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Retreats?

True North Insight offers meditation retreats in Ontario and Quebec

Articles:

The world is getting noisier, and it’s affecting our health.  How much will people pay for silence?

Why sounds of nature might be the best source of meditation

Research Papers:

Evaluating distance education of a mindfulness-based meditation programme for chronic pain management

Validating PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) as a Measure of Suffering in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients

Exploring the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management Course Delivered Simultaneously to On-Site and Off-Site Patients Using Telemedicine

JPR-Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale development, validation, and preliminary findings

Articles:

The Universities of Bangor, Exeter and Oxford  – Development and Validation of the Mindfulness-Based Interventions – Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBITAC)

Defining Trauma-Informed, which characterizes what NNC has built into the Mindfulness course offerings:  http://bccewh.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2013_TIP-Guide.pdf

A good resource: Kelly McGonigal’s talk on: What Science can teach us about Practice: The NeuroScience of Mindfulness:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMsatDwx07o

A fun you tube video to access about men and womens’ differences in brain processing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk

A great  TED talk about education and how the current emphasis on education disembodies us, gradually pushing us to live in our heads —and use our bodies for transporting our heads(!):  https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity

11 little known laws of mindfulness that will change the way you live your life.

In the News

CBC News Story: Meditation for pain relief gains respect from doctor featuring Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix and past course patients originally broadcast on December 11, 2012 on local evening news and then again on The National.