Feedback from participants of past MBSR courses:Read more about MBSRWhat is the difference between MBSR and just breathing to relax and focus better? Getting to know one's mind helps us recognize our own thought habits, our reactions to trigger-words and other environmental stimuli. Practicing regularly helps us sit with whatever shows up. While we notice what's really going on, inside and outside, we cultivate a non-judgement stance and equanimity. Check out one way to express this perspective from the video.
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Biography as an MBSR teacher - Dr. Do
Dr. Do is a qualified teacher with the UC San Diego Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Certification program. At California State university Fullerton, she facilitates Mindful Mondays for staff and faculty, gives workshop on Mindfulness to the Allied Health Student Association, the Facilities Management, taught a webinar for the College of Education and presented at retreats, for the Diversity Inclusion and Equity Office, the Nursing Department... She volunteers for the various support groups of St Joseph 0C Caregiver Resource Centers, including the Brain Injury Survivor group, Caregivers group, Chronic Pain group... She presented Introduction to Mindfulness and Brain Research to various Youth organizations including the Buddhist Light Youth Orchestra, Boy Scout troups, LaHabra Middle School, Cabrillo High School, Bodhi Academy and the Frogwarts summer camp. As a member of the Interbeing Order (Thich Nhat Hanh) since 1991 she has practiced Mindfulness for over thirty years in sanghas at Plum Village (France), Maple Village (Montreal), Blue Cliff Mountain (NY), and Deer Park (CA). Dr. Do has guest-lectured about Mindfulness across the continent for college and university courses including psychology, music, religious studies, and the humanities. Future projects may include Mindfulness sessions with Vijay Gupta, for the Young Musicians Foundation, and resource creation for Vietnamese teachers and youngsters, with Dr. Phe Bach, (Ph.D. in education).
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Mindfulness Practice-Interbeing Order, Plum Village, France, 1991
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Past Mindfulness courses or introductory sessions
Bodhi Academy - for staff and friends
Introduction to Mindfulness for Boy Scouts group
Introduction to Mindfulness Webinar |
CSU Fullerton - for Faculty and Staff
Mindfulness and Creativity
introduction-to-Mindfulness through sound for middle school band students |
MBSR for seniors in Vietnamese for CalOptima
Mindfulness for Young Musicians. Buddha Light Youth Orchestra
Audio Samples: in English or in Vietnamese |
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is!"
Mark Twain |
Impermanence:
"If you see yourself as a wave, you would have a beginning and an end. If you see yourself as a drop of water, you would have no beginning nor end." Thich Nhat Hanh |
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It takes a village
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Interdependence
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"The words you speak become the house you live in" Hafiz |