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| Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program |
The MBSR program is designed to guide you in using your innate abilities to more effectively
work with stress, pain, and illness. Training in mindfulness helps develop insight into
stressful situations that usually inhibit people from responding as successfully as they are
capable. This life-affirming program is for people who have work, family or financial stress,
or who experience anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbances, GI distress, high blood
pressure, or chronic pain and illness.
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) is an eight-week program that will
assist you in managing stress, illness, and pain. Mindfulness, a highly refined, systematic
use of attention and concentration – a universal human capacity you can develop further.
The mindfulness-based stress reduction program is interactive, engaging you in practical
activities to that enable you to bring mindfulness to the stress, pain, or illness in your life.
MBSR was developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts
Medical Center in 1979. The program has been successfully completed by over 16,000
people there and is now offered at over some 200 hospitals, clinics, and universities
worldwide. MBSR is one of the most effective and widely researched stress management
programs available today.
MBSR has been proven effective for managing
- Stress – job, family, relationships, financial, and health
- High blood pressure and hypertension
- Anxiety
- Chronic Pain and illness
- GI distress
- Fatigue and headaches
Many people are referred to this program by their doctor or decide to participate
themselves because they are not feeling well and want to participate more fully in their
health.
This life-affirming program includes …
Guided instructions in mindfulness practices
Gentle stretching and mindful yoga
Activities to enhance awareness in everyday life
Group dialogue and support (this is not group therapy)
Daily home practices
Supporting materials, tapes, and workbook
Tuition and materials price available upon request
The program, participants, and facilitator create a safe, supportive, and deeply engaging
learning environment. For further information about the MBSR program please feel free to
call 706-543-0162 or e-mail the class facilitator Mike Healy at mfhealy@bellsouth.net
MBSR Program Details
Mindfulness, in essence, is a highly refined, systematic "attentional" strategy aimed at
developing both calmness of mind and body. Mindfulness develops deep insight into an
array of mental and physical conditions that inhibit one’s capacity to respond effectively and
pro-actively in demanding, highly charged situations, as well as in more commonplace
everyday activities. Mindfulness, our innate capacity to flexibly and fluidly pay attention from
moment-to-moment, is a universal human capacity. The mindfulness-based stress reduction
program is interactive and seeks to engage you in practical activities to enhance learning.
MBSR Program
This program is based on the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts
Medical Center. The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program has been successfully
utilized with appropriate modifications in a number of other medical centers, as well as non-
medical settings such as schools, professional programs, athletic training programs, prisons,
and the workplace worldwide.
Founded by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, the Stress Reduction Clinic has been featured in the
Bill Moyer’s’ PBS documentary Healing and the Mind, on NBC Dateline, on ABC’s Chronicle
and in various national print media and is the subject of Kabat-Zinn’s best-selling book, Full
Catastrophe Living and Saki Santorelli’s Heal Thy Self. Since the inception of MBSR, more
than 16,000 people have completed the eight-week program at the University of
Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic, and many others have completed the program at
200 centers worldwide.
Published Research Results
Published research from the Stress Reduction Clinic documents that a majority of
participants report a lasting decrease in both physical and psychological symptoms. The
majority of participants report an increased ability to relax, greater energy and enthusiasm
for life, improved self-esteem, an increased ability to cope more effectively with both short-
term and long-term stressful situations, as well as major positive changes in health
attitudes and behaviors. Pain levels also improve and people learn to cope better with
chronic pain. In addition, the perception of self, self in relationship to others and self in
relationship to the larger environment is experienced with more clarity and understanding.
These findings are consistent with a larger body of both quantitative and qualitative
research on the effects of meditation.
Who Is this Program For?
People participate in this program for a variety of reasons: job, family, or financial stress;
anxiety and panic; sleep disturbances; fatigue, GI distress; high blood pressure, chronic
pain and illness, and headaches. This is a life-affirming program in conscious living. This
highly participatory, practical program includes: guided instruction in mindfulness meditation
practices, informal meditation strategies, inquiry activities that enhance awareness in
everyday life, individually tailored instruction, group dialogue, and daily home assignments.
Although this program is a relatively short intervention of eight weeks, life-long learning is
fostered. This program offers an immediate and deliberate shift in one’s health orientation
as well as instructions and references to encourage a continued deepening of
understanding of this shift and the techniques explored in this program.
Key Characteristics of the Program
• A fundamental component of good medical care
• Intensive training in mindfulness meditation
• An educational orientation
• Group format
• Experiential, highly participatory format
• Highly challenging and strongly supportive
• Self-responsibility emphasized within the context of a collaborative relationship
between participant and facilitator
• Array of mindfulness methods to meet individual participant needs and learning styles
• Interactive facilitator and participant initiated dialogue and inquiry intended to
explore perceptions, mental and behavioral habits and patterns that may be inhibiting
learning, growth, and healing
• The structure is intended to foster participant self-regulation and self-reliance
• Life-long learning: This program is 1) designed to foster an immediate and deliberate
shift in health orientation and 2) is a method for enhancing health and well being across the
life span.
