Product Catalog PROGRAM OFFERINGS 2014
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Contents Mindfulness at Work®
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Mindfulness at Work® Monthly
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
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Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM)
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Mindfulness-Based Tobacco Cessation
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(QUITSMART® MINDFULLY)
Weight Loss in Small Bytes™ Weight Loss in Small Bytes Monthly™
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The Diabetes Education and Management Program 11 Mindful Cancer Care™
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eMindful’s programs target the biggest health cost drivers facing employers—stress, obesity, smoking, cancer, chronic pain, and more. Our courses offer cost-effective and convenient access to our internationally acclaimed team of experts. All of our courses are provided online in a virtual classroom where participants can see, hear, chat, and talk with each other and their instructors, from their homes, offices, or any location with a broadband Internet connection. Any participant missing a class can easily review it later in our online archive. eMindful’s video conferencing software is easy to use and technical support is available to assist participants.
Mindfulness at Work® Mindfulness at Work® was developed by eMindful, piloted in the U.S. by Aetna, and recognized by the National Business Group on Health for its success in stress management. The program has been offered by dozens of employers and taken by thousands of employees around the world. Participants report the program is enormously helpful in managing stress, improving creativity, and enhancing focus, concentration, and energy levels. eMindful and a group of five employers recently found that productivity increased by an average of 69 minutes per week per participant, yielding a return-on-investment of more than 11:1. Stress levels decreased by more than 37 percent as measured by the Perceived Stress Scale, a validated assessment instrument. Mindfulness at Work® is taught live in our online classroom. The program consists of twelve 1-hour weekly classes, plus a 2-hour intensive class, for a total of 14 hours. Mindfulness at Work® provides participants with tools for becoming more aware of habitual patterns that may undermine their success—whether that is defined in terms of career objectives, interpersonal relationships, weight management, addiction relapse or other healthful attitudes and behaviors.
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eMindful has collaborated with Aetna and Duke Integrative Medicine in researching the benefits of the Mindfulness at Work® program and the results have been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. This study demonstrated significant reductions in stress levels, and that employees with high levels of stress incurred medical costs nearly $2,000 per year higher than employees with low stress levels. Reduced stress also can improve sleep quality and heart function, which contributes to better health, greater happiness and higher productivity. Mindfulness at Work® leverages principles and skills taught in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Stress Reduction Clinic. Both programs have substantial evidence showing that mindfulness helps restore and maintain a sense of personal balance and avoid emotional and physical depletion. This is important not only for people with stress-related mental health and chronic disease conditions but also for those who want to avoid such conditions.
Mindfulness at Work® No. of classes: 12 classes offered weekly Class length: 1 hour. A two-hour experiential workshop is conducted the 10th week of class Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Mindfulness at Work® Monthly The Mindfulness at Work® Monthly program was developed to deliver an innovative approach to mindfulness while still maintaining course integrity and effectiveness. The course has been developed so that each class has a fully defined curriculum with a beginning, middle and end. As a result, each class delivers a program unto itself so that the individual is not required to attend previous or subsequent sessions, but is certainly welcome to do so. This allows attendees to join a class at any time throughout the program offering.
Mindfulness at Work® Monthly Class Schedule:
Each class is structured to include:
• A brief explanation and definition of mindfulness • Didactic discussion • Experiential discussion • Facilitative interactive discussion
Session 1: Mindfulness in Your Day
Session 2: Stop Reacting and Start Responding
Session 3: The Art of Mindful Eating
Session 4: Overcoming Obstacles to Change
Session 5: Thoughts are Not Facts: Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Our Mind
Session 6: Getting to Know Your Mind Traps
Session 7: Success: It’s Not About Time Management, It’s About Attention Management
Session 8: Bringing Calm and Focus to Overwhelming Situations
Session 9: Breaking Free from Bad Habits
Session 10: Creating Better Relationships at Work
Session 11: Preventing Relapse into Burnout
Session 12: Dealing with Difficult People
Mindfulness at Work® Monthly No. of classes: 12 classes offered monthly Class length: 1 hour Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is an evidence-based program with more than 1,000 research studies supporting its effectiveness in addressing a range of illnesses. These include depression, anxiety, substance abuse, eating disorders, insomnia, chronic pain, psoriasis, Type 2 diabetes, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, ADHD, cancer and heart disease. MBSR addresses this wide variety of health problems by tackling a root cause: stress. The course offers an eight-week intensive training based on well-known mind-body healing practices. Mindfulness practice is ideal for cultivating greater awareness of the unity of mind and body, as well as how our unconscious thoughts, feelings and behaviors can affect and undermine emotional and physical health.
