Practitioners from all over the world tuned in to hear Jack Kornfield, PhD talk about how mindfulness can empower people to shift their focus from judgment to acceptance.
The comment board is buzzing with insightful, perceptive takes on my webinar with Jack, and I just wanted to highlight a few that struck me.
These webinars are designed to have practical applications for your life and work. It was inspiring to see this comment from a listener who found a way to start integrating Jack’s ideas into her own practice:
“So much to think about! I found Jack’s discussion about the fluidity of self to be helpful and of which I was glad to be reminded. This is such an important concept in clinical work: To be able to help people open up to their own possibilities regardless of negative or traumatic experiences in their past or present.”
Beverly Watkins, PhD, LCSW, Edwardsville, IL
No matter your profession, there is generally something in these webinars for everyone. That’s why it’s so exciting to see comments like this one:
“Have been a student of Jack’s for MANY years, and loved to listen to him once again remind us of the letting go of suffering. The incorporation of mindfulness with therapeutic treatments is a beautiful marriage of paths. He is one of our wisest teachers in this country today, I think, and I feel grateful every time I can be brought back to seeing what is real. Thank you for this!”
Mag Dimond, Hospice Volunteer, San Francisco, CA
And it’s gratifying to see how practitioners around the world are using the techniques from our webinars in their work. Like this comment about a specific one Jack talked about:
If I had to pick one work from the session that stands out to me, it would be “nobility”, from Jack’s use of it at the very start of the program. I especially appreciate the call to recognize the “inner nobility” of each of us including our clients. Also, naming and attending to our own and others’ “inner nobility” feels like a fitting, well-phrased antidote to the cultural self-hatred mentioned during the program, rising in part from the ever present lure of social mobility and social comparison. This was my first webinar with NICABM and I’m impressed, especially with the talk-back feature. Thank you for all of your work and for making it so accessible. I’m grateful the series was recommended to me and will do my best to spread the word.”
Amy Leary, Assessment Counselor
This comment board is such an important part of the series. If you haven’t yet, check it out and see what people thought of our first webinar.
It’s amazing how these much these online webinars allow us to engage with fellow learners from all over the world. You’ll hear voices and perspectives from people you wouldn’t have otherwise encountered, and I always look forward to watching the conversations unfold.
I encourage you to check out the entire our courses on mindfulness as well.
And if you joined us for the webinar with Jack on Wednesday night, what was your biggest takeaway? Please let us know in the comments below.
A great time listening to Jack Kornfield! He provides such opportunity for new ways of seeing and being, despite whatever seems to be going on.
I am so sad I missed it. I was unwell. Is there any transcript I could read?
I was able to watch the video recording of Jack last night. I watched it like I was glued on to the computer. Every word that Jack said left an imprint on me, not because I learned about compassion for the first time, but because hearing it from him affirmed and validated my effort of cultivating compassion inside my psychiatric healing room. I have been following the teachings of Jack on CD and his teachings in Omega and I have learned much from him about loving kindness meditation. His way of teaching and sharing is deeply profound> I could feel him transmitting compassion as he speaks. He truly embodies what he teaches. I feel so much inspired by his way of teaching. He is a role model for me, and I hope that there will be more to follow him from my medical profession.I am also a student of Sufi Spiritual Healing and I find that his teaching on compassion not complements what I am learning as a healer but also deepens it and broadens it for everyone who comes into my practice. Thank you Jack.
Thank you Ruth, and Ron. I am grateful to be a part of this community.
I have found that it is really good to get top teachers like Jack to give us the essences of what they think about Mindfulness and its uses. You don’t always get central points from a course or book. His points about ‘When we feel the compassion of another it helps us navigate,’ and ‘Noting with categories helps us to see them as passing phenomena. Noting gets us into emotional balance, were very useful’. Thanks again for an excellent presentation. I am very excited about participating yet again in a NICABM course
Just wanted to thank Ruth and Ronald for this excellent organisation. I met Ronald when attended to his fabulous seminar “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy”, which was a remarkable experiencie who enligthened various ideas for the process. An now with this webinar, ideas and nice advices again growing in my mind to put in practice in our therapies. Knowing Jack was also great, specially the parts where he talked about specific cases
Thanks a lot, and warm regards from Spain
Wow! I had to break before the Talk Back session last evening. I just finished watching (!) it. What a terrific gift to be able to receive Jack’s wisdom and experience, and then have Ron and Joan hold out ideas for reflection and practice. It just blows my mind that we have this great opportunity provided by NICABM (Ruth)! Not just the talks, texts, videos, etc, but this feeling of being right there with these teachers and practitioners! Truly golden! Just as Penny wrote, “I can’t wait….” BUT, it sounds from Ruth’s post script that we will be having more and more to SAVOR! Thanks, Ruth!
Jack Kornfield’d seminar pulled it all together for me . My exposure to various Eastern religions while growing up in Southeast Asia, my Jungian studies, my strong interest in spirituality . Now I see the road to integrating all of these philosophies into an approach to therapy ; and to my own life. I can’t wait for the next seminar in this series. Thank you !