Facilitator/Instructor
Mike Healy, Ed.D. has practiced meditation for 30 years, 21 years of which has been
Mindfulness Meditation, and has taught this program for several years at the University of
Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Athens Mind Body Institute.
Healy has participated in a seven-day professional training program under the direction of
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder, and Dr. Saki Santorelli, director of the Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction Clinic (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; has
completed the Teacher Development Intensive at the University of Massachusetts Center
for Mindfulness; and has had additional training attending multi-day mindfulness meditation
retreats. Healy completed a doctorate in Adult Education at the University of Georgia,
studying the mindfulness meditation transformational learning process.
Resources
Mindfulness meditation and body scan tapes available at www.mindfulnesstapes.com
Mind Body Institute - additional mind body practices
Healing Arts Center, Prince Ave. – mindfulness sitting Tuesdays from 7:30 – 9pm
Red Lotus Institute, 2080 Prince Ave. Athens, 706.549.2913
Southern Dharma Retreat Center -- http://www.main.nc.us/SDRC/
Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA – http://www.dharma.org/ims.htm
OMEGA —Holistic Learning Centers Contact: http://www.eomega.org
Center for Mindfulness, Worcester, MA – Phone: 508.856.2656
http://www.deeshan.com (Meditation tips for the day)
Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the
guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough
investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well being of yourself and others.
Eastern Philosopher
References
Joseph Goldstein (1976). The Experience of Insight: A Natural Unfolding. Santa Cruz, CA:
Unity Press.
Mike Healy (2001). The Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Transformational Learning Process: A
Phenomenological Study .Ed.D. Dissertation. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990). Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to
Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. New York: Dell Publishing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994). Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday
Life. New York: Hyperion.
Jack Kornfield (1993). A Path With Heart. New York: Bantam Books.
Jack Kornfield (2000). After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. New York: Bantam Books.
Krishnamurti (1972). The Flight of the Eagle. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler (1998). The Art of Happiness. New York: Penguin Putnam.
Mary Rose O’Reilley (1998). Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice.
Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Sharon Salzberg (1995). LovingKindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Boston,
Shambhala Publications.
Saki Santorelli (1999). Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine. New York: Bell
Tower.
Research References
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1982). An out-patient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain
patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: Theoretical considerations and
preliminary results. General Hospital Psychiatry, 4, 33-47.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1993). Mindfulness meditation: Health benefits of an ancient Buddhist
practice. In D. Goleman & J. Gurin (Eds.), Mind/Body medicine. Yonkers: Consumer Reports
Books.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Chapman, A., & Salmon, P. G. (1997). Relationship of cognitive and somatic
components of anxiety to patient preference for different relaxation techniques. Mind/Body
Medicine, 2(3), 101-109.
Kabat-Zinn, J., & Chapman-Waldrop, A. (1988). Compliance with an outpatient stress
reduction program: Rates and predictors of completion. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11,
333-352.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., & Burney, R. (1985). The clinical use of mindfulness meditation
for the self-regulation of chronic pain. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 8(2), 163-189.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., Burney, R., & Sellers, W. (1986). Four-year follow-up of a
meditation-based program for the self-regulation of chronic pain: Treatment outcomes and
compliance. Clinical Journal of Pain, 2, 159-173.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A., Kristeller, J., Peterson, L. G., Fletcher, K., Pbert, L., Lenderking,
W., & Santorelli, S. F. (1992). Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction program
in the treatment of anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 936-943.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A. O., Hebert, J. R., & Rosenbaum, E. (1998). Meditation. In J. C.
Holland (Ed.), Textbook on psycho-oncology (pp. 767-779). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Wheeler, E., Light, T., Skillings, A., Scharf, M., Cropley, T., Hosmer, D., &
Bernhard, J. (1998). Influence of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction
intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis
undergoing phototherapy (UVB) and photochemotherapy (PUVA). Psychosomatic
Medicine, 60, 625-632.
Miller, J., Fletcher, K., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (1995). Three-year follow-up and clinical implications
of a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
General Hospital Psychiatry, 17, 192-200.
Salmon, P. G., Santorelli, S. F., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (1998). Intervention elements promoting
adherence to mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in the clinical behavioral
medicine setting. In S. A. Shumaker & E. Schron & J. Ockene & W. McBee (Eds.), Handbook
of health behavior change (2nd ed., pp. 239-266): Springer.
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time.
