Resources
This page has articles, videos, and recordings to support your mindfulness practice! New materials will be added as they become available. If there is a resource you are looking for and do not see here please get in touch.
Podcasts
Dr.Greg Wells Podcast: Mindfulness for Life w/Elli Weisbaum
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Each week Dr. Greg Wells (scientist & physiologist) breaks down the science of health, human performance and ultimate potential. In this episode, we explore how mindfulness can lead to cognitive flexibility, along with connections between mindfulness and neuroscience. We also discuss what exactly “mindfulness” is and how it can be accessibly integrated into daily life. The episode addresses questions about how to start a mindfulness practice, whether you can be “bad at mindfulness” and what to do next if you’ve already started a practice and want to go deeper.
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https://anchor.fm/dr-greg-wells/episodes/115--Elli-Weisbaum-on-Mindfulness-for-Life-eqj8mm/a-a4nhesj
Talk with HIROC (Healthcare Reciprocal of Canada) Podcast
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Today we are fortunate to speak with Hazim Hassan, Vice President of Business Planning & Strategy at the Ontario Hospital Association, and Dr. Elli Weisbaum, Instructor for the Applied Mindfulness and Meditation Certificate Program at the University of Toronto, for a discussion around mindfulness. Great advice and shared learnings on what you can do to get started: 1) focused attention practice, 2) kind intentions, and 3) making yourself a priority!
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https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6829079013986721792/
Audio
Video
Meditations for youth and teens! In partnership with AboutKidsHealth we have created the videos below to share different mindfulness practices aimed at youth and teens.
Mindfulness in Schools: 15 minute documentary
In October 2012, a group of monastics and lay people, who practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village, visited New Delhi, India. Their aspiration was to cultivate mindfulness in schools. This video was captured during that trip.
Selected Publications
Applied Mindfulness for Physician Wellbeing: A Prospective Qualitative Study Protocol
Authors: Elli Weisbaum & Nicholas Chadi
Full article:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.807792/full
Operationalizing mindfulness across education, healthcare & the workplace: Strategic approaches for developing wellbeing amidst the challenges of covid-19 and beyond
Author: Elli Weisbaum
Full article: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/aupha/jhae/2022/00000038/00000004/art00008?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf
Mindful Nation UK All-Parliamentary
Report click here to read. This groundbreaking report was released in 2015 by an all-parliamentary group giving recommendations for the incorporation of mindfulness into key sectors of society, focused specifically on Health, Education, Workplace and the Criminal Justice System. It is a great resource for anyone wanting to show the efficacy of mindfulness practice as it applies to these sectors.
Popular articles and research in the field of mindfulness can be found at the American Mindfulness Research Association.
Apps
The Plum Village App (free) - iPhone & Android
This app comes from the international mindfulness community of Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh. It has everything from guided mediations, to didactic talks and even practices for young children.
Simple Habit is a meditation app that offers 5, 10 and 20 minute guided meditations on different topics from over 30 meditation teachers. Elli has recorded several sessions for them, which you can find on her teacher page.
For a free 2 week trial use the coupon code: MEDITATEWITHELLI. You can download the app here or in the App Store on your Apple or Android.
Blogs
Mindfulness for Life: Navigating a PhD with curiosity, kindness & joy click here to read.
This blog explores how mindfulness can be applied to daily life in the context of my experience as a PhD student. Topics include mindfulness for time management, tackling self-doubt, the importance of community and more. At the end of each post is a mindfulness practice that readers can try out.
Learn, Teach, Lead: Cultivating Healthy Classrooms for Students & Teachers click here to read.
In partnership with The Learning Exchange, this guest blog post explore the growing evidence based perspective for bringing mindfulness into classrooms.