Teaching Mindfulness

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Thank you for visiting our page for the supplemental handouts and worksheets for our book “A Clinician’s Guide To Teaching Mindfulness”. We hope you find them useful for your classes.

HANDOUTS:

  • RAIN The RAIN acronym is a classic for working with challenging emotions: Recognize, Allow, Investigate with kindness, Non-identification. We love Tara Brach’s version, which we share with you here. You can also share the following YouTube link with students:

  • STAFF IN SERVICE Practical tips on how to conduct a in-service for staff to raise awareness about mindfulness (and encourage referrals).
  • S-T-O-P HANDOUT Another classic mindfulness acronym: Stop (become aware), Take a breath, Observe (what’s going on), Proceed. Here is the link for another YouTube link on STOP:

  • URGE SURFING Developed by Alan Marlatt for working with urges to prevent addiction relapse, this practice is useful for anybody with any kind of urges and impulses.
  • CHAIR YOGA HANDOUT (9 pages, 42MB) This is a practical handout from www.livingwordsofwisdom.com. This can be used with many populations. Please always err on the side of caution when guiding movement practices.

WORKSHEETS:

  • A homework log can be a useful tool to enhance accountability.
  • Practicing the RAIN acronym (Recognize, Allow, Investigate with kindness, Non-identification) is often a challenge. We have created with worksheet so class participants can write the different steps down and take their time to reflect and explore.

 

SAMPLE EMAILS TO CLASS FOR EACH SESSION:

Introduction to E-mail Templates

We have included an e-mail template to send to class participants after each class. These e-mails contain a brief review of the class, a reminder about the homework, and a mindfulness teaching tip directly related to the contents of the related course.Should we take generic or original drugs. Part 2

When working with clinical populations, carefully review your specific procedures about the use of e-mail communication with patients. It may not be appropriate to correspond via email, as once patients have email access they may wish to communicate with clinicians via e-mail, and this may not be considered a secure means of communication for protected health information in your setting.