PROGRAM

Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Notes ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Colour formats ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Times ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Program............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Day one 15/11/2022 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Day Two 16/11/2022 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Day Three 17/11/2022 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Day Four 18/11/2022 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Conference retreat......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Stillness as a Path to Contemplative Discoveries....................................................................................................................................................................... 20

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Introduction

30/09/2022

A preliminary program was released a week in advance of the closure of the early-bird registration. This program version is a minor update ofthat. The program will continue to be refined through time. A final version, aside from last-minute changes, will include specific delivery times
and be available on 14th October.
All the content listed here, whether delivered recorded or live, is planned to be part of the conference; there may be additional content
particularly some more integrative content in strand five. There will be some rearrangement of times for at least three reasons:
1. To better align in-person presentations in Melbourne and Auckland;
2. To better align speaker time zones and availability;
3. To strengthen thematic coherence in sessions.
The draft program gives all potential participants an indication of the content and the span of contributions. Constructing such a program
involves some hard choices; to presenters we apologise if you find you have less time than you may have hoped for. If anyone had apresentation accepted that isn’t here, please let your strand lead know.
We believe this will be a broad, inclusive, and diverse, conference program which people can either sample during the conference live oraccess later and over time. Constructing such a program involves some hard choices; to presenters we apologise if you find you have less timethan you may have hoped for. If anyone had a presentation accepted that isn’t here, please email southern.synergy@monash.edu making
clear which strand it is and we’ll pass that on to the strand lead. The draft program gives all potential participants an indication of the content
and the span of contributions. We hope you find this useful, that you will attend the conference and that it will be a rich, rewarding andinformative experience for all involved.
Graham Meadows and Fran Shawyer for the Conference Organising and Program Committees

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Notes
Colour formats
Table 1 Colour key

Keynotes
Symposia
Workshops
Panels and ceremonies
Free papers
Posters
Practice session
Unclear/unallocated
Discussions
BreaksTimes
All times for Days 1,2 and 4 are AEDT time zone which is UTC+11. NZDT applies in Auckland which is UTC+ 13, Time information for day 3 includes AEDT and
NZDT.

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Program
Day one 15/11/2022
Table 1: Day 1 Tuesday 15 November (Monash hybrid day)

Location

Online and Monash Caulfield

Time

Strand1

0800-0845

2

3
4
Conference opening – Welcome to Country

0900-1000

4S4 (1): Launch Keynote
Susan Bögels.
Mindfulness to go:
Delivery of mindfulness ina changing world.

1000-1100

S1 (1): Launch Keynote
Eva Natanya.
Re-Encountering
Soteriology: The Questionof Ultimate
Transformation as
the Purpose of aContemplative Path.

11.00-11.15

Morning Tea Break

11.15-12.00

S1 Symposium 1
Woods, T., Lekshe, T.,
Berryman, K., McKinnon,
P.
Contentless Experiences:
What it is Like to Have
Them, and How Does One
Access Them? Scientific

S2 Free papers 1
White, L.
Nuancing
relationally complex
experiences in
mindfulness researchthrough embodied

S3 Symposium 1
Strohmaier, S., Bowles,
N., Zohar, S., Van Dam, N.
Too much or not enoughof a good thing? Exploring
dose-response inmindfulness andmeditation.

S4 Free papers 1
Mortimer, E., Tsourtos,G., De Zylva, R., Ward, P.
The Resilience
Interventions for Smoking
Cessation (‘RISC’) study:
Increasing resilience andreducing smoking for5

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Location

Online and Monash Caulfield

Time

Strand1
and Practitioner
Perspectives AcrossMeditation Traditions.

23methods.
Birtwell et al.
Exploring Mindfulness for
People from Areas ofSocioeconomic
Deprivation: a realist
review.

Xu, J-Q., & Chen, K. H. Y.
Effects of an eight-weekonline mindfulness
program on wellbeing inresearch postgraduate
students: preliminary
quantitative andqualitative results from arandomized controlled
trial.

Levy, N.
Toward a Critical
Mindfulness for All.
Meadows, G. et al.
Australia lacks effectively
universal mental healthcare - which is a problem
for providers andpotential consumers of
Mindfulness Based
Interventions.

Li, C. M., Chan, K., Mak,W.
Mindful FlourishingPromoting college
students’ mental wellbeing through cultivating
mindfulness with online
and offline approaches.
S4 Posters 1
Pierce, L.
Mindfulness with young
people Meaningfully.

12.00-12.45

5

12.45-1315

Lunch break

13.15-14.00

S1 Discussion 1
Guess, D.
Christian Meditation and
Ecological Living.

S2 Free papers 2
Woods, T.
Subjective Experiences ofCommitted Meditators

4
lower socio-economic
groups.

