Deepen Your Practice: Mindfulness for Occupational Therapists
You know there is good evidence for using mindfulness as part of your OT practice. It has been shown to help reduce stress, decrease rumination, decrease emotional reactivity, improve focus, improve memory, help us live within our values and manage to live well with pain. Building a personal practice can increase your own resilience and that of your family and clients. In fact, if one person in a family practices mindfulness, the whole family gets some benefit. As health care providers, we need to take care of our well-being during a pandemic, more than ever. This is an opportunity to build your practice as part of a community of OTs, without leaving home.
Over 8 weeks, this course will give you the opportunity to establish your own mindfulness practice and to learn ways to start to integrate it into your work as an OT right away, along with a group of like-minded OTs.
There will be a mix of online content that you can work through at your own pace and weekly live group calls. In order to meet different learn styles, there will be movement, reflective exercises, meditations, video content, discussions and written materials. You can focus on the ways that you learn best!