The practice of mindfulness in assisting domestic violence survivors in recovering from trauma and helping in their everyday lives

Friday, March 20, 2015: 3:10 PM-3:50 PM
Congressional Hall A (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Speaker:
Lisa Lachance Hartwick, MSW, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Learning Objectives:
  1. Be able to identify several benefits of practicing mindfulness and the applicability to domestic violence programs.
  2. Be able to identify several benefits to practicing meditation and the applicability to domestic violence programs.
  3. Have had an experience with meditation.

Description:
Demonstrate and discuss a mindfulness and meditatiion group with survivors of trauma. Explore why it helps and what might be the benefit of incorporating mindfulness into our work wtih survivors of domestic violence.

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