Conference Brochure

Schedule : 7th October to 9th October, 2016
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7 October Friday
9.00 to 9.30
Registrations
9.30 to 10.00 Intentions, Introduction, Inauguration
Inauguration by Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul
10.00 to 11.15 Wisdom based Mindfulness (a Buddhist perspective)
Speaker: Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul
11.15 to 11.45 Tea Break
11.45 to 1.00 Wisdom based Mindfulness (a Buddhist perspective)
Speaker: Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul
1.00 to 1.45
Lunch Break
1.45 to 2.00
Mindfulness Practice
2.00 to 2.45
Mindfulness in Psychotherapy Speaker: Sandy Dias Andrade
2.45 to 3.00
Mindfulness Practice
3.00 to 3.45
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) Speaker: Dr Jo Nash
3.45 to 4.00
Mindfulness Practice
4.00 to 4.30
Tea Break
4.30 to 7.00
Parallel Sessions
Cognitive Defusion Dr Jo Nash
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy: Listening with Presence & Touch
Zia Nath & Angelina Richa Kaushish
Buddhism & Psychology Dr Prof Mahesh Deokar & Dr Neelam
Oswal
7.00 to 7.30
Closing Circle
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8 October Saturday
7.30 to 8.30
Parallel Sessions
Vipassana Meditation Dr Nikhil Mehta
Yoga - Dr Rajlaxmi
8.30 to 9.00
Breakfast
9.00 to 9.15
Opening Circle
9.15 to 10.00 Mindfulness based Interventions for mental well being - Dr Steven
Hickman (online)
10.00 to 11.15 The Body, Trauma & Mindfulness (online) Dr Raja Sevlam
11.15 to 11.45 Tea Break
11.45 to 1.00 Contemporary research in Mindfulness: issues and challenges
Sandip Ravindra
1.00 to 2.00
Lunch
2.00 to 2.15
Mindfulness Practice
2.15 to 3.15
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Mindfulness (online)
Bruce Stevenson
3.15 to 3.30
Mindfulness Practice
3.30 to 4.15
Focusing and Self as Presence (online) Fiona Parr
4.15 to 5.00
Tea Break
5.00 to 6.00
Mooji: Direct Experience with BEING
6.00 to 7.00
Closing Circle
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9 October Sunday
7.30 to 8.30
8.30 to 9.00
9.00 to 9.30
9.15 to 10.15
10.15 to 11.15
11.15 to 11.45
11.45 to 1.30
1.30 to 2.30
2.30 to 4.00
4.00 to 4.30
4.30 to 5.30
5.30 to 6.30
6.30 to 7.00
7.00 to 8.00
Parallel Sessions
Vipassana Meditation Dr Nikhil Mehta
Yoga - Dr. Rajlaxmi
Breakfast
Opening Circle
Beyond Mindfulness - NithyaShanti
Learning To See -K B Jinan
Tea Break
Parallel Sessions
Learning To See K B Jinan
The Waldorf way Shefali Kosta
A new pedagogy for non-cognitive skills - Mindfulness based EQ Ravi Pradhan
Lunch
Panel Discussion (Application of Mindfulness in Community)
Pranita Madkaikar Facilitated by Randhir Khare,
Asavari Gupchup (JBC), Kavita Saju (Bapu Trust), Narendra
Tea Break
Mindfulness In corporate sector : Anu Aga and Arul dev
TBA
Closing Circle
Dinner
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fund. Please do contribute to the scholarship fund to enable everyone to make it to the
conference.
Venue: Yashada, Baner Road, (near Pune university) Pune, India.
MINDFULNESS:
A PATHWAY TO PRESENCE
Perspectives, Practices & Application
In
Mental Health & Community
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volunteering.
CONFERENCE
Conference Fee
For Professionals: Rs 4,500 I For Students: Rs 3,500
Day Pass: Rs 2000 per day I Lunch coupon: Rs 300 per day
Discount on group bookings of eight or more
Limited accommodation available at the venue. Book in advance.
Call Just Being at 9011036828 for information and bookings.
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SOME SPEAKERS
A three day space for
contemplation, application and
exploration with lead trainers, teachers
and peers.
The focus of the Conference will be on honouring
various perspectives on mindfulness, philosophical as
well as theoretical, and to bring together various evidencebased mindfulness approaches in therapy, counselling and
community under one roof.
Through this diversity we hope to get a sense of that ONE TASTE, of
`beingness' or Presence and touch into the essence of the practice of
mindfulness that becomes the impetus for ourselves and the people we
serve.