S3 Free papers 1
Hickey, T., et al.
Dismantling Mindfulness
and Compassion

S4 Symposium 1
McCaw, CT., Primdahl. N.,
Winky, L.

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Location

Online and Monash Caulfield

Time

Strand1

2
Across Practices Aiming
for Contentless States.
DeLys, S.
Smudging the Borderlinesof Mindfulness Research
Paradigms.

14.00-14.45

Torresi, T.
Decolonising Politics:
Buddhist Social
movements and Love as
Resistance.
Weerakoon, K.
Metta Gardening.
14.45-1500

Afternoon tea break

1500-1600

S1 Discussion 2
Peiris, I.
Is there a Present
Moment?

3
Interventions: What
Factors Impact
Outcomes?
Sevar, K., Mind Baby Body
(MBB) mindfulness-based
group program for
women with anxiety anddepression in pregnancy:
a pilot study.

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Critical Perspectives on
Mindfulness in Education:
What has been achieved,
what’s missing, andwhat’s next?

Pavlova, A., et al.
Co-designing compassioninterventions inhealthcare.

S5 Discussions
Sharlow, S.
Muslim-ChristianInterspiritualContemplative Practice.
Sanders, P.
Zen and Christian Practice

1600-1700

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S1 Discussion 3
Fitzgerald, R.,
Gertrude of Helfta on
Contemplation.

S2 Workshop 1
Brown, L. & Edwards, B.K.
Mindfulness & Spaces ofInequity – How We Can
do Better in Australia? -S3 Free papers 2
Shireen, S., et al.
A Body Scan Meditation
Reduces Negative Affectand Food Cravings in
Emotional Eaters: A

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Location

Online and Monash Caulfield

Time

Strand
1

2

3

4

5

Randomized Controlled
Study of the Effects,
Mediators, andModerators.
Wu, C., et al. The Effectsof Mindfulness,
Reappraisal on Personal
Growth Initiative and Selfforgiveness: A Pilot Study
Using Audio Guided
Reflection to EnhanceSelf-forgiveness.
Yu, B. C. L., et al.
Mediating Role of State
Nonattachment in the
Relationship between
State Mindfulness andMental Health: An
Ecological Momentary
Assessment.
1700-1715
17.15-18.15

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Evening refreshment break
S2: Symposium 1
DeLys, S., Warner, L.,
Fries, K., Wehner, K.,
Contemplative Artmaking:Social and EthicalPotentials.

S3: Symposium 2
Van Dam, N., Canby, N.
Davides, J., Cebolla, A.,
Galante, J.
(Chair/Discussant)Understanding unusualexperiences incontemplative practice.

Day 1 panel discussion

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Location

Online and Monash Caulfield

Time

Strand1

18.15-18.30
1900-21.30

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2

3

4

5

End of day practice dedication
Optional local evening
events TBD

PROGRAMDay Two 16/11/2022
Table 2: Day 2 Wednesday 16 November (online only)
Location

Online only

Time

Strand1

0800-0845

2

3

4

0900-1000

S3 (1): Day Keynote
Prof Katie Witkiewitz.
Mindfulness-Based
Interventions for
Substance Use Disorderand Addictive Behaviors.

1000-1100

S1 Discussion 4
McDougal, E.
Contemplative Learningand the Modern
Headspace.

11.00-11.15

Morning Tea Break

11.15-12.00

S1 Symposium 2
Lekshe, T., et al.
Living Your Dying – A
Guide to the Inevitable.

S4 Discussion 1
Fisher, L. & Offman, A.
Mindfulness in the age ofZoom.

S4 Brief papers 1
Wells, J.
Mindfulness
Contemplation for TimePoor 21st Century
Educators.
Hall, J., et al.
How do we measure
resilience in children aged
0-12? A systematic review

95Morning practice,
motivation

MiCBT Symposium
Cayoun, B., Shires, A.,
Francis, S., Shawyer, F.
“Weaving the strands
together: spiritual,ethical, clinical,
psychometric andtechnological facets of
Mindfulness-integrated

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Location

Online only

Time

Strand1

12.00-12.45

2

3

4
S4 Free papers 2
Listiyandini, R., et al.
A culturally adaptedinternet-delivered
mindfulness intervention
for Indonesian university
students: Outcome ofpilot trial.
Henning, M.
Mindfulness andTaijiquan: Implications forstudents’ learning andwellbeing in higher
education.
Dickson, C., et al.
Study protocol toinvestigate theacceptability,
appropriateness, andfeasibility of an online
mindfulness course forpeople diagnosed
with cancer - the OM-C
study.
Teo, C., et al.
Reflexivity in Mindfulness
Teaching and Research
Practice: A narrative
approach in the Design

105Cognitive Behavior
Therapy”.

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Location

Online only

Time

Strand12

3

4
and Implementation of an
Online Mindfulness
Training for Singapore
educators.

12.45-1315

Lunch break

13.15-14.00

S1 Free papers 1
Murphy, A.
The Psychotherapeutic
Value of the Five
Aggregates in
Mindfulness-based
Therapy.

14.00-14.45

Boxer, A.
How Mindfulness Based
Interventions Use
Mindfulness Compared to
Their Traditional Buddhist
Uses.
Piette-Yves, B.
Nurturing Compassion by
Expanding One’s
Understanding of
Selfhood Their Traditional
Buddhist Uses.
Whitehead, R., et al.
Do we need the self to be
happy?

S2 Workshop 1
David, J-M.
Meditation in Schools - an
improvement pathway.

S3 Free papers 3
Bartlett, L.
OMM: An observerreport questionnaire
about mindful behaviours– what would you use it
for and how would it
work?
Vainre, M., et al.
The Work Engagement
and Well-being Study(SWELL): A randomised
controlled feasibility trial
evaluating the effects ofmindfulness versus lightphysical exercise at work.
Tong, A., et al.
Nonattachment at workon well-being among
working adults in Hong
Kong.

Davies, J.

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S4 Workshop 1
Rix, G.
The past, present andfuture of Pause Breathe
Smile: Celebrating a 10year journey of
implementing
mindfulness in New
Zealand schools.

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Location

Online only

Time

Strand12

3

4

Is mindfulness just aplacebo? Current
evidence and future
considerations.
Bailey, N.
How to study mindfulness
using EEG.
14.45-1500

Afternoon tea break

1500-1600

S1 (2): Mid-conference
KeynoteStephen Batchelor.
Title to be advised.
S1 Workshop 1
Change, R.
Revitalizing Goldberg’s
Mindful Writing Practiceas a Zen Arts Practice.

1600-1700

S2 Free papers 3
Chang, R.
Creative writers'
experiences of anespecially tailored
mindfulness course.
Bartos, LJ. et al.
Effectiveness of the
CRAFT Program versus
Active Controls for
Increasing Mindfulness
Skills and Well-Being
Amongst Student
Musicians During
Pandemic Times.

1700-1715
17.15-18.15

12

Evening refreshment breakS2 (1): Day Keynote

S4 Discussion 2
Hohwy, J. & Hassed, C.
Recreating theContemplative University.

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Location

Online only

Time

Strand1

2
Rebecca Crane.
Are our MindfulnessBased Programcurriculums up to thetask?

18.15-18.30

13

End of day practice dedication

3

4

5

PROGRAMDay Three 17/11/2022
Table 3: Day 3 Thursday 17 November (Auckland hybrid day)
Location

Online and Auckland

Time
NZDT/AEDT
09.00-10.00/07.00-08.00

Strand12

1000-1100/08.00-09.00

4

5

S3 (2): Mid-conference
KeynoteWilloughby Britton.
Meditation-related
adverse effects:
identification,mechanisms andmitigation.

11.00-12.00/09.00-10.00

S2 (2): Mid-conference
KeynoteJan Willis.
Contemplative Practiceand Sacred Activism: The
Practice of Nonviolence
for Social Transformation.

12.00-12.20/11.00-1120

Lunch Break 1

12.20-13.20/10.20-11.20

S1 Free papers 2
Chacko, E., et al.
Adapting Mindfulnessbased interventions forthe mental health needsof Pacific people in
Auckland, New Zealand.

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3

Morning practice,
motivation

S2 Free papers 4
Berryman. K., & Hohwy.
J.,
Does Meditation Make us
Moral?
Cha, J. et al.
Do differences in personalvalues mediate the link

S3 Free papers 4Sik, H. T., et al.
Development andValidation of the
Mindfulness-Discernment
Scale.
Kerslake, A., et al.

Integrative Symposium
TBD

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Location

Online and Auckland

Time
NZDT/AEDT

Strand1
Raman, K., et al.
Cross-Cultural
Generalizability of Five
Facet Mindfulness
Questionnaire in the
Indian Context.
Wang, T.
The Application of
Mindfulness Training in a
Chinese Secondary
School: an interview
survey of mindfulness
training instructors andschool teachers.

2

3

between self-compassion
and compassion forothers?

An evaluation of amindfulness meditationbased program forpatients in a primary
healthcare setting.
Chacko, E., Adapting
Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy for themental health needs offamily carers of people
living with dementia in
Aotearoa New Zealand.
Brief 1:
Zhang, Y., et al.
Exploring the Relation of
Mindful Communication
and Cooperative
Orientation: The
Mediating Roles of Three
Emotion Regulation
Strategies.
Brief 2:
Ho, F., et al.
Interaction of equanimity
and self-compassion oncompassion to others Experimental
Investigation.

15

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5

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Location

Online and Auckland

Time
NZDT/AEDT

Strand1

2

3

4

13.20-14.20/11.20-12.20

14.20-14.40/12.20-12.40

Lunch break 2

14.40-15.25/12.40-13.25

S1 Discussion 5
14:40-15.10/12:40-13:10
Huxter, M.
Principles and practices of
Buddhism in relationshipto mental health.

S2 Free papers/poster 5
Siegert, R., et al
Correlates of Compassionin Young Pacific Island
Adults During the COVID19 Pandemic.

S1 Workshop 2
15.10-16.10/13:50-14:10
Marburg, M.
Writing Poetry as aContemplative
Transformative Practice.

Zhang, D., et al.
Online integrated
mindfulness-meaning
programme fordepression and anxiety
during COVID-19: A pilot
randomized controlled
trial.

15.25-16.10/13.25-14.10

Yu, B.C.L. et al.
Mediating Role of State
Nonattachment in the
Relationship between
State Mindfulness andMental Health: An
Ecological Momentary
Assessment.

16

5
S5 (1): Day Keynote
Nirbhay Singh.
Current and Future
Research in Mindfulness:
An Editor’s Personal
Perspective.

S3 Workshop 1
Korevaar, D.
Psychedelics – Hype or
Hope.

S4 Workshop 2
Hassed, C.
The Art and Practice ofIntroducing Mindfulness
into Core Curriculum.

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Location

Online and Auckland

Time

StrandNZDT/AEDT

1

2

3

4

5

Wang, M. Expert
Meditators Show
Enhanced Interaction
Between Brain and Heart
Functioning (poster).
15.25-15.45/13.25-13.45

Tea break

15.45-16.45/13.45-14.45

S1 Day Keynote
Vicki Clark.
The Woven Spirit.

16.45-17.00/14.45-1500

Refreshment break

17.00-18.00/1500-1600

1800-18.30/1600-1700
18.30 -19.00/16.30-17.00
1900-21.30/(N/A)

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S5 (2): Mid-conference
KeynoteChris Krageloh.
"Jingle or jangle? Rethinking terminology inmindfulness research".
Day 3 conference panel
End of day practice dedication
Local optional social event TBA

PROGRAMDay Four 18/11/2022
Table 4: Day 4 Friday 18 November (Uni Melb hybrid day)
Location

Online and University of Melbourne

Time

Strand1

0800-0845

2

0900-1000

S3 (3): Closing Keynote
Norm Farb.
Order, Chaos, andMeaning:
A Neuroscientific Tale ofMeditation in Three Parts.

1000-1100

S2 (3): Closing Keynote
David Loy.
Mindfulness in a
Dangerous Time:
The New Bodhisattva
Path.

11.00-11.15

Morning Tea Break

11.15-12.00
12.00-12.45

S1 Conversation 6
Natanya, E.,Hide, K.,
Fitzgerald, R. (Facilitator)
Contemplation andCompassion:
Transformative Capacities
for our World.

12.45-1315

Lunch break

18

3Morning practice,
motivation

S2 Workshop 2
Lewis, J. & Strom, M.
Practicing mindful
AntiRacism.

S3 Symposium 3
Galante, J., Vainre, J.,
Hitchcock, C., Goldberg, S.
Systematic reviews andmeta-analyses ofmindfulness trials: a
discussion on
methodologicalchallenges and solutions.

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Location

Online and University of Melbourne

Time

Strand1

13.15-14.00
14.00-14.45

2

3

S1 Discussion withexperiential practices 7
Venerable Sujato.
Mindfulness Won’t Stop
the Apocalypse.

45

S4 Discussion 3
Bartlett, L., Berryman, K.
& Cayoun, B.
Perspectives from a
Monk, a Researcher and a
Clinician on learning andpractising mindfulness
using online technologies.

S5 (3): End - Conference
Keynote and Discussion
Nicholas Van Dam andGraham Meadows.
13.15-14.15
Innovation,
implementation andimpact; a consideration of
the state of translational
research in the
Mindfulness Based
Interventions.
14.15-14.45
Round table discussion
and reflection on thestate of contemporary
empirical research in thefield.

14.45-1500

Afternoon tea break

1500-1600

S4 (2): Closing Keynote
Samuel YS Wong.
(12-1 pm Hong Kong
time)
Cultivating mindfulness
through medical
education and healthcare
settings.

1600-1630

S3 (4): Closing & end of
Conference Keynote

1630-1700

Closing ceremony and ending practice19

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Location

Online and University of Melbourne

Time

Strand1

2

3
Conference close

Conference retreat
Stillness as a Path to Contemplative Discoveries
Optional Conference extra, see website for details and registration.
https://www.icmmelbourne2022.org/retreat20

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