit Itinerary

Sydney • Public Talk
Thurs Nov 23 • 6pm - 8pm
Macquarie University
Herring Road, North Ryde

Sydney • Workshop
Fri Nov 24 • 9am – 5pm
Amora Hotel Jamison
11 Jamison Street, Sydney

Melbourne • Public Talk
Mon Nov 27 • 7:00pm – 10.15 pm
Camberwell Civic Centre
340 Camberwell Road, Camberwell

Melbourne • Lecture / Medical Grand Round
Tues Nov 28 • 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Monash Medical Centre, Clayton Road, Clayton

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine emeritus
University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA USA
Founding director: Stress Reduction Clinic and Center for Mindfulness in Medicine,
Health Care, and Society

In this workshop, Dr. Kabat-Zinn will present the work his colleagues and he have been engaged in for the past twenty five years, that has given rise to a range of mindfulness-based interventions, the most widespread of which are mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). He will describe relevant aspects of the history, rationale, structure, and function of MBSR and MBCT and their clinical outcomes as documented in a growing number of clinical trials and research studies. The workshop will also be experiential, serving as an introduction to the meditative practices associated with MBSR and MBCT, as first-person engagement is essential for understanding the heart of this approach. Mindfulness is a rigorous meditative discipline -- a gentle but challenging way of being and perceiving and inhabiting one’s life, and cannot be fully understood as a conceptually driven cognitive-behavioral technique deployed in particular circumstances as required. We will practice some aspects of MBSR together, space and time permitting, such as sitting meditation, the body scan, and mindful yoga, and well as mindful eating and mindful walking, and explore in dialogue as a group the experiential dimension of what arises for us during formal mindfulness practice, with an eye to its potential applications in clinical situations in medicine and psychology, and in particular, cognitive-behavioral therapies.

Fri 24th November. Registrations: 8:00am. Workshop: 9:00am - 5:00pm
(Fully booked)
Amora Jamison (formerly known as Rydges Jamison),
11 Jamison Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided.