In this meeting led by Jackie Gardner-Nix, we will look at the special needs of chronic pain sufferers for managing a mindfulness course, and discuss which meditations are particularly meaningful for them. Mindfulness practice changes the brain in chronic pain.
Jackie Gardner-Nix
Dr. Gardner-Nix is an Associate Physician, Departments of Anaesthesia, St Michael’s Hospital, and Sunnybrook HealthSciences Centre, and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto.
She trained in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in the USA in 2001, and evolved the Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM) curriculum from the MBSR program, customizing it to the needs of chronic pain sufferers. She extended MBCPM courses to patients across Ontario using the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). She has trained other facilitators (MDs, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers), to deliver the courses across Ontario, as well as in the USA, UK, and Australia.
You can visit her website here : www.NeuroNovaCentre.com