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Mindfulness Practice for Doctors:
a 3-day Experiential Retreat

Medicine is a stressful profession, especially in the current climate of accelerated change. Doctors are expected to provide first class care to patients at all times: but how do we take care of ourselves? Come and think about this mindfully and learn how to practice mindfulness in a calm and relaxed setting. There will be time to talk, walk, reflect, and meditate in beautiful countryside and in good company. All doctors welcome.

Suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners.

Mindfulness Practice - Experiential Retreat  for Doctors

“…the danger is that [people] become identical with their personas—the professor with his textbook, the tenor his voice…”
                                                        CG Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

As doctors, to what extent do we identify with our social roles?  Why do we do this? What impact does over-identification with our social roles have upon us and our patients? What is the role of mindfulness practice in all this?


Illustration of  a typical programme.
 

Day 1

 
  1600 – 1730 Arrival and Tea
  1830 – 1930 Supper
  1945 – 2100 Welcome and Orientation
Introduction to the weekend
Sit- Bodyscan
   

Silence Overnight until 1000

  DAy 2  
  0800 – 0830 Sit or Movement practice (Optional)
  0845 – 0930 Breakfast
  1000 – 1015 Morning Briefing
  1015– 1115

Meet up and for morning briefing Small Groups:

1) Gwen: Introduction to mindfulness practice
2) Munissara : Developing concentration

  1115 – 1130 Tea
  1130 – 1230 Small Groups Continued
  1300– 1345 Lunch
  1600 – 1630 Tea
  1630 – 1745 Mark: Identification with our social roless
  1815 – 1930 Supper
  1945 – 2100 Glenn: Evening Mindfulness
    Silence Overnight until 1000
  Day 3  
  0800 – 0830 Sit or Movement practice (Optional)
  0845 – 0930 Breakfast
  1000 – 1045

Small Group Practice
1) Gwen: Body awareness
2) Mark: Movement
3) Munissara: Sitting and Walking

  1045 – 1115 Tea
  1115 – 1200 Small Group Practice Continued
  1200 – 1230 Closing remarks & Feedback
  1300 – 1345 Lunch
    Depart

 

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