October 9-12, 2009 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Sponsor: Oasis, an institute for Mindfulness-based professional education and innovation, U Mass Medical School, Center for Mindfulness Mindfulness practice has the potential to foster resiliency of health care professionals by providing self-care tools to manage cumulative work-related stress and by enabling them to be more present and connected with their patients and colleagues. Mindfulness can also be incoporated into clinical care, teaching patients basic techniques to alleviate their emotional and physical suffering. Empowering patients and providing holistic care in this way further strengthens professional satisfaction and meaning, thus augmenting resiliency and minimizing burnout. Meeting Suffering: Clarity and Calm in the Care of Serious Illness will provide health care professionals with wasy-to-understand mindfulness practices that can be applied to their personal lives and to their work with particular clinical conditions and settings. The mindfulness techniques that we will experientially and didactically explore during this training program have been specifically adaptd for health care professionals who care for persons with life-threatening or debilitating illnesses. For information and to register: contact cfm.oasis@umassmed.edu Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.