Mindfulness in Higher Education

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Mindfulness in Higher Education

Time: September 3, 2014 from 9:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London
Street: 173 Euston Road
City/Town: London NW1 2BJ
Website or Map: http://oxfordmindfulness.org/…
Phone: omcadmin@psych.ox.ac.uk
Event Type: workshop
Organized By: Oxford Mindfulness Centre
Latest Activity: Jun 4, 2014

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Event Description

There is a growing focus and interest in universities and Higher Education to attend to student wellbeing and flourishing, with initiatives such as ‘Healthy Universities’ recommending that HE institutions ‘embed health and well being into the core of their business and culture’.

Furthermore a number of universities both in the UK and elsewhere have begun to recognise the need to address the impact of student stress on learning.

Mindfulness training can offer all students tools that help:

  1. Those students who are performing well to perform even better as well as assisting those who are struggling.
  2. Minimise the negative effects of stress as and when they occur placing the goal of stress reduction within the normal teaching and learning curriculum as a resource available to all students not just to students in distress.
  3. To manage low mood/depression and reduce anxiety
  4. Maximise general well being and flourishing, building tools for life such as empathy, self-compassion, emotional resilience and tolerance.

The workshop will focus on:

  • Research and local evidence supporting the use of MBSR/MBCT or Mindfulness Based adaptations in Higher Education: Mindfulness and learning, enhancing academic performance, reducing stress and anxiety.
  • Mindfulness based models for Higher Education contexts: case studies, MBCT adaptations including frantic world, clinical and non-clinical populations
  • The Case for Mindfulness in Universities: Practical strategies for engaging management and academic staff in this process, in order to gain support for introducing Mindfulness courses to students. This includes methods for presenting the academic/wellbeing/student retention as well as economic arguments.
  • Setting up 8 week courses: advantages and disadvantages of locating MBI’s within student counselling services or academic support services within Universities and Colleges of Higher Education. Some of the challenges involved in introducing MBI’s to student populations.
  • The workshop will consist of a mixture of experiential and didactic teaching aiming to assist people in developing strategies for effectively integrating Mindfulness training into Higher Education and making it accessible to all students.

Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for staff working in student services, counselling services or academic staff in HE settings interested in introducing mindfulness training for students to enhance well being and performance. It is also for mindfulness teachers already working in Higher Education settings.

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