Mindfulness for Medical Students

A Program of Thrive and Awaken® for University Hospitals of Cleveland
Douglas J. Moore, Ph.D.
November & December 2017

This is a series of workshops designed specifically for medical students. Each session had a blend of instruction, experiencing mindfulness, and discussion in how to apply the methods personally and clinically. In addition, mindfulness was placed in the larger context of what it means to be thriving and living one’s potential.

Session 1: The Practice of Mindfulness

What is Mindfulness
The Relationship between Mindfulness and Meditation
Learning to Be Present While We are Doing
Various Applications of Mindfulness
Benefits and Risks
Experiencing Mindfulness
How Mindfulness is Salient in Change and Developing New Habits
Resources and Apps

Session 2: Mindfulness of the Mind

Overview of Surviving vs Thriving Mode
Training the Mind to be Focused & Concentrate
Expanding Our Capacity to be Open & Curious
Increasing Observational Skills and Acceptance

Session 3: Mindfulness of the Body

Mindful Breathing to Calm the Stress Reaction
How Mindfulness affects the Neurobiology of Emotions and Thoughts
Importance of Posture Awareness
Mindfulness in Sitting, Standing, Walking, & Exercise

Session 4: Mindfulness of Emotions

Emergence of Compassion, Gratitude, Kindness, Love & Awe
Working with Intense Emotions & Self-Regulation
Role of Mindfulness and Interpersonal Interactions
Integrating All the Forms of Mindfulness
Sustaining a Life-Long Practice

Thriving for Health Care Professionals

A Program of Thrive and Awaken® for the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital
Douglas J. Moore, Ph.D.
March, July & October 2017

This is a series of workshops designed to support staff in living and working within Thriving Mode while their patients and families are functioning in Survival Mode.

Balancing the Heart, Mind & Body
Cleveland Center for Conscious Living
August 22th 2015

Practice tools to stay grounded and centered in your body while clearing the mind and opening the heart. These are the practices necessary for developing presence, compassion, and wisdom.

It’s easy to be on automatic pilot, using our body to transport our head somewhere. We will experience a variety of methods to help us feel very grounded and in touch with our body or belly center while we sit, stand, and move. This is the foundation to feeling centered and present.

We will explore a variety of mindfulness and meditation techniques that help to focus and calm the mind. This workshop will be a place to learn these skills or enhance the practice you already have. Candace Pert, a neurobiologist, demonstrated that physiologically we have the brain receptors that make us “Wired for Joy”. The research on meditation has shown it helps to rewire the brain in a way that calms our fears and anxieties, to make room for the joy receptors to be expressed.

Once we feel centered in the moment and clear the mind, we are ready to open the heart and feel love, gratitude, joy, and awe. The researchers at Heart Math say, “The heart is a sensory organ and acts as a sophisticated information encoding and processing center that enables it to learn, remember, and make independent functional decisions.” The heart does more than just pump blood, it remembers. For example, people with heart transplants have reported on memories specific to the donor. In this workshop we will practice a variety of methods that support the intelligence of the heart to express compassion and love.

Join us in learning to Balance the Heart, Mind, and Body so you can experience the joy of living.

Come and experience yourself more fully!!!

Using True Thriving™ Practices to Activate Vibrant Health
American Holistic Medical Association, NE Ohio Chapter
Conscious Living Consortium
April 5th & 6th, 2014

Join us for this 2-day workshop/retreat to explore and experience 10 essential practices you can develop to create a life of True Thriving™. Vibrant health of the whole person goes beyond stress management, it centers on life-style shifts that allow us to truly thrive.

* Transform Your Emotions & Rewire Your Brain
* Experience Mindfulness, Meditation, Self-inquiry & More…
* Convert Reactive, Survival Based Habits into Thriving Skills
* Discover 9 Life Strategies Associated with the Enneagram
* Balance Foundational & Maladaptive Energies

Studies show that stress can worsen or increase the risk of conditions like obesity, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, depression, gastrointestinal problems, and asthma. Stress management techniques have been helpful with such conditions. However, the effects of stress management are limited until deeper life-style shifts are implemented that facilitate a vibrancy in health.

Drs. Corcoran and Moore have integrated the concepts of brain science, contemporary psychology & the wisdom of eastern methods into a comprehensive system that is foundational to our personal growth and transformation.

Come, explore your potential for True Thriving™.

This workshop is applicable to holistic practitioners and the general public interested in exploring how to truly thrive for vibrant health and not just get by in life.

Testimonial from Day 1:

“True Thriving™ helped me slow the world down and reconnect with myself. It helped me learn to be a better listener and to bring myself back to the present when my brain starts to drift. And most of al, it helped me to take notice of the victimization weed when it takes hold – and cut it at the root.” Kelsey M.

