Apr 18, 2017
“Cultivating Mindfulness to Support Recovery” was presented on Tuesday March 28, 2017, by Dr. Elizabeth A.R. Robinson, MPH, MSW Ph.D. Mindfulness practices are effective in supporting sustained recovery from substance use disorders. This presentation will describe theory and research supporting mindfulness, demonstrate mindfulness techniques and provide opportunities for the audience to experience and cultivate mindfulness, and review the evidence of the positive effects of mindfulness on recovery.
This presentation is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a free, annual education series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For information, please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.
About the presenter:
Elizabeth A. R. Robinson, MSW, MPH, Ph.D.
Dr. Libby Robinson has practiced mindfulness meditation since 1979
and was trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction by Jon
Kabat-Zinn and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Center
for Mindfulness. She has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
since 2003. She recently retired from the University of Michigan,
where she was a Research Assistant Professor, carrying out
NIH-funded research on the role of spiritual and religious change
in recovery. She also did an NIAAA post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Michigan Addiction Research Center and was on the
social work faculty at Case Western Reserve University and the
University at Buffalo. Dr. Robinson has an MSW, an MPH and a Ph.D.
in Psychology and Social Work from the University of Michigan.