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Practical Mindfulness

September 17-18, 2018

Faculty: Rachel Wohl

 

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This course will provide new practical tools for remaining focused, calm and present, even in the heat of conflict. You will learn the basics of mindfulness meditation and "Taking STOCK," a practical technique that enables conflict resolution professionals and others to continually integrate mindfulness into their work and lives.

We all aspire to provide high-quality service and to derive satisfaction in the process, but often face barriers to fulfilling our aspirations. Stress, our fast-paced lives, conflicting demands, anxiety, burn-out and other challenges distract us from bringing our whole selves to bear upon our work and our lives, even when we are trying to do so.

Mindfulness, a systematic method of paying attention, deliberately, in the moment, without judgment, can help us gain awareness of our mental and emotional processes, our habitual reactions, and their manifestations in our mind, body, and breath. Such self-awareness opens the door to developing ourselves in ways that will enable us to be more skillful and to get greater satisfaction from our work and our lives. There are misconceptions about meditation that lead many to the believe that it is a very difficult process to learn. This course offers simple and clear meditation instruction.


What you will learn:

  • The basics of mindfulness meditation, a systematic method of moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness, which develops both calmness of mind and body and deep insight into the workings of our minds and hearts
  • To deepen self-awareness and be kinder to yourself and others
  • The Taking STOCK technique, which you will practice to integrate and maintain mindfulness in various conflict roles

Rachel Wohl, JD, is a mediator and attorney who teaches conflict resolution and mindfulness meditation classes, nationally and internationally. Wohl has been meditating for over 20 years and teaching meditation for over 10 years. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Mindfulness in Law Society and coauthored "Mindfulness in the Heat of Conflict: Taking Stock," published in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, vol. 20. Wohl was previously the director of the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office and adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Law School. She received the Association for Conflict Resolution's Mary Parker Follett Award for Innovation. She co-chaired the ABA Dispute Resolution Section's Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality and was a founding board member of Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI). She is currently working on an MBBI capacity-building project in Cambodia.