Journey in Loving Your Soul: Using the Enneagram to Uncover Your Spiritual Nature
Cleveland Center for Conscious Living & Studio-E
January 12th & 13th 2013

A Two-Day Overview of the Enneagram Focusing on How It Can Reveal the Essence of Our Soul

Use the Enneagram to:

Explore the pathway to your spiritual nature
Learn to truly thrive rather than just get by
Enhance skills to live more fully in your Soul’s Essence

The Essence of our Soul can be experienced in a variety of ways. These include:

• Deep Abiding Love for All
• Oneness with Life
• Effortlessness
• Expansiveness
• Perfection of Life as It is
  
  

We can have glimpses of these qualities and then return to our habitual everyday emotional and behavioral patterns. These patterns are influenced by our history, culture and personality style. The Enneagram is an amazing map of our personality styles and how each type is actually a doorway into our underlying spiritual nature.

This two-day workshop will focus on experiencing the different aspects of our Soul. We will discover how our personality type can lead us to more fully express Soul qualities, thus liberating the Soul to be a conscious daily expression.

Using Energy Medicine to Live from Your Spiritual Nature
Cleveland Center for Conscious Living
Februay 9, 2013

A One-Day Workshop Based on the IGEEM 2012 Presentation of Doug J Moore, Ph.D.

“Energy Medicine is the Next Frontier of Spiritual Awakening”
(D. Moore, IGEEM 2012)

The Essence of our Soul can be experienced in a variety of ways such as deep abiding love, oneness with life, interconnectedness with others, and a dynamic peace. We can have glimpses of these enlightened qualities, but often we quickly return to our habitual everyday emotional and behavioral patterns. Triple Warmer and other energies have learned to maintain these habits. Such energies also protect us from assaults induced by others, the environment, or even ourselves.

We are wired for fear, but we also have many brain receptors for joy. The fear associated with our fight, flight, freeze reaction keeps us in a survival pattern. We get frustrated, tired, and start to wonder: “How do I get unstuck?” or alternatively, “How do I thrive and live from a place of abundance?”

Participants will learn how Energy Medicine, Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Enneagram allow us to have more than just glimpses into enlightened qualities. We will discuss how Eden Energy Medicine methods can be used to shift us from a surviving to thriving way of being.

In addition, the 5 Rhythms and the Enneagram will reveal how personality traits obscure our spiritual nature from expressing its joy, clarity, and abundance. We will experience how each of the 5 Rhythms is a doorway into our spiritual nature and cycling through them is a path for awakening.

Integrating Energy Work into a Counseling Practice
EHOVE Adult Career Center, OH
Februrary 17, 2012

This day long workshop will provide an overview of both Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology methods that may be integrated into a counseling practice. Participants will have an opportunity to experience the methods and review the current research behind such interventions. Ethical considerations will also be discussed so participants can feel comfortable applying energy based methods in their practice.

Optimal Health in Holistic Medicine: The Role of Positive Psychology, Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology.
Ohio Health, Riverside Hospital
Dublin, OH
April 9, 2010

Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology: The New Frontier
Elizabeth Blackwell Center
Columbus, OH
June 6, 2008

What is the hype about Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology? Mehmet Oz, M.D., professor of surgery at Columbia University, has reported on Oprah that Energy Medicine is the new frontier of medicine. Norman Shealy, MD, the founding president of the American Holistic Medical Association, has predicted that “energy medicine is the future of medicine.”

To understand Energy Medicine, one can start with Einstein’s famous equation, E=MC2, which essentially teaches us that physical matter is a form of energy. Subsequent scientists, sparked by Einstein’s discoveries, have shown us that all ostensibly “solid” objects are comprised of vibrating molecules. Thus, all things, including our bodies, are waves and patterns of very tiny particles that have certain energetic properties.

For thousands of years, without the advantage of sophisticated scientific instruments, people across the world have developed ancient healing traditions based on the premise that the body is a living system of energy. Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology takes these ancient traditions and brings them into the 21st century to promote health and well-being.

Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology are based on the premise that emotional and physical illnesses result from disturbances in the body’s energies. Innovative methods have been developed do assess and balance the disruptions in these energies. Some of these methods are increasingly being used in integrated care departments in many hospitals.

This workshop will describe the energy systems (e.g., meridians, chakras, auras) that form the foundation of all energy methods. Specific ways to assess and balance the energies will be demonstrated.

Some of the research behind energy based methods will be reviewed as well as ethical and professional considerations for those wanting to use the methods to help others.

This workshop will be a blend of didactic and experiential opportunities. Participants may observe or participate. In either case, you will leave with a set of tools that you can immediately use to balance your own energies and foster your health and well-being.
In this workshop you will:

• Understand the premise underlying energy based methods.
• Learn the basic energy systems of the body.
• Review the research available for Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology.
• Experience a daily energy routine that balances many of the basic energies.
• Learn how to apply energy methods relevant to physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral concerns.
• Integrate energy methods into a cognitive-behavioral framework.
• Know how to apply energy methods ethically and professionally.