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The mind is known to be a factor in stress and stressrelated disorders, and mindfulness has been shown to have a positive impact on a range of autonomic physiological processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall emotional reactivity. In addition to mindfulness practices, MBSR uses different forms of body movement, such as yoga and Qigong, which can benefit those suffering from pain and chronic illnesses. The MBSR program was developed in the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979 and is now offered in over 200 medical facilities around the world. MBSR promotes active partnership in participatory medicine, in which individuals take responsibility for tapping their own resources for learning, growing, healing and positive transformation.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction No. of classes: 8 classes offered weekly Class length: 2 hours. A seven-hour experiential workshop is conducted the 6th week of class Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management The Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM) program is based on work started 30 years ago at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Stress Reduction Clinic. MBCPM was developed by Jackie Gardner-Nix, M.D., an internationally respected leader in chronic pain management.
While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial, it’s necessary to take full advantage of the mind’s healing capabilities in order to maximize pain relief. MBCPM offers a new treatment approach that helps harness the mind’s power to quiet pain and regain control. Mindfulness practice encourages:
MBCPM is a 10-week program and has been tailored to accommodate limitations often experienced by chronic pain sufferers. And while the course offers methods that are quite different from medical procedures, surgeries, and drugs the program clearly is not a replacement for, but rather a complement to, conventional medicine.
MBCPM trains participants to become aware of thoughts and emotions that affect the pain experience and, in so doing, leverage the healing links between mind and body. More than 2,000 students have successfully completed the course, many of whom now experience considerably less disability and suffering.
• Understanding how emotions and thoughts affect physical symptoms • Reversing the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions • Preventing pain from becoming chronic or long-term • Lifting the anxiety and depression that may accompany chronic pain
Dr. Gardner-Nix’s research findings from a trial using MPCPM as an intervention indicate that the course significantly improved participants’ quality of life and reduced “usual pain” levels – a widely used measure for assessing pain intensities.
Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management No. of classes: 10 classes offered weekly Class length: 1.5 hours. A four-hour experiential workshop is conducted the 8th week of class Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Mindfulness-Based Tobacco Cessation (QUITSMART® MINDFULLY) Your organization and employees pay dearly for smoking. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking costs more than $97 billion in lost productivity and $96 billion in medical spending on chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke and lung diseases. Nearly one in five U.S. adults (19.3 percent) smoked tobacco in 2010. Most adult smokers want to stop—69 percent according to the CDC. And more than half attempted to quit in 2010. Yet most smoking cessation programs don’t work over the long term. That’s what led to the creation of QuitSmart® by Dr. Robert H. Shipley, Director of the Duke University Medical Center Stop Smoking Program since 1977. In a study at five U.S. Air Force bases, QuitSmart® proved two to four times more effective than other methods. QuitSmart® also produced impressive success rates in studies published in Veterans Health System Journal and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
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As a leading wellness program provider, eMindful has collaborated with Dr. Shipley to create the QuitSmart® Mindfully program. It combines the best of Dr. Shipley’s highly successful program with eMindful’s innovative delivery of live, online classes that members can take from the convenience of their homes or offices. QuitSmart® Mindfully combines powerful treatments with mindfulness practice to help smokers break free from cigarettes. QuitSmart® Mindfully will help your employees:
• Ease off nicotine • Use the mind to help • Use a self-hypnosis CD • Break the smoking habit
QuitSmart® Mindfully is taught by certified leaders. You are assured of high quality professional help, based on strong scientific research. QuitSmart® Mindfully is a program you can trust to help your employees quit smoking.
