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SUMMARY:Urban Meditation Retreat w/Leveys for Health Care Providers/St
 udents (OPEN TO ALL)
DESCRIPTION:Our lives are the laboratory to refine our insight into th
 e inner physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of ourse
 lves.  As health care professionals, the depth of our wisdom is a ref
 lection of our experience as well as our knowledge. This integral urba
 n retreat is especially designed to support health care professionals 
 interested in meditation and medicine in deepening the foundations and
  dimensions of their wisdom and experience. The practice of integratin
 g meditation into the fabric of daily life, work, and relationships is
  a profound and creative discipline that benefits both ourselves and t
 hose we care for.  It is in many ways the ultimate creative art form.
 \nThis retreat is designed to help you better listen for the whispered
  warning signs of disease rather that wait for them to escalate into t
 he screams of full blown medical crisis.  As we learn to refine our a
 ttention to discern, understand, and have compassion for the emerging 
 subtle inklings of our own distress, anxiety, loneliness and boredom w
 e gain insight into these roots of dis-ease in others. And, as we come
  to more deeply embrace our clarity, radiance, mindful clear presence,
  peacefulness, loving kindness, gratitude and compassion we gain valua
 ble insight into the latent presence of these factors of mind and dime
 nsions of being in those we serve through our work as physicians, clin
 icians and healers.  By deepening our experiential, embodied wisdom t
 o discern a more refined spectrum of our lived human experience, we ex
 pand and refine our capacity to attune to the complex dimensionality o
 f our patients, coworkers, partners and ourselves with greater clarity
 , depth of reflection, empathy, compassion, effectiveness and intuitio
 n. 
 
This integrative retreat represents a unique and radical ex
 periment for learning to live and work with clear mindful presence and
  great compassion. As an intensive professional development opportunit
 y, it has a strong evidence-based curriculum shown to reduce stress in
  health care providers, increase their effectiveness, promote immuno-r
 esiliency, increase empathy and compassion, and promote the neural int
 egration necessary to function at high levels of health, well-being, p
 rofessional excellence and human potential. As an urban retreat, it in
 vites you to explore the possibilities for increasing your capacity to
  live with greater awareness, balance, change resilience, wisdom, and 
 creative compassion amidst the ever-changing circumstances of your lif
 e, work, studies, medical practice and world.\nThemes we will explore 
 include:\nPractices for cultivating mindful clear presence\nEnhancing 
 our capacity as health caring professionals to master stress, reduce m
 indlessness and enhance the quality of our lives, work  and professio
 nal care\nRefining attention/mindfulness to discern more subtleties of
  relevance in clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment\nTransformi
 ng ordinary activities (breathing, walking, talking, driving, eating, 
 performing diagnostic evaluations) into extraordinary skillful methods
  for awakening insights valuable to enhancing the quality of your prac
 tice and patient care.\nIntensive meditation instruction\nMindful dial
 ogue & the practice of deep listening\nThe simultaneous cultivation of
  wisdom & compassion\nEating meditations    \nWalking meditations\
 nDriving meditations\nListening to the news meditation\nEnlightening t
 hinking & reflective meditation\nShopping meditation\nChange resilienc
 e & living in flow\nUnderstanding & befriending your mind\nChoice, dis
 cernment, awareness & mindful decision-making\nMeditations for sleep, 
 dreams & awakening\nIntegrating meditation, daily life, work & relatio
 nships\nThe enlightening potentials of a dynamically creative contempl
 ative life-style\nLiving in dynamic balance\nGuidelines for daily medi
 tation practice\n\nFor more information visit http://www.compassionate
 seattle.org/events/urban-meditation-retreat-1
DTSTART;TZID=America/Dawson_Creek:20100911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Dawson_Creek:20100919T163000
CATEGORIES:non-residentail, retreat
LOCATION:Bastyr University
WEBSITE:http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged/calendar.asp?cid=%7B1949F97
 3-A5FA-42B0-A6AA-B480D940DA5C%7D
URL:http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged/calendar.asp?cid=%7B1949F973-A5
 FA-42B0-A6AA-B480D940DA5C%7D
CONTACT:http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged/calendar.asp?cid=%7B1949F97
 3-A5FA-42B0-A6AA-B480D940DA5C%7D
ORGANIZER:Bastyr University Center for Spirituality, Science, and Medi
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Joel Lev
 ey":http://www.compassionateseattle.org/profile/JoelLevey49
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