Mindfulness Meditation

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This course provides students with the theories surrounding the use of meditation as a healing tool while at the same time providing an opportunity for students to learn and practice meditation techniques.

Paths and Approaches to Transformation and Healing

The PATH Institute provides experiential, academic opportunities to study integrative health and healing concepts. Based on the growing awareness of mind, body and spirit interactions in holistic healing and wellness, this program builds on the movement that influenced Congress in 1992 to establish what is now the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine within the National Institutes of Health.

The PATH Institute is an 18 credit graduate certificate program that focuses on alternative health and healing modalities. PATH Institute credits may be applied to various M.Ed. programs in health, counseling and self-designed options at Plymouth State University.

In three-day residential seminars, the PATH Institute allows you to:

• Examine concepts of health that consider the whole person— physical, environmental, emotional, mental, social and spiritual
• Investigate the difference between healing and curing, and the interface of alternative and conventional approaches to health and healing
• Learn in a safe and healing environment surrounded by the natural world and supported by health-promoting activities
• Participate in the dynamic exchange of student perspectives
• Collaborate on individual and small group exercises and projects

This instructional model invites strong interactive relationships between students and faculty, and encourages deep personal reflection and learning. You will prepare before class sessions and complete individual assignments during and after the residential weekends.

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Related Programs and Facilities

• Counselor Education M.Ed. Program
• Health Education M.Ed. Program
• OATH – Organizational Approaches to Transformation and Healing

Wellness Management, Vol.21, No.3 (PDF 759 kb): The University System of New Hampshire Integrates Health Promotion, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Organizational Wellness to Promote Faculty and Staff Wellness. Wellness Management is a publication of the National Wellness Institute, Inc.

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PATH Course Schedule

HH 5620/CO 5620 Spiritual Health
July 18-20, 2008

HH 5600 Body Centered Therapies
August 8-10, 2008

HH 5610/CO 5610 The Circle of Life
November 7-8, 2008

HH 5570/CO 5570 Mindfulness Meditation: Theory and Practice
January 9 - 11, 2009

HH 5600 Body Centered Therapies
April 17-19, 2009

HH 5590/CO 5590 Transpersonal Psychology
May 1-3, 2009

HH 5560/CO 5540 Topics in Alternative Health and Healing
May 29-June 1, 2009

HH 5620/CO 5620 Spiritual Health
July 17-19, 2009

HH 5610/CO 5610 The Circle of Life
November 13-15, 2009

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Contact Information

Dr. Nancy Puglisi
PATH Institute Coordinator - e-mail the coordinator
Director of Organizational Wellness
University System of New Hampshire
(603) 862-0929
nancy.puglisi@unh.edu