Umass center for mindfulness in medicine

More than forty years ago Jon Kabat-Zinn began seeing patients with chronic disease in the basement of our Medical Center. His hypothesis was simple - the practice of mindfulness could help alleviate the pain and suffering associated with chronic disease. Now, 40 years later, thanks to Jon’s pioneering work, we know unequivocally that mindfulness can not only reduce pain and suffering but can also be used as an adjunct to standard medical care for a multitude of diseases and as a preventive measure to reduce the incidence of stress-related illness. The progress that has been made these last 40 years in our understanding of the power of mindfulness has been nothing short of remarkable.

UMass Chan Medical School, our academic partner, has been at the epicenter of this progress and the leading provider of mindfulness training programs for decades. In 2019 it was decided that these training programs should transition to our health care system where Jon’s vis

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UMass Medical School Creates First Division of Mindfulness

Marking unprecedented support for the role of mindfulness in health care, the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced in December the creation of a new division dedicated to its academic study. The Division of Mindfulness, the first of its kind, encompasses the university’s existing Center for Mindfulness in medicin, Health Care, and Society, started by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the 1980s. Within a medical school, a “division” indicates that an area, such as endocrinology or psychiatry, is designated as something requiring long-term focused study in order to develop increasingly more effective treatments.

By creating “the infrastructure to support researchers and clinicians to further the scientific knowledge of mindfulness and of how the mind works,” this new designation greatly increases the opportunities for research (as well as sources of funding for such research) and in supporting the application of mindfulness

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Mindfulness Programs

4-Week Mindfulness Tools

This course introduces mindfulness practice and its benefits and is an effective resource for strengthening and refreshing a current practice. 
Cost: $200

• Learn about mindfulness and its benefits
• Deepen and enrich your mindfulness practice
• Connect in a group setting, fängslande in practice together
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4-Week Mindfulness for Managing Pain: An Introduction

This course introduces participants to mindfulness practice and helps develop tools to cope with acute and chronic pain, decrease stress and participate more fully in self-care. 
Cost: $200

• Develop skills to cope with acute and chronic pain
• Reduce stress related to your experience of chronic pain  
• Improve self-care practices for better pain management

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8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

This course is the origina