Mindfulness-Based Programs Offered at UCSD
For those in Southern California, UCSD offers a a diverse menu of options to explore and experience mindfulness. For a complete listing of our 2013 group programs please click on the schedule & registration page link below.
2018 Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth Conference – Save the Date! Feb. 2 – 4, 2018, San Diego, CA
The core focus of the Bridging conference is to connect people across disciplines, creating connections between the classroom, the laboratory, the therapy room and the living room, to support and foster the growth, study and dissemination of mindfulness for the good of the next generation. This conference is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the people doing the work of teaching mindfulness to our youngsters, to develop skills and competencies to do this work in your particular setting, and to learn what science has to say about this important work. Steven D. Hickman, PsyD UCSD Center for MindfulnessCenter For Mindfulness Program Information
Institutes & Centers
- Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
- Elizabeth Hamilton San Diego Zen Center
- Erica Sibinga, M.D. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
- InsightLA
- Itamar Stern Mindfulness Without Borders
- Marin Mindfulness Institute
- MiCBT Institute
- Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic
- Oxford Cognitive Therapy Center
- The Center for Mindful Eating
- The Centre for Mindfulness Studies
- UMass Center for Mindfulness
Mindfulness Program Websites
Other Resources
Our Blogroll
- Dharma 365
- Learn Mindfulness
- Mind Deep: A Mindfulness Practice Blog
- Mindful Clarity
- Mindful Coaching
- Mindful Psyche
- Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
- MindfulnessPlus
- Minding Your Stress
- Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic
- Rituals of Healing Blog
- Susan Kaiser Greenland
- The Mindful Path
- The Trusting Heart
- Think of Now
- Urban Mindfulness Blog
Research Resources
- Amishi Jha, PhD Psychologist and Researcher University of Miami
- Carly Shecter, Ph.D. Candidate, School and Clinical Child Psychology, University of Toronto
- Lisa Flook, PhD Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
- Randye Semple, PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC)
- Shamini Jain UCSD
Resources for Mindfulness & Youth
- .b The Mindfulness in Schools Project
- A Course in Mindful Parenting
- Ali Smith Holistic Life Foundation
- Amy Garrett, PhD Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research
- Amy Saltzman, MD Mindfulness Teacher & Holistic Physician Creator and Director: Still Quiet Place Co-founder and Director: Association for Mindfulness in Education
- Anna Whitehead, MA (Hons)
- Atman Smith Holistic Life Foundation
- Bernadette Evans-Smith, Ph.D. Rush NeuroBehavioral Center
- Betsy Wisner, LMSW Texas State University
- Chip Wood, MSW
- Chris McKenna Mindfulness Teacher & Executive Director, Mind Body Awareness Project
- Christopher Willard, Psy.D. Child’s Mind
- Chuck Fisher, PhD Dovetail Learning
- Dzung Vo, MD British Columbia Children’s Hospital Kelty Mental Health Resource Center
- Elizabeth Hamilton San Diego Zen Center
- Erica Sibinga, M.D. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
- Ferris Buck Urbanowski, M.A.
- Frank Musten, C. Psych Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic
- Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT Founder, Stressed Teens Program
- Itamar Stern Mindfulness Without Borders
- Jai Luster, Founder and Executive Director Luster Learning Institute NFP, Calm Classroom
- Jillian Haydicky, Psychology Intern at ROCK Reach Out Centre for Kids
- Jim Gillen Yoga Calm
- Joe Klein, LPC, CSAC Founder and President Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
- Katherine Weare, Emeritus Professor University of Southampton, Southampton Education School
- Kraig Kidd, Founder New World Leadership Children’s Academy
- Learning to Breathe
- Linda Lantieri, MA The Inner Resilience Program, Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)
- Lisa Flook, PhD Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
- Lynea Gillen, MS Yoga Calm
- Lynette Monteiro, C. Psych. Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic
- M. Lee Freedman, MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Co-Founder, Mindfulness Toronto Founder, Mindful Families and School
- Margaret Cullen, LMFT Mindfulness Based Programs
- Margaret Jones Callahan TRUE POINT, Mindfulness Based Education Program, TRUE POINT, UBC Life and Career Department
- Marilyn Webb Neagly Talk About Welness
- Marin Mindfulness Institute
- Mark A. Collin, MA, MFT Dovetail Learning
- Mark Bertin, MD
- Mark Lilly, Yoga Therapist, Author, Founder Street Yoga
- Mark Petter, BA (Hons.) Centre for Pediatric Pain Research
- MBCT-C Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children
- Megan Cowen Co-Founder and Executive Director of Programs Mindful Schools
- Mindfulness – Based Childbirh & Parenting (MBCT) Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA
- MindUp Program
- New Life Foundation
- Nimrod Sheinman, ND Founder and Former Director of The Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine
- Pamela Siegle, MS Executive Director Courage & Renewal Northeast
- Patricia Jennings, Senior Fellow Garrison Institute
- Randima Fernando, Executive Director, Operations at Mindful Schools
- Randye Semple, PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC)
- Robert W. Roeser, Ph.D. Portland State University
- Rochelle Voth, Ph.D., B.C.B.A. New Mindful Life
- Sam Himelstein, PhD Psychotherapist, Researcher, and Mindfulness Teacher
- Shamini Jain UCSD
- Susan Kaiser Greenland
- Tamar Mendelson, Ph.D. Center for Adolescent Health
- Theo Koffler Mindfulness Without Borders
- UCSD CFM Youth and Family Programs
Hope you don’t mind this very different take on mindfulness and MBSR
In its essence, mindfulness changes how we ‘want’, but in spite of the explosion of research on the neuroscience of mindfulness, a neurological definition of wanting has never been incorporated in any of this research literature. A major reason may be the predominant use of brain imaging (fmri) to observe the minds of mindfulness practitioners. Since the fmri only measures brain activity through the proxy of changes in blood flow within the brain, it cannot measure the biochemical correlates to wanting that are independent of neural blood flow. Indeed, because ‘wanting’ processes in the brain involve small arrays of cells within the midbrain, the fmri is as useful in observing wanting as the Mount Palomar telescope is in observing sub-atomic particles. In other words, it’s the wrong tool for the problem at hand.
Below is a link to the first explanation of mindfulness that is derived from the neuroscience of wanting. Based on the work of and endorsed by the behavioral neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, it provides a very short, simple and new explanation of mindfulness that justifies it in a most unusual way, as well as providing a simple explanation why mindfulness is so effective as an antidote to tension or ‘stress’.
I hope you find it of interest.
http://mezmer.blogspot.com/2011/11/mindfulness-and-wanting.html
Cheers!
A J Marr