Mindfulness for Health Care Professionals - Continuing Education Course

     It's surprising and humbling to catch oneself overreacting! We all do it in one way or another. Some of us "explode" for all to see and hear. Many of us unwittingly allow resentment to fester in our guts, which inevitably spills out in all forms of short- and long-term fallout: cynicism, irritability, anger, perfectionism, workaholism, dogmatism, presenteeism, absenteeism, somatization, burnout, even suicide.
     Interestingly, we may be able to handle more serious upsets with grace and maturity, yet "go ballistic" over something completely meaningless in the overall scheme of things eg when a car cuts us off. What's that about? Could it be the festering stuff in our guts spilling out? There is a reasonable explanation for everything, including what appears to be unreasonable behavior. All effects have causes.
     One of the key benefits of mindfulness training is learning to see things with increasing clarity, and thus, learning to respond to them with increasing appropriateness - regardless of the difficulty of the situation. We can't make the external environment conform to our wishes, but we can, through mindfulness practices, provide favorable conditions for our consciousness to evolve, thereby learning to relate increasingly more wisely to life's many and varied challenges.

     Working ever harder & "more perfectly" at your profession, at some point, becomes glaringly inadequate. Consider learning a critical life skill in this immersion course with like-minded, mature heath-care professionals. Life can be more peaceful, even joyful, despite aging and many other inevitable ups and downs!

Mindfulness for Health-Care Professionals: 

An 8-week Immersion in Self-care

Presented by: Dr. John Lovas

Sept 27, 2012 – Nov 15, 2012

Thursdays, 5:30 - 8:00pm (light dinner included)

Faculty of Dentistry

Dalhousie University

Halifax, NS, Canada

For detailed brochure: 

http://www.dentistry.dal.ca/cde/currentschedule.html

For additional information phone or email Rita:

(902) 494-1674

Rita.Davis@Dal.Ca