T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets
work with stress, pain, and illness. Training in mindfulness helps develop insight into
stressful situations that usually inhibit people from responding as successfully as they are
capable. This life-affirming program is for people who have work, family or financial stress,
or who experience anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbances, GI distress, high blood
pressure, or chronic pain and illness.
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) is an eight-week program that will
assist you in managing stress, illness, and pain. Mindfulness, a highly refined, systematic
use of attention and concentration – a universal human capacity you can develop further.
The mindfulness-based stress reduction program is interactive, engaging you in practical
activities to that enable you to bring mindfulness to the stress, pain, or illness in your life.
MBSR was developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts
Medical Center in 1979. The program has been successfully completed by over 16,000
people there and is now offered at over some 200 hospitals, clinics, and universities
worldwide. MBSR is one of the most effective and widely researched stress management
programs available today.
MBSR has been proven effective for managing
- Stress – job, family, relationships, financial, and health
- High blood pressure and hypertension
- Anxiety
- Chronic Pain and illness
- GI distress
- Fatigue and headaches
Many people are referred to this program by their doctor or decide to participate
themselves because they are not feeling well and want to participate more fully in their
health.
This life-affirming program includes …
Guided instructions in mindfulness practices
Gentle stretching and mindful yoga
Activities to enhance awareness in everyday life
Group dialogue and support (this is not group therapy)
Daily home practices
Supporting materials, tapes, and workbook
Tuition and materials price available upon request
The program, participants, and facilitator create a safe, supportive, and deeply engaging
learning environment. For further information about the MBSR program please feel free to
call 706-543-0162 or e-mail the class facilitator Mike Healy at mfhealy@bellsouth.net
MBSR Program Details
Mindfulness, in essence, is a highly refined, systematic "attentional" strategy aimed at
developing both calmness of mind and body. Mindfulness develops deep insight into an
array of mental and physical conditions that inhibit one’s capacity to respond effectively and
pro-actively in demanding, highly charged situations, as well as in more commonplace
everyday activities. Mindfulness, our innate capacity to flexibly and fluidly pay attention from
moment-to-moment, is a universal human capacity. The mindfulness-based stress reduction
program is interactive and seeks to engage you in practical activities to enhance learning.
MBSR Program
This program is based on the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts
Medical Center. The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program has been successfully
utilized with appropriate modifications in a number of other medical centers, as well as non-
medical settings such as schools, professional programs, athletic training programs, prisons,
and the workplace worldwide.
Founded by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, the Stress Reduction Clinic has been featured in the
Bill Moyer’s’ PBS documentary Healing and the Mind, on NBC Dateline, on ABC’s Chronicle
and in various national print media and is the subject of Kabat-Zinn’s best-selling book, Full
Catastrophe Living and Saki Santorelli’s Heal Thy Self. Since the inception of MBSR, more
than 16,000 people have completed the eight-week program at the University of
Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic, and many others have completed the program at
200 centers worldwide.
Published Research Results
Published research from the Stress Reduction Clinic documents that a majority of
participants report a lasting decrease in both physical and psychological symptoms. The
majority of participants report an increased ability to relax, greater energy and enthusiasm
for life, improved self-esteem, an increased ability to cope more effectively with both short-
term and long-term stressful situations, as well as major positive changes in health
attitudes and behaviors. Pain levels also improve and people learn to cope better with
chronic pain. In addition, the perception of self, self in relationship to others and self in
relationship to the larger environment is experienced with more clarity and understanding.
These findings are consistent with a larger body of both quantitative and qualitative
research on the effects of meditation.
Who Is this Program For?
People participate in this program for a variety of reasons: job, family, or financial stress;
anxiety and panic; sleep disturbances; fatigue, GI distress; high blood pressure, chronic
pain and illness, and headaches. This is a life-affirming program in conscious living. This
highly participatory, practical program includes: guided instruction in mindfulness meditation
practices, informal meditation strategies, inquiry activities that enhance awareness in
everyday life, individually tailored instruction, group dialogue, and daily home assignments.
Although this program is a relatively short intervention of eight weeks, life-long learning is
fostered. This program offers an immediate and deliberate shift in one’s health orientation
as well as instructions and references to encourage a continued deepening of
understanding of this shift and the techniques explored in this program.
Key Characteristics of the Program
• A fundamental component of good medical care
• Intensive training in mindfulness meditation
• An educational orientation
• Group format
• Experiential, highly participatory format
• Highly challenging and strongly supportive
• Self-responsibility emphasized within the context of a collaborative relationship
between participant and facilitator
• Array of mindfulness methods to meet individual participant needs and learning styles
• Interactive facilitator and participant initiated dialogue and inquiry intended to
explore perceptions, mental and behavioral habits and patterns that may be inhibiting
learning, growth, and healing
• The structure is intended to foster participant self-regulation and self-reliance
• Life-long learning: This program is 1) designed to foster an immediate and deliberate
shift in health orientation and 2) is a method for enhancing health and well being across the
life span.
