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Front-line Partners Healthcare clinicians will be able to participate in twice-weekly, 1-hour group sessions to build stress management and resiliency skills during the Covid19 epidemic.  Led by BHI clinicians and based on the institute’s Stress Management and Resiliency Training, these groups will allow participants an opportunity to develop a self-care practice to benefit well-being at work and at home, for themselves, their families and their patients.  Additional groups will be added, if you would like to suggest an alternate time or day, please email jmeek@partners.org.

*This course is free of charge and you will not need to provide credit card info.

We are adding more groups! If your choice is full, please check back or add your name to a waiting list.

 

The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine is pleased to offer a 6-hour training for EAP social workers at the Institute on Thursday, March 21, 2019.

The Benson-Henry Institute hosts SMART Refresher courses to help former participants renew and reinvigorate the self-care skills they learned in the program.  These refresher workshops are held from time to time, and include specialty workshops for those who have participated in Successful Aging, SMART for Women and SMART for Health and Fertility.  To learn more about these programs, please email lteague@partners.org.

Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) Program

Making self-care an integral part of your daily health and wellness

The 9-week Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) program helps participants develop a self-care routine to help manage stress, improve their outlook and enhance their quality of life.

Developed at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, the PART program teaches participants a variety of mind body practices and self-care interventions:

• How to recognize their personal responses to stress
• Meditative techniques that elicit the relaxation response
• How to change thought patterns and emotional outlook to adaptive and positive perspectives
• Techniques to improve sleep, eating and physical activity
• Ways to harness creativity, humor and appreciations to cultivate positivity and personal wellbeing

**When registering, please use your school address

 

 

Participants in the Stress and Resilience Process Group will utilize a Stress Management and Resilient Training (SMART) Patient Manual.

Cost: $50.

This program is for patients who have completed treatment for cancer or are living with cancer. To participate, you must have a provider at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and you must be able to participate in the sessions from Massachusetts.

Participants in the SMART-3RP for Cancer Survivorship will utilize a SMART Patient Manual and Guided Meditations. Non-refundable cost of the manual: $65.

Please contact our group coordinator at MGHSURVIVORSHIP@partners.org before registering to ensure that this group is right for you.

**Start dates are subject to change

Resilient Youth

Drawing from well-established, evidence-based interventions to manage stress and build resilience in children and adolescents, the Child Resiliency Program at Mass General Hospital is offering Resilient Youth workshops to youth in the Mass General Brigham network and to children of MGB employees.  Separate small-group meetings are offered for youth in Elementary (Grades 1-4), Middle (Grades 5-8), and High School (Grades 9-12). Groups are 45 minutes and are held on Wednesdays beginning October 9th and running for 6 weeks.  The cost is $125 per participant. 

During these sessions, educators will discuss physical and cognitive responses to stress, and will provide opportunities to develop and practice self-care and resiliency skills to buffer stress and improve well-being.

*Scholarships available for those with need. For more information, please contact sssethi@mgh.harvard.edu 

Your child will learn:

• How stress affects thoughts and feelings
• Techniques to stay calm in stressful situations.
• Strategies for managing stress and staying calm during testing administration.
• Meditation methods that can reduce symptoms and improve physical health, such as deep breathing, mindfulness and imagery.
• How to foster positive thoughts and attitudes
• How to develop long-lasting positive habits that can build personal resiliency.

Experience with digital health devices to help children with body awareness.

Courses will be held live via Zoom

Contact : For more information, please contact Samreen Sethi at sssethi@mgh.harvard.edu