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MINDFUL ETHICSMargaret Glenn, EdD, CRC
Associate Professor & Coordinator of Rehabilitation Counselor Education
West Virginia University
President, Morgantown Meditation & Counseling
SUMMARY OF ETHICAL STANDARDS OF THE HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSION
1) Professional's responsibility to clients
2) Professional's responsibility to the community and society
3) Professional's responsibility to colleagues
4) Professional's responsibility to the profession
5) Professional's responsibility to employers
6) Professional's responsibility to self
CRCC CODE OF ETHICSOPINIONS PROVIDED BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE
What were the most frequently sought opinions?• Second Place with 17%? • Confidentiality
• First Place with 54%? • Counseling Relationship (28%) • Professional Responsibility (26%)
OUR DISCUSSION
• Professional responsibility to the health & welfare of clients/consumers & those associated with their rehabilitation• Family• Employers• Colleagues• Community
• Professional responsibility to profession
• Responsibility for self care
You can’t effectively do one without the other
MINDFULNESSAware of our internal & external world; being present in the current moment
http://youtu.be/UyyjU8fzEYU
OUR THOUGHTS/OUR ENERGY
• Be responsible for the energy you broadcast• Thoughts• Heart’s electromagnetic field• Gut responses
• Be responsible for the energy that surrounds you• Bring energy?• Suck energy?
• Self care
OUR THOUGHTS & STILLNESSMindful Breathing Meditation Experience
CONTEMPLATIVE EXERCISEOUR EFFORTS, OUR ENERGY
Write about effort in terms of the kind of effort you exert at home, at work, and in your community. Consider how your life and the quality of
your effort affects those with whom you are connected.
5 WAYS TO CULTIVATE PEACE AT YOUR DESK
• Just Breathe• Hourly Breath Break
• Let there be light• Natural light not possible? Download circadian lighting software (f.lux)
• Stop & smell the roses• Aromatherapy & switch it up!
• It IS easy being green• Company of plants & flowers= healing, improved relationships, increased energy• Lucky bamboo is low maintenance & adaptable to low light
• Take your ‘Desk’ with you• Walking meetings• Being in nature = improves memory & attention span by 20%; more accurate, high
quality results
WORK WELLThe Quality of Your Sleep
IN PRACTICE
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite wildness of each moment.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn