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VIN CE Course 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: *** 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: *** 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: 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: 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.

*For more information on how online CE works, see the Participant Resource Center.

To Enroll:
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  1. Enrollment qualifications: This VIN CE course is open to VIN members only.
  2. Each enrollee must be able to receive emails from @vin.com addresses. Email is our major form of communication with participants; personal emails are highly recommended rather than clinic/hospital email addresses.
  3. Each person is individually responsible for his/her own registration. To ensure that all information received is secure and correct, please do not enroll for a course on behalf of another individual.
  4. For further assistance call 800-846-0028 ext. 797 or email CEonVIN@vin.com. Please include the course title, your full name, and contact information in your correspondence.
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Course withdrawal and refund policy: A complete refund of the paid course price will be issued when your withdrawal request is received prior to the listed start date of the course. If you wish to withdraw after the start date please contact the VIN office 800-846-0028 ext. 797 to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund.

*For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the VIN Course Catalog.

Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Director

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