Practicing Mindfulness is a useful tool to manage stress and anxiety. Listed below are resources that provide an overview of what mindfulness is as well as ways of incorporating mindfulness activities into your life.
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CAMH’s Mindfulness Programs in the GTA
A collection of mindfulness programs across the Greater Toronto Area that vary in price and offer services to both adults and children.
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Mindful Minutes Scripts
A PDF document that provides a script for team leads to open their meetings with a mindfulness exercise. The purpose of the mindful minute is to help everyone pause, shift, and to momentarily check-in with everyone’s emotional well-being at the beginning of team meetings. There are 7 mindful minute scripts to choose from.
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Pause for Providers
Mindfulness meditation is an evidence-based treatment to manage stress, reduce feelings of anxiety by fostering self-awareness and coping to help healthcare workers find a sense of well-being and self-compassion to cope with stress, emotional distress, change, loss, uncertainty, moral distress, manage anticipatory grief and prevent burnout. Pause 4 Providers offers prerecorded 5 to 10 minute mindfulness videos.