Mindfulness-based Strategies for Managing Social Anxiety, Health Outcomes, and Success

Megan Lipsett, MA

Training Description

Mindfulness, a process of openly attending, with awareness, to one's present moment experiences, can improve mental and physical health outcomes. Mindfulness based interventions, including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy are increasingly being applied to support health, well-being, and success. An overview of mindfulness based practices, including definition, key mechanisms, and known impacts on psychophysiological, social, and achievement outcomes will be provided. We will discuss a variety of mindfulness-based approaches, as well as targeted mindset interventions. The potential for mindfulness-based practices to effect health risk behaviors, overall health, well-being, and social function will be discussed. Culturally-adapted and individualized mindfulness practices will be considered. We will consider the biopsychosocial mechanisms (e.g. neurobiological, immune, and self-regulatory processes) by which mindfulness practices impact development and health-relevant behaviors. The trainer will summarize and translate empirical literature, including the trainer’s research findings regarding mindfulness practices that are resilience-building and supportive of goal-attainment. We will explore the role of mindfulness in stress-reduction, with…