{"id":5687,"date":"2015-04-24T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:05:18","slug":"maybe-every-therapist-should-or-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/maybe-every-therapist-should-or-could\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Every Therapist Should or Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure how it works for others, but for me, being and feeling a part of a community of like-minded therapists on a journey of experiential learning and good fellowship is an important thing. I am referring to the mindfulness meditation group that I meet with the second Friday evening of every month. Therapists in other cities maybe doing similarly already \u2013 they call it \u2018convergent evolution\u2019 \u2013 but, if they aren\u2019t already, I put it out there as something to consider.<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/balance-110850_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4019\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/balance-110850_640-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"balance-110850_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it\u2019s been looking so far these first few months. Each in our group of ten take a turn hosting. \u00a0The host mcees the evening and introduces whatever suggestions for ritual they\u2019d like to put in place. After a number of meetings now we\u2019ve adopted a basic structure for how we like to do the evening. We begin with meditation for fifteen-twenty minutes. \u00a0Always so nice after a busy week, I have to say. We then breath into a \u2018mindful sharing of the moment\u2019 check-in, that is surely guided by the spontaneous impression, perhaps gestalt, of the moment that emerges. Being therapists it is not hard to imagine that there is a level of open and natural sharing of \u2018what\u2019s up\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of us can\u2019t but help ourselves here. We meditate a second time for twenty minutes. Share \u2018mindfully\u2019 a second time, this time usually with a guiding theme, question or consideration. We then meditate a third time before we smile a deep inner satisfaction, and move into the closing of the evening \u2013 the mindful \u2018breaking of a little bread\u2019, potluck style. This past group we ate in mindful silence!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As far as the background of how we came together and why therapists all over might do the same, there are a few things to mention. First, there was desire to come together as therapists to pursue a group practice of mindfulness and meditation. In the group there are varying personal histories with mindfulness, meditation and\/or Eastern thought and each wants to explore a deepening personal practice. There is a clear sense of the benefits of bringing mindfulness into the therapeutic space. So it is a little that on those Fridays we come together to practice what we we preach. But, on this note there is perhaps another instrumental and more profound reason why we are drawn together to discover the experience of mindfulness. Ten years ago, mindfulness meditation was hardly what it is now.\u00a0\u00a0 In that time, more and more are undertaking lifestyle shifts towards the mindful. Those who are mindful begin to understand the power to slow the frenetic and noisy mind. Those who undertake mindfulness together, as in our mindfulness meditation group for therapists, contribute to a new culture of living and sharing the being more aware together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure how it works for others, but for me, being and feeling a part of a community of like-minded therapists on a journey of experiential learning and good fellowship is an important thing. I am referring to the mindfulness meditation group that I meet with the second Friday evening of every month. 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