DBT Mindfulness Skills Training
| Core Mindfulness Skills |
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| Introduction to the Core Skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy |
| [Course Lesson] |
| Core Mindfulness Skills Overview |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Introduction to Handouts and Worksheets |
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| Mindfulness is the act of consciously focusing the mind in the present moment, without judgment and without attachment to the moment. A person who is mindful is aware in and of the present moment. Mindfulness is the opposite of being on “automatic pilot,” or being lost in habit. Mindfulness has to do with the quality of awareness that a person brings to everyday living. It’s a way of living awake, with eyes wide open. As a set of skills, mindfulness practice is the intentional process of observing, describing, and participating in reality nonjudgmentally, in the moment, and with effectiveness (i.e., using skillful means). We can contrast mindfulness with rigidly clinging to the present moment, as if we could keep a present moment from changing if we cling hard enough. When we are mindful, we are open to the fluidity of each moment as it arises and falls away. |
| Goals of Mindfulness Practice |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| [Handout 1: Goals of Mindfulness Practice] [Worksheet 1: Pros and Cons of Practicing Mindfulness] |
| Mindfulness Definitions |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| [Handout 1a: Mindfulness Definitions] |
Core Mindfulness Skills
| Three Mind Practices (emotions, logic, wisdom) |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| [Handout 3: Wise Mind—States of Mind] |
| Ideas for Practicing Wise Mind |
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| [Course Lesson] Video Series |
| [Handout 3a: Ideas for Practicing Wise Mind] [Worksheet 3: Wise Mind Practice] |
Mindfulness “What” Skills
| “What” Skills Overview |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Taking Hold of Your Mind “What” Skills |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 4: Taking Hold of Your Mind—“What” Skills Worksheet 4: Mindfulness “What” Skills |
| “What” Skill: Observe |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| “What” Skill: Ideas for Practicing Observing |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 4a: Ideas for Practicing Observing |
| “What” Skill: Describe |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| “What” Skill: Ideas for Practicing Describing |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 4b: Ideas for Practicing Describing |
| “What” Skill: Participate |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| “What” Skill: Ideas for Practicing Participating |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 4c: Ideas for Practicing Participating Worksheet 4a: Observing, Describing, Participating Checklist Worksheet 4b: Observing, Describing, Participating Calendar |
Mindfulness “How” Skills
| “How” Skills Overview |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Taking Hold of Your Mind “How” Skills |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 5: Taking Hold of Your Mind—“How” Skills Worksheet 5: Mindfulness “How” Skills |
| “How” Skills: Non-Judgmental |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Ideas for Practicing Nonjudgmentalness |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 5a: Ideas for Practicing Nonjudgmentalness |
| “How” Skills: One Mindful |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Ideas for Practicing One-Mindfulness |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 5b: Ideas for Practicing One-Mindfulness |
| “How” Skills: Effective |
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| [Course Lesson] |
Other Perspectives in Mindfulness
| Mindful Breathing Techniques |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Practicing conscious awareness in daily life |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Other Perspectives on Mindfulness |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 6: Overview of Other Perspectives on Mindfulness |
| Goals of Mindfulness Practice—A Spiritual Perspective |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 7: Goals of Mindfulness Practice – A Spiritual Perspective |
| Wise Mind from a Spiritual Perspective |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 7A: Wise Mind from a Spiritual Perspective |
| Practicing Loving Kindness to Increase Love and Compassion |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 8: Practicing Loving Kindness to Increase Love and Compassion Worksheet 6: Loving Kindness |
| Mindlessness and The Human Doing |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Skillful Means—Balancing Doing Mind and Being Mind |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 9: Skillful Means—Balancing Doing Mind and Being Mind |
| Walking the Middle Path—Finding the Synthesis between Opposites |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Handout 10: Walking the Middle Path—Finding the Synthesis between Opposites Worksheet 10: Walking the Middle Path to Wise Mind Worksheet 10A: Analyzing Yourself on the Middle Path Worksheet 10B: Walking the Middle Path Calendar |
Additional Information
| Principles of Skills Assessment in Dialectical Behavior Therapy |
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| [Cognitive and Behavioral Practice] Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 18-29 |
| Swales, M., & Dunkley, C. |
| Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Mindfulness and Meditation |
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| [Journal Article in American Psychologist] |
| Richard J. Davidson, Alfred W. Kaszniak |
| Attention and the Brain |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Sitting Meditation | Excerpt from Full Catastrophe Living |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| Pearls before Breakfast Gene Weingarten |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| Washington Post, 2007 Joshua Bell Plays a 3 million dollar violin on a New York Subway platform and no one notices. |
| The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself | Sharon Begley |
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| [Article] |
| NY Times, 2007 |
| How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain |
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| [Course Lesson] |
| David R. Hamilton, PhD, Huffington Post, 2010 |
| The effects of mantra-based AMI Meditation on burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction levels in healthcare providers |
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| [Lifestyle Medicine] |
| Mark Pettus; Beth Netter; Leonard Perlmutter Jenness Cortez Perlmutter; Akiko S. Hosler |
