This article examines the results of a survey about mindfulness competencies in the area of coun- seling and psychotherapy; it specifically addresses competencies needed for training clients in the…
Based on promising results with adults, Accep- tance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) presents as a treatment opportunity for depressed adolescents. We pres-ent a pilot study that compares ACT with tre…
Over the past decade, training in mindfulness—the intentional cultivation of moment-by-moment non-judgmental focused attention and awareness—has spread from its initial western applications in…
Investigations of human potential and well-being recently have focused on mindfulness—a unique quality of consciousness that is defined as being aware of one’s thoughts and actions in the prese…
Interest in applications of mindfulness-based approaches with adults has grown rapidly in recent times, and there is an expanding research base that suggests these are efficacious approaches to pro…
``I couldn't believe it at ®rst; then others said the same thing.'' It was a bright lunchtime on an unseasonably warm Tuesday in January, 2008. We were sitting around a coffee table in the Common …
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation was the first serious, didac- tic Dharma book I read. It was the early nineteen-eighties. My teacher, Jack Kornfield, suggested it as the beginning of formal t…
As women, we have many roles and responsibilities. We are daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, caregivers, working women, leaders, teachers, pastors and pastors' wives, …
If I ask myself why it is I who has been asked to write the Foreword to this important book, I suspect that it is because it is in line with my own book, The World’s Religions, which is, like t…
For Josephine Lynch, mindfulness practitioner par excellence–may she and the mindfulness-based courses she teaches in Dublin continue to thrive and prosper The heart has its reasons which rea…
“In this important book, Christopher Germer illuminates the myriad syn- ergies between mindfulness and compassion. He offers skillful and effec- tive ways of making sure that we are inviting ou…
Being Peace Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the FullAwareness of Breathing A Guide to Walking Meditation The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajiiaparamita Heart Sutra lnterb…