Mindfulness and Compassion: Self-Care Tools for Clinicians Julie Woodward, MA, MSW www.jawwc.com jawh@comcast.net Resources In Michigan: The Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness. AACFM members teach mindfulness- based classes, develop and provide mindfulness-based programs, lead meditation sits in the Ann Arbor area, offer workshops, and provide support and resources to mindfulness teachers. www.aacfm.org Mindful City Ann Arbor. Mindful City connects mindfulness to community, providing resources for mindfulness in the Ann Arbor area. www.mindfulcityannarbor.org Michigan Collaborative for Mindfulness in Education. MC4ME is dedicated to fostering the teaching and dissemination of mindfulness in K-12 and higher education., www.MC4ME.org Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness provides programs and events to demonstrate the ways mindfulness can improve your life. www.grandrapidscenterformindfulness.com Nationally: University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, www.umassmed.edu/cfm/ Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, https://centerformsc.org University of California at San Diego Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute, www.mbpti.org References: 1. Cultivating mindfulness in health care professionals: A review of empirical studies of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), Julie Anne Irving, Patricia L. Dobkin, Jeeseon Park , Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Volume 15, Issue 2, May 2009, Pages 61–66 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174438810900005X 1. “A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program”, Kristin D. Neff, and Christopher K. Germer, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 69(1), 28–44 (2013) C 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jclp) http://www.openground.com.au/Documents/mindful-self-compassion- program.pdf