Conference roundup – Association for Coaching UK Resilience Conference, London, 14 July
One way to get busy clients to embrace mindfulness is to introduce them to “mindful minutes”, said mindfulness expert Michael Chaskalson.
“We’re all busy, but if you ask someone if they can find a minute, nobody says no,” he said at the Association for Coaching UK’s conference on resilience on 14 July.
He defined mindfulness as “paying attention to experience, without judging, filtering or censoring, from that place of being able to be present and being able to make a choice about what you do with that presence.”
Chaskalson said one study, “Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density” (Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, pp 36-43, 2011), found participation in an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction programme is associated with changes in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking:
Chaskalson will run a mindfulness workshop at the Coaching and Mentoring at Work conference on 23 November in London www.coaching-at-work.com/beyond-frontiers-workshops/
See also www.coaching-at-work.com/2009/03/06/brain-train/
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