Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn

Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn