Deepen Your Practice: Mindfulness for Occupational Therapists
Are you an OT wanting to weave mindfulness into your practice but don’t know where to start? There is good evidence for using mindfulness as part of your OT practice.
It has been shown to help reduce stress, sleep better, 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. And if the therapist practices, the client outcomes improve. 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.
This is an online program to learn mindfulness for yourself and to bring it to your clients. There are self-paced modules, live group calls and an interactive online community.
Keep reading if you're an OT, student OT, or OTA who is looking to:
• Develop your knowledge of mindfulness
• Establish and build consistency with your mindfulness practice
• Connect with a community of like-minded OTs from around the world
• Back it up with evidence
• Bring mindfulness to your clients
• Build resilience for yourself and your clients
Here's what you'll get when you sign up:
8 weeks of self-paced learning material to help you build your own consistent mindfulness practice and relate mindfulness to OT
Live interactive calls to do group meditation and discuss the materials, or listen to the replays when you want
3-month access to a community of practice with other mindful OTs, including an optional private Facebook group
Tools to help you build your resilience during this pandemic
A guided "Day of Mindfulness"
Downloadable guided meditations
Therapy activities which you can bring to your clients right away
Meditation scripts
A mindfulness booklet
Interactions with OTs from around the world
Journal articles and summaries of the evidence for using mindfulness
Accountability to other OTs while you bring mindfulness into your life
Opportunities to problem-solve with other OTs and ask questions
Mindful movement videos
Tracking sheets
Links to educational resources you can use with your clients
Certificate of participation
To see the full curriculum, feedback from past participants and frequently asked questions, go to:
https://sarahgoodot.ca/p/deepen-your-practice-self-paced
This course can begin any time. The eight modules will be released once per week. You'll have access to the community of practice for 3 months. The early bird pricing is available until May 1, 2021.