‘Get Into The Green’ with Dr. Tamara Russell
Mindfulness for mental health and wellbeing practitioners in higher education as part of our University Mental Health Day celebrations.
About the session
UMHAN is delighted to invite Dr. Tamara Russell to deliver this online session for our wonderful members and their colleagues to support them with their own mindfulness practices the day before the busiest day in the student mental health calendar - University Mental Health Day.
Join Tamara at this ‘Get Into The Green’ Introductory Workshop just for UMHAN members and their colleagues which will include:
- An introduction to Gilbert’s Three Colours Model of the brain’s motivational systems (Gilbert, 2019)
- Contextualizing and framing the session in the higher education setting
- ‘Taking our Own Medicine’ and our common humanity (how we can lose our own wellbeing as therapists or those helping others)
- Co Creating a List of Greens and the Importance of Micro Greens
- The Secret Ingredient (holding Reds with care and kindness)
- Take-aways and calls to action.
Reference: Gilbert P. (2019). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6593829/
About the presenter
Dr. Tamara Russell PhD, D Clin Psych.
Tamara is the Founder and Director of the Mindfulness Centre of Excellence (UK), an innovation thinktank for secular mindfulness. She is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and neuroscientist specialising in 'brainwise' formulated mindfulness adaptations for groups and individuals. Tamara has been leading a multi-disciplinary 'protocol free' mindfulness teacher training in Brasil based on her Body in Mind Training approach (brainwise mindful movement) for more than 15 years.
Tamara specialises in making mindfulness accessible for those who struggle (for personal as well as systemic reasons) to access 'classical' mindfulness protocols. This includes the creation of many bespoke mindfulness interventions and mindfulness supervision for those innovating in mindfulness delivery. Her Body in Mind Training approach has been offered in the education setting (from primary to postgraduate), the healthcare setting (for both patients and staff), the workplace (legal, finance and creative sector), leadership (C-Suite and Board level) and even in Space.
Further information:
youtube.com/@dr.tamararussell9150
About the event
This is an online event that will be held on the Zoom platform. Click here to find out more about how to use Zoom.
We endeavour to make this meeting friendly to all brain types.
We kindly request:
- Have your camera on if you are comfortable to do so, but if not, please do keep it off.
- Feel free to take care of yourself in whatever way you need to - stim and wiggle - but we request that if you are making large movements that may distract others, please turn off the camera.
- Please use the 'Chat' for questions. We have a moderator to help the speaker ensure all questions are answered. If there is not sufficient time, we will collate the questions and the speaker has kindly agreed to answer them and we will circulate this after the event.
- Please remain on mute.
- Feel free to use emojis to let us know how things are landing.
