Mindfulness in Integrative Healthcare
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This comprehensive course equips healthcare providers with essential knowledge about mindfulness practices and their clinical applications. You'll learn to assess when mindfulness may benefit your patients or clients, educate them about potential benefits, and connect them with appropriate resources. The course begins by exploring what mindfulness truly entails through both presentations and direct experiential learning. You'll examine research evidence supporting mindfulness benefits for various conditions including pain management, anxiety, depression, and general wellbeing, while also learning to identify contraindications and potential risks. The curriculum includes practical guidance on making mindfulness recommendations, addressing patient challenges, and evaluating online resources and applications. Additionally, you'll discover how mindfulness practices can benefit you professionally as a healthcare provider, helping reduce stress, enhance focus, and improve emotional regulation. By course completion, you'll have both theoretical knowledge and practical skills to effectively integrate mindfulness into your healthcare practice.
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What you'll learn
Assess when mindfulness may benefit patients based on evidence and contraindications
Educate patients about potential benefits of mindfulness for conditions like pain, anxiety, and sleep issues
Recommend appropriate mindfulness techniques and resources tailored to patient needs
Identify quality mindfulness programs and resources both locally and online
Implement mindfulness practices in your own professional life to reduce stress and enhance wellbeing
Address common patient challenges and barriers to mindfulness practice
Skills you'll gain
This course includes:
2.83 Hours PreRecorded video
6 assignments
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There are 5 modules in this course
This comprehensive course teaches healthcare providers how to effectively integrate mindfulness practices into patient care. The curriculum progresses logically from understanding foundational concepts to practical application. Students first learn what mindfulness is (and isn't) through both theoretical education and direct experience. They then explore evidence-based applications for specific conditions like pain, anxiety, depression, and general wellbeing. The course provides practical tools for patient assessment, making appropriate recommendations, and addressing implementation challenges. Students learn to evaluate resources including apps, online programs, and local options. The final modules focus on professional benefits for healthcare providers themselves, including stress reduction, enhanced focus, and emotional regulation techniques that can be integrated into busy clinical settings.
What Is Mindfulness?
Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete
Assess if Mindfulness Would Be Beneficial
Module 2 · 2 Hours to complete
Getting Started
Module 3 · 2 Hours to complete
Peer Review Project
Module 4 · 1 Hours to complete
Evaluate Use for Your Patients and Yourself
Module 5 · 1 Hours to complete
Fee Structure
Individual course purchase is not available - to enroll in this course with a certificate, you need to purchase the complete Professional Certificate Course. For enrollment and detailed fee structure, visit the following: Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization, Integrative Nursing: Care & Healing Modalities
Instructors
Mindfulness Teacher and Director of Learning Resources
Louise Delagran, MA, MEd, is a writer, researcher, teacher, and the editor of the popular consumer websites: Taking Charge of Your Heath and Wellbeing (www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu). Louise has a strong interest in personal and community wellbeing and recently co-authored a chapter on advancing wellbeing in the Oxford University Press textbook, Integrative Nursing. She has a particular interest in mindfulness from a research and teaching perspective and, most importantly of all, has practiced meditation for over 16 years, including intensive retreat practice. Louise teaches a community Introduction to Mindfulness course and incorporates mindfulness practices into her undergraduate course on Principles of Holistic Health.
Assistant Professor, Mindfulness Program Lead
Alex Haley is an assistant professor and the mindfulness program lead at the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality & Healing where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, assists with clinical research and helps support mindfulness programming for public, non-profit and for-profit organizations. His areas of study include mindfulness, embodiment, behavior change and designing online / virtual reality learning environments. Alex is a graduate student in the Cognitive Science PhD program at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Interactive Visualization Lab. Alex completed a four-year training program through the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center under the guidance of his mentors Joseph Goldstein and Guy Armstrong. He has also been trained by the Center for Mindfulness, the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and the Coaches Training Institute. Alex has studied and practiced meditation for more than 15 years, including many months of intensive retreat practice, and worked for start-ups, mid-sized companies and large multinationals both domestically and internationally in legal and business roles. He is also a founding member of the Mindfulness for Students network and leads residential retreats around the country.
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