Facilitator/Instructor
Mike Healy, Ed.D. has practiced meditation for 30 years, 21 years of which has been
Mindfulness Meditation, and has taught this program for several years at the University of
Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Athens Mind Body Institute.
Healy has participated in a seven-day professional training program under the direction of
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder, and Dr. Saki Santorelli, director of the Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction Clinic (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; has
completed the Teacher Development Intensive at the University of Massachusetts Center
for Mindfulness; and has had additional training attending multi-day mindfulness meditation
retreats. Healy completed a doctorate in Adult Education at the University of Georgia,
studying the mindfulness meditation transformational learning process.
Resources
Mindfulness meditation and body scan tapes available at www.mindfulnesstapes.com
Mind Body Institute - additional mind body practices
Healing Arts Center, Prince Ave. – mindfulness sitting Tuesdays from 7:30 – 9pm
Red Lotus Institute, 2080 Prince Ave. Athens, 706.549.2913
Southern Dharma Retreat Center -- http://www.main.nc.us/SDRC/
Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA – http://www.dharma.org/ims.htm
OMEGA —Holistic Learning Centers Contact: http://www.eomega.org
Center for Mindfulness, Worcester, MA – Phone: 508.856.2656
http://www.deeshan.com (Meditation tips for the day)
Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the
guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough
investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well being of yourself and others.
Eastern Philosopher
References
Joseph Goldstein (1976). The Experience of Insight: A Natural Unfolding. Santa Cruz, CA:
Unity Press.
Mike Healy (2001). The Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Transformational Learning Process: A
Phenomenological Study .Ed.D. Dissertation. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990). Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to
Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. New York: Dell Publishing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994). Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday
Life. New York: Hyperion.
Jack Kornfield (1993). A Path With Heart. New York: Bantam Books.
Jack Kornfield (2000). After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. New York: Bantam Books.
Krishnamurti (1972). The Flight of the Eagle. New York: Harper & Row Publishers.
Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler (1998). The Art of Happiness. New York: Penguin Putnam.
Mary Rose O’Reilley (1998). Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice.
Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Sharon Salzberg (1995). LovingKindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Boston,
Shambhala Publications.
Saki Santorelli (1999). Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine. New York: Bell
Tower.
Research References
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1982). An out-patient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain
patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: Theoretical considerations and
preliminary results. General Hospital Psychiatry, 4, 33-47.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1993). Mindfulness meditation: Health benefits of an ancient Buddhist
practice. In D. Goleman & J. Gurin (Eds.), Mind/Body medicine. Yonkers: Consumer Reports
Books.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Chapman, A., & Salmon, P. G. (1997). Relationship of cognitive and somatic
components of anxiety to patient preference for different relaxation techniques. Mind/Body
Medicine, 2(3), 101-109.
Kabat-Zinn, J., & Chapman-Waldrop, A. (1988). Compliance with an outpatient stress
reduction program: Rates and predictors of completion. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11,
333-352.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., & Burney, R. (1985). The clinical use of mindfulness meditation
for the self-regulation of chronic pain. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 8(2), 163-189.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., Burney, R., & Sellers, W. (1986). Four-year follow-up of a
meditation-based program for the self-regulation of chronic pain: Treatment outcomes and
compliance. Clinical Journal of Pain, 2, 159-173.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A., Kristeller, J., Peterson, L. G., Fletcher, K., Pbert, L., Lenderking,
W., & Santorelli, S. F. (1992). Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction program
in the treatment of anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 936-943.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A. O., Hebert, J. R., & Rosenbaum, E. (1998). Meditation. In J. C.
Holland (Ed.), Textbook on psycho-oncology (pp. 767-779). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kabat-Zinn, J., Wheeler, E., Light, T., Skillings, A., Scharf, M., Cropley, T., Hosmer, D., &
Bernhard, J. (1998). Influence of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction
intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis
undergoing phototherapy (UVB) and photochemotherapy (PUVA). Psychosomatic
Medicine, 60, 625-632.
Miller, J., Fletcher, K., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (1995). Three-year follow-up and clinical implications
of a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
General Hospital Psychiatry, 17, 192-200.
Salmon, P. G., Santorelli, S. F., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (1998). Intervention elements promoting
adherence to mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in the clinical behavioral
medicine setting. In S. A. Shumaker & E. Schron & J. Ockene & W. McBee (Eds.), Handbook
of health behavior change (2nd ed., pp. 239-266): Springer.
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time.
T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets