Mindfulness, the ability to be fully present, is essential for the skillful counselor. Methods for cultivating wakefulness within daily life situations are explored. Group practice sessions, lectures, discussions, and individual meditation instruction are provided. This course is designed to support students in continuing the practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation begun in PSY 621, Psychology of Meditation I . Specific topics include applications of mindful awareness to creativity, healing and social action.
Students meet in small groups for sitting and walking meditation sessions and discussion.
Individual meditation instruction is provided. Developing Compassion , 1cr. This course builds on the foundation provided by PSY 621, Psychology of Meditation I . Topics presented through lectures and reading deepen the understanding of essential principles of meditative awareness. The specific focus of the course is the way meditation can support the counseling relationship.