Jan. 18: Yogic Chanting 101 (Anneliese)
Feb. 1: In Praise of Slow Food (Liz)
Feb. 15: Mindfulness Meditation (Anneliese)
March 8: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (Guest Leader Anna Salamone)
2009 Tentative Schedule November 13, 2009
Mindful Parenting Notes October 29, 2009
Just a heads up that I have moved my summaries from a few chapters of the Mindful Parenting book we will be discussing on Nov. 9 & Dec. 7 to new page called “Mindful Parenting Notes” that you can access from the top of our homepage: http://womed.wordpress.com/mindful-parenting/
Oct & Nov 2009 Schedule Update October 16, 2009
Ch-ch-changes
- The Oct. 12th session was canceled to avoid conflicting with Pres. Skorton’s lecture. I was unable to find a good reschedule date for the first session so now we will cover all the reading in 2 sessions instead of 3. New page divisions listed below.
- The Oct. 26 session has been canceled.
Updated Fall 2009 Schedule All meetings from 12-12:50p.m. in 146 Myron Taylor/ISS Conf Room Directions: http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir Oct. 26: Canceled Nov. 9 Mindful Parenting II: p. 1-214 Nov. 23 Thinking Mind: Anneliese will lead a couple meditations showcasing different ways to increase awareness of the thinking mind. Dec. 7 Mindful Parenting III: p. 215-388 New Session Leaders Needed for 2010 I have had one volunteer leader move out of state and several have their jobs change such that they can't lead anymore. Please consider leading in 2010 when I send a call for co-leaders on the alternate Mondays that I do not lead. I will still lead one session a month.
Here’s to bringing your full creative genius to the conundrum of how to find time to meditate,
Anneliese
Oct. 12th mtg canceled, to be rescheduled October 8, 2009
I have been made aware that the Oct. 12th Womed session conflicts with Pres. Skorton’s staff address, so I will need to reschedule the session. Stay tuned for a new date!
October Schedule Update October 2, 2009
Join Us on Monday, Oct. 12 (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
This session will be rescheduled so that it does not conflict with Pres. Skorton’s staff address.
Mindful Parenting I: Anneliese will lead the first of 3 discussions of Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn’s Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, p. 1-150. Our exploration this time will focus on p. 1-146 of the book, which is Parts 1-4, but you don’t need to have read all of that. Remember the Womed motto: Come as you are when you can!
Directions to ISS conference room (146 Myron Taylor Hall): http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
Mindful Parenting Read-a-long on the Blog
Interested in this topic, but you don’t have time to read a 400 page book, or you can’t make our in-person discussions? I will be posting summaries and suggested exercises from the book on the Womed blog for the next couple of months at a new page called “Mindful Parenting Notes” that you can access from the top of our homepage: http://womed.wordpress.com/mindful-parenting/
Feel free to check it out and comment!
Fall Schedule
Oct. 26: Janet
Nov. 9: Mindful Parenting II: Everyday Blessings, p. 151-264
Nov. 23: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Dec. 7: Mindful Parenting III: Everyday Blessings, p. 265-378
Fall Schedule Update September 21, 2009
Join Us Monday, Sept. 28 (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
Karyn will lead us in a Buddhist counting meditation that you can do anywhere–an airport, waiting in line, the doctor’s office. No equipment needed! Join us to practice this simple but powerful tool that you can return to again and again for calm and balance.
Directions to ISS conference room (146 Myron Taylor Hall): http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
Fall Schedule: Volunteer Leader Needed
Oct. 12: Anneliese
Oct. 26: Janet
Nov. 9: Anneliese
Nov. 23: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Dec. 7: Anneliese
September Womed Update September 11, 2009
Join Us Monday, Sept. 14 (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
The Role of Meditation in Depression Recovery
Anneliese will focus on a major antidote to depression: shifting from from the goal-oriented doing mode that serves us so well in the workplace and life to the mode of mindful being that offers the gifts of appreciation, presence, and reduced vulnerability to depression. She will share how this shift helped her recover from 2 decades of clinical depression, as well as insights and 2 brief meditations from the book/CD: The Mindful Way Through Depression.
