Learning to Breathe: A Summer Mindfulness Experience for Adolescents (11-14 years old)

Hosted by the Program on Integrative Medicine

Mindfulness is the practice of becoming aware of one's present-moment experience with compassion and openness as a basis for wise action. This curriculum is intended to strengthen attention and emotion regulation, cultivate wholesome emotions like gratitude and compassion, expand the repertoire of stress management skills, and help participants integrate mindfulness into daily life.

What are the program goals?

• To provide universal, developmentally appropriate mindfulness instruction that fosters mental health and wellness.
• To enhance emotion awareness and emotion management skills and to foster wholesome emotional balance.
• To strengthen attention.
• To expand the repertoire of skills for stress management.
• To help students integrate mindfulness into everyday life.

Based on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and tailored to adolescents, the empirically-based curriculum for this course, entitled Learning to BREATHE, was developed by mindfulness expert/clinical psychologist Dr. Patricia Broderick and has been endorsed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Research in mindfulness indicates that this program may help students improve focus, enhance self-confidence, and provide a basis for developing positive coping and time-management skills.

"These skills can help teenagers navigate effectively through a time in life that can be confusing, filled with uncertainties, and exceedingly stressful. These life-skills form the basis for building successful relationships, beginning with oneself." Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR, from forward of Learning to BREATHE.

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Sessions are 3 hours, daily from Monday through Thursday, please have your teen bring a brown-bag lunch

Class Dates: Monday, June 24 through Thursday, June 27, 2019

Time: 11:00 am-2:00 pm

Instructors: Kate Murphy and Aviva Scully

Location: New Creation United Methodist Church, 4705 Old Chapel Hill Rd., Durham NC 27707

Fee: $300 General Public | $150 Repeat Participants

Both Check and Credit Card will be accepted.

Checks can be made out to PMR/Medical Fund, & on Memo line, write

"Mindfulness"

Please send Checks to:

Mindfulness Course

Program on Integrative Medicine

CB# 7200, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7200

Refund policy

Before the start of first class, full refund minus $75.00 handling fee

After 1st class, no refunds

NOTE: If you have any of the following issues listed below that would present additional challenges in taking the class, please call 919-966-8586 to speak with an instructor prior to registering for the course.

• Hospitalization within the last 6 months for any psychiatric reasons

• Medically unstable situation

• Problem with alcohol or drug abuse

• Anger management issues that could potentially be disruptive to the group

• Suicidal fantasies

For more information, please call 919-966-8586 or email mindfulness@med.unc.edu

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