ALTM300-0418: Brilliant Sanity: How Mindfulness Meditation Can Help Make You More Effective and Happier
The lectures for this course will be presented in an audio format using a webinar platform.
Enrollment has been closed.
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Course Open: April 1-June 20, 2018
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Sundays, April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 20, June 3 and 10, 2018; 7:00-8:00 pm ET (USA)
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Level and Prerequisites:
This
basic course will be open to VIN members
interested in learning how to use Mindfulness in their practices and daily lives.
VIN CE Course: Open to VIN members.
This course does not qualify for AAVSB RACE approval.
Course Information:
Mindfulness meditation is a secular contemplative practice that has been shown
to decrease stress, increase empathy, reduce burnout among health care professionals
and contribute to a greater sense of well-being. While mindfulness is not a substitute
for therapy, it has been used as adjunctive treatment for both depression and anxiety.
This course is designed to introduce mindfulness meditation to the participants and
support the individual's personal practice through on-line meetings with like-minded
professionals.
It consists of eight (8) one-hour sessions, which will include didactic information
about mindfulness, a 20-30 minute practice time and a question/answer session afterwards.
Participants will also need to view the pre-recorded lecture in the library prior
to attending a meditation session that week.
It is hoped that participants will continue to meet on-line during one of the VIN
Mindfulness Meditation sessions held through the week after completion of the series,
although this is not a requirement for participation.
Participants are invited to attend the annual Mindfulness Meditation Retreat for
Veterinarians (and Others), to be held in October 2018 at Techny Conference and
Retreat Center, near Chicago.
During the course, participants should anticipate developing a personal meditation
practice of 10-20 minutes most days and continuing to develop this practice after
the course completes. This personal practice is critical. Colleagues, staff members
and students who are unable to devote the time to this practice may wish to take
the course in subsequent years, when their schedules allow for it.
For additional information on the origin of this series,
please visit the
Mindful Meditation Rounds Transcript.
Week 1 (Meditation Session April 8, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to April 8, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 1 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Body scan and mindfulness meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 2 (Meditation Session April 15, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to April 15, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 2 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Review of the neurobiological research on mindfulness and a review of several
of the large-scale studies on the technique among health care providers and students.
- Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 3 (Meditation Session April 22, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to April 22, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 3 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Empathy, Compassion, Sympathy: What do they really mean?
- Meditation session/question and comments regarding technique.
Week 4 (Meditation Session April 29, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to April 29, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 4 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Dealing with difficult people. How does mindfulness help?
- Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 5 (Meditation Session May 6, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to May 6, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 5 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Using mindfulness to deal with staff issues.
- Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
*** BREAK - May 13 ***
Week 6 (Meditation Session May 20, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to May 20, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 6 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Comments on the utility of mindfulness meditation
from members of the VIN Mindfulness Meditation group.
*** BREAK - May 27 ***
Week 7 (Meditation Session June 3, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to June 3, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 7 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- Dealing with roadblocks to practice. How does one sustain mindfulness practice?
- Meditation session/question and comments regarding technique.
Week 8 (Meditation Session June 10, 2018)
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA. LCPC
Format: Audio
Required (prior to June 10, 2018 Meditation Session):
Watch the "Week 8 Video" located in the course library.
Session Content:
- A summary of where we have been.
- Planning the sustainability of this practice for ourselves.
Course Materials: Course materials will be available
in the course library prior to each meditation session.
Headphones will be helpful to time meditation sessions, although audio will be limited.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.
About the Presenter:
Michele Gaspar is a VIN consultant (Feline Internal Medicine Folder),
as member of the VIN Foundation's Vets4Vets initiative, and holds a Master's in pastoral
counseling from Loyola University/Chicago. She is a licensed clinical professional
counselor and a psychotherapist at Live Oak Chicago. She has completed the adult
psychoanalytic psychotherapy program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis,
where she is currently an analytic candidate. Michele has had a personal
mindfulness meditation practice for 33 years and completed the certificate program
in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy from the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
in Newton, MA. She regularly meditates with a Zen group in Chicago. Her interests
include the use of meditation as an antidote to professional burnout, compassion
fatigue and stress. Michele has lectured on mindfulness meditation to veterinarians,
veterinary support staff and shelter personnel.
Total CE Credit: 0
Tuition: Free to VIN members
*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes,
enrollment will close on Friday April 6, 2018 at 5 pm ET (USA)
or when the maximum number of participants is reached.
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Participant Resource Center.
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VIN Education Director
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