Directions to ISS conference room (146 Myron Taylor Hall): http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
Fall Schedule: Volunteer Leaders Needed
Sept. 28: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Oct. 12: Anneliese
Oct. 26: Janet
Nov. 9: Anneliese
Nov. 23: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Dec. 7: Anneliese
Here’s to finding a moment to be gentle with yourself today and appreciating how awesome you are!
Anneliese
August Update August 17, 2009
Join Us Today, August 17 (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
Jan R. will lead a chanting meditation from a CD if it is too hot to do a walking meditation.
Directions to ISS conference room in 146 Myron Taylor Hall: http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
August 31: Special Guest Leader, Alice McDowell (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
Alice McDowell, PhD, is founder of the Light on the Hill Retreat Center in Van Etten, NY and former professor of Religious Studies at Ithaca College. On August 31, 2009, she will lead the Womed meditation and afterwards, describe a program that she developed at Light on the Hill which grew out of her own eclectic spiritual path. Several Womed regulars have completed this three year program of personal and spiritual development; some will be at the meditation and can speak to how their own lives and path have changed course as a result of this work.
Directions to ISS conference room in 146 Myron Taylor Hall: http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
Fall Schedule: Volunteer Leaders Needed
Sept. 14: Anneliese
Sept. 28: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Oct. 12: Anneliese
Oct. 26: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Nov. 9: Anneliese
Nov. 23: tba Please email Anneliese at amt58 to volunteer
Dec. 7: Anneliese
From Around the Web
This article on the mindfulness/food relationship was spotted by Womed member Karyn:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/554881/
Local MBCT Class Begins Sept. 9
HELP PREVENT DEPRESSION with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
An eight-week course designed to help people who are prone to repeated bouts of depression and chronic unhappiness
In this course cognitive therapy principles are combined with meditative practices and attitudes that are based on the cultivation of mindfulness. Participants become acquainted with the modes of the mind which often characterize mood disorders, while simultaneously learning to develop a new relationship to them.
Practices taught are designed to help participants become familiar with the workings of the mind, notice times of risk for getting caught in old habits of mind that reactivate downward mood spirals, and explore ways of releasing oneself from those old habits.
The approach is referred to as MBCT and was developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale. It is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program.
The course consists of eight weekly 2-hour classes, and includes specific work to be done at home between classes using CDs that support participants’ developing mindfulness practices.
Class 1: Automatic Pilot
Class 2: Dealing with Barriers
Class 3: Mindfulness of the Breath
Class 4: Staying Present
Class 5: Allowing and Letting Be
Class 6: Thoughts are Not Facts
Class 7: How Can I Best Take Care of Myself
Class 8: Using What Has Been Learned to Deal with Future Moods
For questions, date availability or to schedule an initial interview, call 607-256-3959, or e-mail: annasalamonetherapist@fltg.net
ANNA SALAMONE RN, LCSW-R
Qualifications:
Training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with Zindel Segal,* certification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, private practice since 1981, ongoing education and work with meditation and mindfulness practices beginning in 1991, inpatient psychiatric nursing experience, leadership positions in Clinical Practice, Quality Assurance, and Education at: Albany Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Albany, New York, DePaul Mental Health Services, St. Mary’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry, and Unity Health System Department of Psychiatry, Rochester, New York.
*Zindel Segal is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is head of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Unit at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health and is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research has helped to characterize psychological markers of mood disorders.
Reminder: New Womed Website
http://womed.wordpress.com/
Here’s to finding new places in your heart to breathe into,
Anneliese
Revised August Schedule July 30, 2009
August 17 (NOT August 10) : Jan R. will lead a walking meditation if Mother Nature agrees, and a chanting meditation if not.
A second August session may be added, but we will NOT meet August 24.
Join Us Today, July 13! July 13, 2009
Join Us Today, July 13! (12-12:50 p.m.; 146 Myron Taylor)
Liz will lead a meditation from her collection!
Directions to ISS conference room/146 Myron Taylor Hall: http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/about.html#Dir
2009 Schedule
*July 27: *Book Discussion– I Thought it Was Just Me But It Wasn’t: Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power by Brene Brown. Copies: We are circulating copies within the group; two copies are in the Finger Lakes Library system at http://www.tcpl.org/, and Amazon has them for $10.20 at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592403352/wwwbrenebrown-20
*August 10*: TBA (email amt58 to volunteer to lead this session)
*August 24: *Anneliese will lead a meditation, topic tba.
