Mindfulness-Based Program
for Stress & Pain Management

An eight-week course in the art of conscious living

August– December 2008

Basic/Foundation Course:   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Monday evenings, September 8 – October 27, 2008, 6:00-8:30 pm,
plus Day of Mindfulness in October to be held at Fleming Lodge (TBA)
Location: Room 207 Carrington Hall (School of Nursing), UNC Chapel Hill (at Columbia Drive and Medical Drive)
Required orientation:  Tuesday, September 2, 6:00-7:30 pm, Location To Be Announced
Instructor:              Bud Lavery

Tuesday mornings, September 9 – October 28, 2008, 9:30am – 12 noon,
plus Day of Mindfulness in October to be held at Fleming Lodge (TBA)
Location:            UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont, 100 Sprunt Street, Chapel Hill
Required orientation:  Tuesday, September 2, 6:00-7:30 pm, Location To Be Announced
Instructor:              Mary Love May

Tuesday evenings, September 9 – October 28, 2008, 6:00pm – 8:30pm,
plus Day of Mindfulness in October to be held at Fleming Lodge (TBA)
Location:             Room 207 Carrington Hall (School of Nursing), UNC Chapel Hill (at Columbia Drive and Medical Drive)
Required orientation:  Tuesday, September 2, 6:00-7:30 pm, Location To Be Announced
Instructor:             Mary Love May

Click here for details of the Basic/Foundation course

New! Graduate Mindfulness Classes - click here

Download the course registration form here

To register, email the Program on Integrative Medicine at: mindfulness@med.unc.edu or phone  919-966-8586.

Registration Fee: $345 (includes 1 orientation session and 7 weekly group sessions of 2 hours each, 1 all-day Saturday group session, and audiotapes and other educational materials).  UNC faculty/staff/ employees fee is $295.

Cancellation Policy:
Before Orientation/Session 1……………………..Full refund
Attended Orientation/Session 1 only.………....Full refund less $25 handling fee
After beginning of first class/Session 2……….No further refunds

Life is full of stressful events...
The UNC Mindfulness-based Program for Stress and Pain Management offers training in meditation, mind-body awareness exercises and other awareness techniques that will teach you how to slow down, set priorities and stay calm, focused and relaxed in the midst of a busy life.  These practices will enhance your body's natural adaptive healing ability and will cultivate the mind's clarity, and insight. This 7-week program, follows Jon Kabat-Zinn's model and is offered by the University Headache Clinic and the Program on Integrative Medicine (Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation). Upcoming dates are listed above.

Research on MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (http://www.umassmed.edu/content.aspx?id=41252) and at the Harvard Medical School shows that the majority of people who attended the eight-week MBSR course reported lasting improvement in both physical and psychological symptoms from conditions such as heart disease, migraine headaches, some auto-immune diseases, obsessive thinking, anxiety, depression, and hostility. They also report an increased ability to relax, greater energy and enthusiasm for life, improved confidence and self-esteem, and more effective coping with both short-term and long-term stress.