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.
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.
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.
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.