Minding the Bedside; Showing Up Mindful, Aware and Compassionate for Your Patients…And Your Life!
October 9, 2012 – 1 p.m. EST
Jerome Stone is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years in a variety of health-care settings, including pain management, hospice care, ICU, and research in complimentary and alternative medicine. His research includes investigations into the effects of compassion on cancer patients and the effects of prayer-at-a-distance on people with HIV/AIDS.
He is the author of the book, Minding the Bedside: Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind, a blogger on the sites, Minding the Bedside and What Meditation Really Is, and a speaker on the topic of meditation, mindfulness and compassion.
Jerome is a long-time practitioner of meditation, with an emphasis on the study of cross-cultural contemplative practices, and on the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Jill and their son, Noah.
Connect with Jerome via: www.mindingthebedside.com.
Minding the Bedside; Showing Up Mindful, Aware and Compassionate for Your Patients…And Your Life!
This presentation will engage the participant in a how to use the three “pillars of meditation,” mindfulness, meditative awareness and compassion to work with their mind and how to use it to work with others to show up more fully – and happily! – at the bedside. It will include a discussion on how to create multiple “mini” meditation sessions throughout one’s day to help stabilize one’s practice. Each participant will come away from this presentation with the tools necessary to create a stable meditation practice in one’s spare time.