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FREE Workshop
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation and Its
Medical Applications
Taught by: Thanh V. Nguyen, MD
Date: Thursday, May 6
Location: The Queen's Conference Center - corner of Punchbowl and Beretania Sts. MAP
Parking: At Queen's (charge) or the Dept. of Health (across Punchbowl St.) in metered parking
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Registration: On site.
Contact: info@hawaiiconsortium.org or 808-888-5053
DOWNLOAD flyer:
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation and Its
Medical Applications
Taught by: Thanh V. Nguyen, MD
Date: Thursday, May 6
Location: The Queen's Conference Center - corner of Punchbowl and Beretania Sts. MAP
Parking: At Queen's (charge) or the Dept. of Health (across Punchbowl St.) in metered parking
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Registration: On site.
Contact: info@hawaiiconsortium.org or 808-888-5053
DOWNLOAD flyer:
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What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying non-judging attention, moment by moment, to present-time unfolding life experience without attachment to pleasantness or resistance to unpleasantness. This relaxed non-bias awareness allows one to see things clearly as they really are and learn to respond, rather than react to stressors encountered. This may result in more joy and a sense of peace. Mindfulness has been successfully taught in hospitals and stress reduction clinics around the world.
Workshop Highlights
Theory:
Practice:
Dr. Thanh Huynh is a radiation oncologist holding faculty appointments with the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i and the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i. He has been studying and practicing mindfulness (insight/vipassana) meditation since 1984 and began sharing this practice with O‘ahu prison inmates in 1992. Dr. Huynh offers regular Mindfulness classes to the public, school children and cancer patients with rewarding results. He and Dr Carolyn Gotay of the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i recently completed a successful feasibility study using the internet to teach cancer patients mindfulness and are working on a national study using the same technique.
Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying non-judging attention, moment by moment, to present-time unfolding life experience without attachment to pleasantness or resistance to unpleasantness. This relaxed non-bias awareness allows one to see things clearly as they really are and learn to respond, rather than react to stressors encountered. This may result in more joy and a sense of peace. Mindfulness has been successfully taught in hospitals and stress reduction clinics around the world.
Workshop Highlights
Theory:
- Benefits of the mindfulness practice, including a literature review.
- Concentration and mindfulness.
- How to establish mindfulness.
- Concept and reality.
Practice:
- Guided instruction on some techniques of mindfulness.
- Application of mindfulness in daily activities.
Dr. Thanh Huynh is a radiation oncologist holding faculty appointments with the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i and the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i. He has been studying and practicing mindfulness (insight/vipassana) meditation since 1984 and began sharing this practice with O‘ahu prison inmates in 1992. Dr. Huynh offers regular Mindfulness classes to the public, school children and cancer patients with rewarding results. He and Dr Carolyn Gotay of the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i recently completed a successful feasibility study using the internet to teach cancer patients mindfulness and are working on a national study using the same technique.