What better way to commemorate World Mental Health Day than through this
exploration of Mindfulness. Evidence based applications, research in the eld,
has proved beyond doubt, what has been known from the wisdom traditions,
that indeed there are many bene ts from the practice of Mindfulness.
The concept and application of Mindfulness has pervaded every eld. However, to
really understand Mindfulness and the essence of the practice we need to include
the wisdom perspectives. The secular practice of Mindfulness does not exclude but
includes the deep wisdom that comes from Buddhist and other wisdom
orientations.
So the conference includes perspectives from wisdom traditions as well as an
exploration of research based applications in mental health, counselling,
psychotherapy and community with leading trainers and practitioners from around
the world through in person and online interactive sessions.
Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul,
Director,Tibet House,New Delhi,Cultural Center of His Holiness The Dalai LamaVen. Geshe Dorji Damdul travels widely within India and abroad to teach Buddhist philosophy,
psychology, logic and practice. He was appointed as of cial translator for H.H.the Dalai Lama.He has been involved with translating many texts from Tibetan to English
Session: Wisdom Based Mindfulness
Dr. Jo Nash
Dr. Jo Nash has a PhD in Psychotherapy studies from the University of Shef eld, UK, and 30 years' experience working in the mental health eld as a mental
health worker, trainer, researcher and lecturer. She is an ACT trainer and therapist, besides being trained in MBCT. She is an avid student of the wisdom of Jiddu
Krishnamurthi and Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Session: Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) : A mindfulness based intervention
Raja Sevlam
Senior Trainer in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional Trauma Training programs and developer of Integral Somatic
Psychotherapy (ISP). Among many in uences, he also draws from Advaita Vedanta.
Session (online): Trauma, Body, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness
Bruce Stevenson
A psychotherapist in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Bruce Stevenson has also trained as an integrative psychotherapist. He has also
been a Buddhist monk for ve years. He has also been a student of A.H.Almaas in California.
Session (online): Internal Family Systems (IFS), Buddhism & Psychology
Dr. Steven Hickman
Dr. Hickman is the Founder and Executive Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. He has taught over 60 MBSR
courses and has been a trainer in other Mindfulness-Based Interventions. He has been a trainer of teachers in MBSR, Mindful SelfCompassion and MBCT.
Session (online): Mindfulness based interventions for mental well being
At the heart of `understanding' Mindfulness is also the practice and a direct
experience. So the conference includes the practice of Mindfulness.
All are welcome to the conference, from those who are curious about
mindfulness, practitioners who want to deepen and widen perspective,
professionals who want to include this dimension for themselves and in
their work, students, teachers, community workers, organizational
thought leaders.
It is also an opportunity to interact with one another and to come
together of community.
We are honoured to have Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul
inaugurate the Conference and start the
conference with a session on Wisdom Based
Mindfulness from the Buddhist tradition.
Sandy Dias Andrade
Sandy Dias Andrade is a psychotherapist practicing for over fteen years. She is also the founder and director of the Just Being Center. She is
trained in mindfulness based interventions, Integrated Somatic Psychotherapy and other interventions that has include the body, mind, soul
and spirit in psychotherapy. She has developed the Presence Oriented Psychotherapy training for psychotherapists who wish to bring a
Presence orientation to their work.
Session: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
K B Jinan
K B Jinan is an activist, designer and educationist. He has been working with traditional artisans in various parts of India. In the process he has been
addressing his own de-colonizing and de-schooling process. Born in 1959 in Trichur district of Kerala, he did his Engineering in 1983 and post graduate in
product design in 1989 from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Session: Learning to See
Other Speakers include:
NithyaShanti; Sandip Ravindra (professor and researcher at SNDT Pune); Dr Prof Mahesh Deokar (Head of Department of Pali, Pune University); Dr Neelam Oswal (Clinical
Psychologist); Zia Nath (Craniosacral Practitioner & Founder of Quanta Health Care Solutions); Angelina Richa Kaushish(Craniosacral Practitioner); Dr Nikhil Mehta (Vipassana
teacher); Fiona Parr (Focusing Practitioner and Trainer); Shefali Kosta (Founder Teacher at Swadhaa School); Asavari Gupchup (Arts based therapist); Kavita Saju (ABT and project
leader at Bapu Trust); Narendra (Community worker), Dr. Rajlaxmi (Sr. Iyengar Yoga teacher and Gynaecologist)