Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center
for Occupational Safety and Health

Is Stress Affecting Your Job?

Come to:

Experiential Stress Management:
Change Your Outlook, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Help yourself, help others. Discover your natural ability to reduce stress and enjoy better emotional, physical & mental health.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Feinstone Hall, E2030

Facilitated by:
Gina L. Sager, MD, RYT

Lunch and continental breakfast will be provided

Please bring:
- A yoga mat or blanket
- A meditation cushion or pillow
- Loose comfortable clothing

Registration information:

Fee:
Tuition is $125.00
Full-time JHU faculty, staff and eligible dependants may enroll under the terms of the JHU tuition remission program. Please ask your human resources representative for more information about the tuition remission program.

Registration Form:
Click here to download a registration form (type on form).
*If you have any difficulties opening this pdf form, please try right-clicking on the link and select "Save Target As..." to download to your computer and open.

Payment:
There are two methods of payment:

• If paying by check:
  Please make all checks payable to Johns Hopkins University
  
  Mail the completed registration form with payment:
  Keith Choi
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  615 N Wolfe St
  Room W7517
  Baltimore, MD 21205
  

• If paying by credit card:
  1) Complete the registration form with your credit card information and fax to our secure fax machine:
  
  Keith Choi
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  FAX: 410-614-4986
  Only MC, Visa and Discover (sorry, our payment system doesn't accept AMEX).
  
  *Please include your email address on the registration form. A receipt will be emailed once your payment is processed. This is a secure fax machine. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Keith Choi at kchoi@jhsph.edu or (410) 955-4088.
  
  2) You may also email the completed registration form with credit card payment to kchoi@jhsph.edu
  

Location:

FEINSTONE HALL, Room E2030
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N Wolfe St
Baltimore, MD 21205

Agenda:

8:30a - 9:00a: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00a - 10:00a: Welcome and Introduction to Mindfulness

10:00a – 12:00p: Experiential introduction to Mindfulness-Tools for Daily Stress Management:

-Eating Meditation
-Breath awareness:breath as anchor
-Introduction to gentle Hatha yoga: Body as new vantage point
-Introduction to walking meditation:grounding
-Introduction to sitting meditation:Being vs doing
-discussion of experiences of the morning

12:00p – 1:00p: Silent "working" mindful lunch
 
1:00p - 2:15p: Yoga Nidra-a deeply restorative guided imagery practice: Introduction to the parasympathetic nervous system

2:15p - 3:15p: Introduction to Stress Physiology-the sympathetic nervous system

3:15p – 4:00p: Application of mindfulness tools to recognize and treat professional burnout/ compassion fatigue; uses in clinical practice

Question and answer session/ discussion of practical uses of skills used today.

More Information:

Please contact Keith Choi at kchoi@jhsph.edu or 410-955-4088.