SPEAKER: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP(Feline)
ROUNDS SERIES OPEN: November 28, 2011-January 31, 2012
MEDITATION SESSIONS: Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 AM ET; Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 PM ET,
Thursdays 10:00-11:00 PM ET and Sundays 7:00-8:00 PM ET and 10:00-11:00 PM ET (USA)
Session Times in Your Area:
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This is not being offered as a true CE course.
This is essentially a recurring rounds in an expanded form.
It will have a dedicated library and message boards, but HAS NOT
been submitted for RACE approval and participants
WILL NOT receive CE credit.
For additional information on the origin of this series, please visit
Dr. Gaspar's recent rounds.
Series Topic:
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 Rounds series is designed to introduce mindfulness meditation to the participants
and support the individual's personal practice through on-line meetings with
like-minded professionals.
There will be five (5) one-hour meditation sessions each week over an eight (8) week period.
It is recommended that participants attend at least one session
each week, although it is possible to attend several.
Prior to attending a meditation session, participants will need to view the pre-recorded lecture
that will be provided in the Meditation Rounds library.
Each meditation session will include didactic information about mindfulness, a 20-30 minute practice
time and a question/answer session afterwards.
Ideally, participants should anticipate developing a personal meditation practice of 20-30
minutes most days while taking this course.
This personal practice is critical.
It is hoped that participants will continue to meet on-line after completion of the course,
although this is not a requirement for participation.
Upon completion of this series, the participant should be able to
- Understand the technique of mindfulness meditation and be able to practice at home.
- Know the neurobiology that supports the use of this technique and be familiar with
some of the research on the benefits of mindfulness to health care professionals.
- Provide a less reactive and more focused, empathic way of interacting with self,
clients, staff and family/friends.
- Utilize mindfulness on a daily basis to counteract burnout, negative events and
prevent negative ruminations (reviewing negative events throughout the day).
- Discover their own ability to live fully in each moment with greater peace and
personal satisfaction.
Materials: These will be available in the course library
prior to each Real Time Session.
Headphones will be helpful to time meditation sessions, although audio will be limited.
Questions from participants and answers will be typed (as is done in VIN Rounds).
About the Speaker:
Dr. Michele Gaspar is a consultant in VIN's Feline Internal Medicine Folder.
She is currently completing a master's degree in counseling at Loyola University/Chicago,
with a particular interest in the use of mindfulness and objects relations theory as applied
to issues regarding burnout, decreased empathy, and client/staff communications issues
in veterinary medicine.
She has had a personal mindfulness practice for the past 12 years, is a graduate of
the certificate program in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy from the Institute of Meditation
and Psychotherapy in Newton, MA and is a member of Ancient Dragon Gate Zen Center in Chicago.
She is currently completing an internship at a large, non-profit community mental health
center near Chicago where she frequently utilizes mindfulness with clients across the
spectrum of mental health issues.
Meditation Series Outline:
Week 1 (Any Meditation Session during November 28-December 3):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 1 Video" in the course library.
Content:
Body scan and mindfulness meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 2 (Any Meditation Session during December 5-December 11):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 2 Video" in the course library.
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 (Any Meditation Session during December 12-December 18):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 3 Video" in the course library.
Content:
Empathy,
Compassion,
Sympathy: What do they really mean?
Meditation session/question and comments regarding technique.
Note: The course will not meet for didactics December 19-25, although meditation
sessions will be held at the regular times this week (no meetings December 25)
for those interested.
Week 4 (Any Meditation Session During December 26-January 1):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 4 Video" in the course library.
Content:
Dealing with difficult people.
How does mindfulness help?
Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 5 (Any Meditation Session during January 2-January 9):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 5 Video" in the course library.
Content:
Using mindfulness to deal with staff issues.
Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 6 (Any Meditation Session during January 10-January 16):
Content:
Guest speaker. Meditation session/questions and comments regarding technique.
Week 7 (Any Meditation Session during January 17-January 23):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 7 Video" in the course library.
Content:
Dealing with roadblocks to practice.
How does one sustain mindfulness practice?
Meditation session/question and comments regarding technique.
Week 8 (Any Meditation Session during January 24-January 31):
Before the Meditation Session:
Watch the "Week 8 Video" in the course library.
Content:
A summary of where we have been?
Planning the sustainability of this practice for ourselves.
CE CREDITS: 0
Tuition: Free to VIN and VSPN members.
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Coordinator
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