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More About Mind-Body Skills Groups

Center for Mind-Body Medicine

What is Mind-Body Medicine?

Mind-Body Medicine is based on the scientific understanding of the inextricable connection among our thoughts, sensations, and feelings, and our mind, body, and spirit- between ourselves and the social and natural world in which we live. It focuses on the interactions between mind and body; and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, and spiritual factors can directly relieve stress and improve health. It is used with individuals, groups, and entire populations.


Mind-body skills are scientifically validated to reduce stress and restore physical and psychological health. The mind- body approach heals individual trauma and builds community-wide resilience. 


The Center for Mind- Body Medicine (CMBM) approach to wellness is grounded in practical, evidenced -based skills for self-care, self-awareness, and group support. It emphasizes the approach that respects and enhances each person’s capacity for self- knowledge and self-care.- CMBM 

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What is a Mind-Body Skills Group?

A Mind-Body Skills Group is grounded in self-reflection. Sharing and connecting with others creates a wonderful learning and growth environment that supports individual and collective well-being. Mind-Body Skills Groups support being witness to your own as well as other’s emotions and experiences.

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Groups emphasize a sense of community. They are small, with 8-10 people and meet on a set day and time for 8 sessions (usually weekly), with each group lasting 2 hours. This format provides an opportunity to being to integrate the mind-body skills into your life, in a real and practical way, with the support of the group to help you work through any difficulties along the way. 

 

What is the Self- Care Model?

This is a model of self-care that simply and immediately addresses the symptoms and causes of psychological trauma, stress, depression, and burnout. In the process it empowers people with skills to deepen self-awareness, calm the “fight or flight” response to promote healing and self- regulation. 


What will you learn?

  • You will learn evidenced-based self-care tools to:

  • Help lower levels of stress

  • Improve mood

  • Enhance resiliency and optimism

  • Help prevent chronic health conditions

  • Increase self-awareness

  • Enhance optimal health

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Mind-Body Skills Groups have been proven beneficial for who?

Those dealing with:

  • Life changes

  • Stress

  • Depression and anxiety

  • Separation and divorce

  • Grief and loss

  • Health issues

  • Childhood and family trauma

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As trauma comes to all of us, this work doesn’t simply benefit a few, it benefits us all!

This work is not complimentary, it is fundamental to well-being!

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What do Mind-Body Medicine Skills Group participants experience?

  • A decrease in depression and anxiety: A heightened sense of well-being and engagement in life

  • Better coping skills: Learn a dependable range of useful tools (that are always available to you) for managing pain, chronic illness, stress, anxiety, and depression

  • Fewer physical symptoms of illness: Less pain, less fatigue, and more energy

  • Greater self-awareness: Positive perceptions about their own lives, family issues, and spiritual nature

  • The power of a supportive group: Nourishment, support, and connection

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What techniques are used to improve mental and physical well-being?

  • Meditation

  • Drawings

  • Biofeedback & autogenic training

  • Guided Imagery

  • Exploring family history

  • Expressive meditations

  • Breath Work

  • Mindful Eating

  • Self-Expression

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This is Not a therapy group!
This is a highly supportive, educational experience with a trained facilitator who is an equal participant in the group. 

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Please bring a commitment to participate in all 8 group sessions and a desire to connect with, relate to, and understand others and their experience, equal to your own.


What populations have experienced this model of self-care?

  • First responders after 9/11

  • Children on the bus from the 35 W Bridge collapse

  • In war torn countries like Kosovo, Gaza, and Israel, and Ukraine

  • After natural disasters in Houston, Texas and Hurricane Katerina

  • After the wildfires in Sonoma County California

  • With Native Americans in the Midwest

  • Embedded in health care systems like Eskenazi Health, Indiana

  • Implemented in over 30 Veterans Administration Health Centers, clinics and military bases across the United States

  • Medical Students

  • Broward County Florida following a mass school shooting

  • Stressed out professionals

  • Stay-at -home parents 

  • Inner-city children

  • And many more

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The Center for Mind-Body Medicine has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, and on 60 Minutes.

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