Target Audience: Save the Date!
Educators, healthcare providers, psychotherapists, researchers and administrators of programs providing care and education to youth. Participants will:
- LEARN MINDFULNESS SKILLS, practices and programs that you share with youth in nearly any setting
- HEAR FROM EXPERTS already bringing mindfulness to youth in schools, clinics, neighborhoods and hospitals
- CONNECT WITH LIKE-MINDED EDUCATORS, clinicians and researchers to build resources and networks of support
- GET UP TO SPEED ON THE LATEST RESEARCH FINDINGS and projects, and find out how you can contribute
- EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS around how you might bring mindfulness to bear on the challenges of your community or population
- ENJOY ALL THE BENEFITS That San Diego has to offer in mid-winter!
For more information, go to BridgingConference.org
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Engage in a variety of mindfulness-based programs for children and adolescents through experiential techniques and dissemination of information for participants to use in their work with youth.
- Develop skills to utilize a variety of adapted mindfulness-based interventions for youth.
- Discuss current information regarding mindfulness and brain science through research and practice.
- Review current research as it is related to societal trends regarding the state of our youth today and explore how mindfulness can play a crucial role in positively impacting these trends.
- Obtain direct, personal experience of mindfulness practice and learn how it applies to both professional and personal practice.
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