Mindfulness-Based Tobacco Cessation (QUITSMART® MINDFULLY) No. of classes: 12 classes offered as follows: Two classes per week for weeks 1 – 5 One class in week 6 One class in week 7 Class length: 1.5 hours. A two-hour experiential workshop is conducted the fourth week of class Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Weight Loss in Small Bytes
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As medical and productivity costs related to obesity continue to rise, companies are searching for a solution to this burgeoning problem. Specifically, obesity outranks both smoking and drinking in terms of increased health costs1, and the estimated cost of obesity to a 5,000-person company is over $1 million per year 2. For employees with Class III obesity (a body mass index greater than 40), workers’ compensation claims are twice those of recommended-weight employees while medical costs are up to seven times higher and lost work days are up to thirteen times higher when compared to recommended-weight workers.3 Conventional approaches to weight loss include exercise and diet management. While that seems simple, research consistently shows that even people who are capable of losing weight (and many fail in this effort) do not keep it off. Why? Because eating has become a way of habitually coping with stress, difficult emotions, depression and boredom, as well as an opportunity for socializing, a way to compensate for lack of sleep — and perhaps even an addiction. The solution to weight loss and weight maintenance needs to consider a person’s emotional state, motivational level, and knowledge of nutrition and exercise. In short, the solution requires treating the whole person. Duke University and eMindful have collaborated to create and provide a live, online program that takes the necessary holistic approach to successfully supporting participants in losing weight and
maintaining that weight loss. Weight Loss in Small Bytes provides:
• The nutrition and exercise approach utilized by the renowned Duke Diet and Fitness Center • Tools for developing and maintaining higher self-esteem and a more positive outlook on life • The mind-body practices developed at Duke Integrative Medicine for: – Managing stress – Alleviating binge eating – Reconnecting the mind and body in determining hunger and fullness – Managing depression – Reducing insomnia – Dealing with difficult emotions Duke Diet and Fitness Center has over 40 years of clinical experience in helping people lose weight and keep it off—and the evidence to demonstrate its success. For more than ten years, Duke Integrative Medicine has been researching the efficacy of mind-body programs in helping with binge eating, depression, sleep quality and coping with difficult emotions. There is no “silver-bullet” for weight loss and maintenance. It requires a fundamental shift in lifestyle, a re-ordering of priorities, new skills and coping mechanisms, and ongoing support throughout that transition.
Weight Loss in Small Bytestm No. of classes: 20 classes offered weekly
1. Finkelstein E, Fiebelkorn IC, Wang G. “The Costs of Obesity Among Fulltime Employees.” American Journal of Health Promotion (2005); 20:45-51. 2. William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D. “CDC’s Role in Combating Obesity and the Scientific Basis of Diet and Physical Activity.” (speech, House Committee on Government Reform, Washington, DC, July 25, 2002). 3. Ostbye T, Drement J, et al. “Obesity and Workers Compensation.” Archives of Internal Medicine (2007); 167:766-773.
Class length: 1 hour Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Weight Loss in Small Bytes™ (WLSB) Monthly was derived from the highly effective, 20-week Weight Loss in Small Bytes™ program. The WLSB Monthly program was created to deliver an innovative approach to mindfulness-based weight management, while maintaining the conceptual integrity of the original 20-week course. The monthly program’s curriculum has been developed so that each one-hour class works as a stand-alone session. Participants are not required to attend previous or subsequent sessions, but are certainly encouraged to do so. This allows attendees to join a class at any time throughout the program offering. This format gives employers added flexibility in addressing the alarming—and rapidly growing— medical and productivity costs related to obesity. Conventional approaches to weight loss include exercise and diet management. While that seems simple, research consistently shows that many people can’t lose weight—and even those who do usually can’t keep it off. Why? Because eating has become an habitual coping response to stress, depression, and difficult emotions, a means to reduce boredom, an opportunity for socializing, a way to compensate for lack of sleep—and perhaps even an addiction.
