Web Resources
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Center for Contemplative Mind in Society: This organization envisions higher education as an opportunity to cultivate deep personal and social awareness: an exploration of meaning, purpose, and values in service to our common future.
Center for Healthy Minds: Founded by world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard J. Davidson, the Center for Healthy Minds envisions a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world. The Center’s mission is to cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind.
Center for Mindful Eating (TCME): TCME’s mission is to help people achieve a balanced, respectful, healthy, and joyful relationship with food and eating. TCME provides resources for educating professionals, institutions, and individuals in the principles and practices of mindful eating.
Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society: This Center from UMass Medical School provides mindfulness-based programs, professional education, online programs, scientific articles, and other resources for mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR).
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: This website provides training, resources, and research on DBT.
Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers’ documentary of an MBSR program: In Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients--people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health. In a five-part series of provocative interviews, he discusses their search for answers to perplexing questions: How do emotions translate into chemicals in our bodies? How do thoughts and feelings influence health? How can we collaborate with our bodies to encourage healing?
Healing and the Mind is a documentary series destined to influence how millions think about sickness and health (1993).
Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy: The vision of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy (IMP) is practice-based, and all teaching faculty have extensive personal and professional experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation or other mindfulness practices. Most educational programs offer CE credit for health-care professionals. We also offer psychological consultation for meditation centers, clinical supervision, psychotherapy referrals, and networking opportunities for interested clinicians.
Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles: The mission of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) is to disseminate mindful awareness across the life span through education and research.
The Morita School of Japanese Psychology: This website provides information on educational and clinical tools that are based on the principles of Japanese Psychology (Morita Therapy and Naikan Therapy).
Todo Institute offers certification and classes in Naikan and Morita therapy, as well as bibliographies on Morita and Naikan therapy.
Zen Meditation Therapy: Andrew Shugyo Bonnici, PhD, a Zen teacher and meditation psychologist, integrates the formal discipline of Zen meditation with the sincere embodiment of faith mind.