All Excerpts Taken From Dr. Dzung Vu’s Website Mindfulness All Excerpts Taken From Dr. Dzung Vu’s Website http://mindfulnessforteens.com/dzung-vo/dr-dzung-vo/ THE MINDFUL PROVIDER: CULTIVATING RESILIENCE AND MINDFUL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CARING FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS Dzung X. Vo MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He co-developed (with Dr. Jake Locke at BC Children’s Hospital) a mindfulness-training program called Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents to help them thrive in the face of stress and adversity. Dr. Richard Kreipe is past-president of SAHM, co-editor of the Textbook of Adolescent Health Care, and faculty mentor to The Mindful Medical Student project at the University of Rochester.  He teaches mindfulness to health care trainees from a variety of disciplines and departments at the University of Rochester.

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is all about paying attention to the present moment on purpose & nonjudgmentally Shifting out of autopilot and awakening to the here and now Being freed from regrets about the past and worries about the future

What is Mindfulness? A few other ways of describing mindfulness include Awareness Awakening Concentration plus attention Seeing clearly Compassionate awareness Openheartedness Being present Loving presence

Breathing: The Heart of Mindfulness Bringing awareness to your breath The foundation of all mindfulness practices Known as “coming back to your breath” Is a wonderful gift that brings the mind and body together in the here and now Can help relieve stress with as few as three mindful breaths You breathe in and out about twenty thousand times a day. How many of those breaths are you consciously aware of? How many of those breaths do you really enjoy? If you’re like most people, the answer is “not many.”

The Mindful Provider Pressing concerns in the field of adolescent health care service delivery Provider burnout (emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion) Compassion fatigue (repeated exposure to & involvement in the suffering and pain of the patients and families we serve) Mindfulness is an effective tool for self-care promoting Clinician resilience, health and well-being Non-judgmental self awareness of emotions & unconscious biases THE MINDFUL PROVIDER: CULTIVATING RESILIENCE AND MINDFUL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Provider burnout and secondary trauma are pressing concerns in the field of adolescent and young adult health care service delivery.  Whereas burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, closely-related secondary trauma (also called compassion fatigue) is caused by repeated exposure to, and involvement in, the suffering and pain of the patients and families we serve. The capacity for health providers to stay healthy, balanced, and present in the face of intense professional challenges is critical for providers to be able to provide and sustain the kind of compassionate, youth-centered care for which we all strive. Mindfulness is paying attention in a particular way: On purpose, in the present moment, without analysis, criticism or judgment.  Mindfulness is a powerful tool that providers can use for self-care, and management of burnout and secondary trauma.  Mindfulness for health providers has received coverage in the New York Times, JAMA, and others. In recent years, mindfulness-based interventions specifically geared for health professionals have been developed at major academic health centers, such as Epstein’s “Mindful Practice” program at the University of Rochester. As a core clinical skill, mindfulness helps providers to cultivate healthy self-awareness with their own thoughts, emotions, and unconscious biases. Critical curiosity and nonjudgmental awareness inherent in mindfulness practice is also highly useful for effective and compassionate communication with youth, families, and colleagues. As such, this proposed session is an excellent fit for the SAHM 2017 theme of “Cultivating Connections.”

The Mindful Provider Critical curiosity & nonjudgmental awareness inherent in mindfulness practice is also Highly useful for effective and compassionate communication with youth, families, and colleagues THE MINDFUL PROVIDER: CULTIVATING RESILIENCE AND MINDFUL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Provider burnout and secondary trauma are pressing concerns in the field of adolescent and young adult health care service delivery.  Whereas burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, closely-related secondary trauma (also called compassion fatigue) is caused by repeated exposure to, and involvement in, the suffering and pain of the patients and families we serve. The capacity for health providers to stay healthy, balanced, and present in the face of intense professional challenges is critical for providers to be able to provide and sustain the kind of compassionate, youth-centered care for which we all strive. Mindfulness is paying attention in a particular way: On purpose, in the present moment, without analysis, criticism or judgment.  Mindfulness is a powerful tool that providers can use for self-care, and management of burnout and secondary trauma.  Mindfulness for health providers has received coverage in the New York Times, JAMA, and others. In recent years, mindfulness-based interventions specifically geared for health professionals have been developed at major academic health centers, such as Epstein’s “Mindful Practice” program at the University of Rochester. As a core clinical skill, mindfulness helps providers to cultivate healthy self-awareness with their own thoughts, emotions, and unconscious biases. Critical curiosity and nonjudgmental awareness inherent in mindfulness practice is also highly useful for effective and compassionate communication with youth, families, and colleagues. As such, this proposed session is an excellent fit for the SAHM 2017 theme of “Cultivating Connections.”

Informal Mindfulness: Don’t Wait- Meditate! Bring mindful awareness into everyday, routine activities Can be a source of joy as well as stress relief When we follow our breath & smiles we can come home to the present moment So………HEAR WE GO!

Our Exercise for Today: Walking Meditation