The Lebanese Association of Mindfulness, in partnership with LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, will have a conference on Wellness and Flourishing. We are also honored to have Dr. Michael Chaskalson, 'mindfulnessworks' founder, as a Key Speaker at the event. Stay tuned to the full program and the registration link!
We were honored to inaugurate LAM activities with Prof. Rebecca Crane, director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, to be the Keynote Speaker for the Conference. More than 100 attendees online and another hundred over Zoom participated in the Conference. Prof. MA El Khoury presented mindfulness and the brain, Dr. S. Obeid spoke about mindfulness and anxiety, and Ms. W. Charounti presented mindfulness and recurrent depression findings. Ms. Nadine Zakaria presented the effects of mindfulness and art on psychotic patients and D. Matta his experience of teaching mindfulness to college students, academics, and staff at USJ. Then there was a mindfulness breathing session before ending with an announcement about future mindfulness courses at CFP and LAM activities.