On the Brink of Burnout? Mindful Tools to Come Back to Balance

Mindful Kids Miami and Miami Mindfulness

invite you to an Experential workshop that will offer practical tools for Coming back to Balance from the Brink of Burnout.

Burnout leads to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, anxiety, stress, and a decreased sense of personal accomplishment and well-being. Join us in discovering tools to prevent and work with symptoms of typical burnout.

This is an experiential workshop based on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, designed to explore the physiological and psychological consequences of burnout and ways to work skillfully to establish more effective coping behaviors. We will be using mindfulness practices including movement, meditation, and interpersonal communication

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“It is the stillness of the mind that brings peace within.”

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Who should attend this workshop?

Anyone who is interested in discovering what mindfulness is for themselves or who would like to cultivate their own practice of mindfulness.  If you are a parent, educator, healthcare provider, caregiver of children, or you want to become more skillful and compassionate, then you will want to attend this master class.

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Where

The retreat will be held in The Sanctuary, at the Riviera Presbyterian Church on Sunset Drive near South Miami. 

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  Participation fee - $75

$15 Discount Fee for Educators, Counselors, Social Workers

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What to Bring

Please be sure to bring a yoga mat and a beach towel.  You may also want to bring socks, cushion, and/or a blanket. 

Remember to wear comfortable clothing.  Please leave your phones, devices and watches at home.  If you must bring a beeper and phone, please turn the phone off and keep the beeper on vibrate.

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  Teachers

 Zayda Vallejo, 

Senior Teacher And Trainer Before joining Mindful Kids Miami, Ms. Vallejo  was an adjunct faculty member and part of the Supervisory Team and Certification Review Board at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is currently a faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. For the last year and half, she has been part of a team at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Harvard University Medical School’s Cambridge Health Alliance, developing a curriculum for mindfulness training in primary care. She is also part of a team of researchers from Boston Medical Center developing a mindfulness intervention for mothers who have experienced intimate partner violence. She co-authored a manual for mental health clinicians with Dr. Lisa Fortuna, “Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders,” published in October 2015. Ms. Vallejo co-authored a curriculum with Dr. Hortensia Amaro: “Moment-by-Moment in Women’s Recovery: A Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention Program,” published in 2008. Ms. Vallejo was born in Colombia, South America and completed her Bachelors of Science in Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and a Master’s degree in Political Economics at Oxford University in England. She has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1978. 

Valerie Dewitt began teaching yoga to adults at the Yoga Institute of Miami in 1998, after her second child was born. She specializes in both Iyengar and Insight Yoga which incorporates mindfulness within yoga practice. She is a Certified YogaKids® Teacher and teaches yoga programs designed for children in schools. Ms. DeWitt has experience as a mentor to trainees in YK, and has conducted workshops and trainings for teachers, parents, and childcare professionals at several local public and private schools and community organizations. Since 2001, she has taught a yoga class for Public School’s Community Education Program. Ms. DeWitt completed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program and the Mindful Teachers Training Program (MTTP) under Valerie York-Zimmerman in 2011 and 2012, and is currently a lead teacher of MTTP. In 2015, Ms. DeWitt completed the 6 day MBSR Teacher Training, through UCSD. She is a dedicated Board member of MKM since 2012.