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The solution to weight loss and weight maintenance needs to consider a person’s emotional state, motivational level, behavioral skills and knowledge of nutrition and exercise. In short, the solution requires treating the whole person. Duke Integrative Medicine, Duke Diet & Fitness Center and eMindful have created this program to take a uniquely holistic approach to supporting participants in losing weight and maintaining that weight loss. The program draws from:
• The nutrition and exercise approach pioneered by the world-renowned Duke Diet & Fitness Center • The mind-body practices developed at Duke Integrative Medicine for: – Managing stress – Reducing binge eating – Reconnecting the mind and body in determining hunger and fullness – Managing depression – Improving sleep quality and reducing insomnia – Dealing with difficult emotions – Developing and maintaining higher self-esteem and a more positive outlook
Weight Loss in Small Bytestm Monthly No. of classes: 12 classes offered monthly Class length: 1 hour Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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The Diabetes Education and Management Program Diabetes Education and Management consists of four one-hour classes that can be offered individually or as a complete program offering. In collaboration with Integrated Diabetes Care, LLC (IDC), eMindful has created an educational program that addresses the key issues for effective diabetes management. The program offers relevant nutritional, movement and behavioral components, as well as mind-body stress management tools, to provide participants with sustainable methods for living fully with diabetes. Among its professionals, the IDC team includes a physician specializing in diabetes care, a Certified Diabetes Educator, and a bi-cultural, licensed clinical social worker. The Diabetes Education and Management program is available in both English and Spanish. The program includes the following:
Class One: Pillars of Care for Diabetes
Class Two: Healthy, Mindful Eating with Diabetes
Class Three: Mindful Movement with Diabetes
Class Four: Stress Management with Mindfulness
The Diabetes Education and Management Program No. of classes: 4 classes offered weekly Class length: 1 hour Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Mindful Cancer Care
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Within all stages and types of cancer, those with the disease commonly experience anxiety, distress and mood disturbance. Studies show that mindfulness practice increases immunological functioning, improves the quality of life for cancer patients, and provides better focus and decision making skills. Yet many people under medical care for cancer cannot access support programs due to geographical distance, transportation issues, cancer-related illness or limited mobility.
• Convenient access to the program through a live, interactive classroom online
• A reduction in stress and mood disturbance
• Improved spirituality and post-traumatic growth, which have been linked to increased positive affect, psychological adjustment, quality of life and decreased physical discomfort and dysfunction
• An ability to act with greater awareness
That’s why eMindful created an eight-week cancer class for patients facing these barriers. Our Mindful Cancer Care (MCC) program is the only mindfulnessbased cancer support program available in a live, online, interactive classroom. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can participate in the program.
These results from our program were seen among men and women across diverse cancer types and stages. The benefits were as effective as those measured in mindfulness programs delivered in person.
Our program has received growing attention and has significantly helped those with the disease. Research conducted by a major university cancer center found MCC to offer significant benefits to men and women with diverse types and stages of cancer. These benefits include:
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The MCC program is not just clinically effective; participants have a positive experience in the class. One hundred percent of participants in the university study reported that the course met (41 percent) or exceeded (59 percent) their expectations. And 100 percent said they would recommend it to others.
Mindful Cancer Caretm No. of classes: 8 classes offered weekly Class length: 1.5 hours Format: Live, online program (and access to recordings of missed classes)
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Pricing We offer several pricing options, based upon the length of the course, how many programs are purchased and the number of employees you would like to commit to the programs. Our options include:
• Course-based fees (i.e. one all-inclusive fee for a group of students)
• Per Employee Per Month fees which give all employees access to eMindful’s quality controlled, evidence-based programs – regardless of the employee’s geographical location
• Per-participant fees for each employee signing up for a program
For more detail and to arrange an option that works best for your organization, please contact: Kelley McCabe Ruff, CEO eMindful Inc. 772-569-4540 kelley@eMindful.com
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