We are devoted to cultivating a more mindful hospital community and culture to best support our patients, caregivers, parents, and health professionals. Mindfulness has broad-reaching mental, physical, and emotional benefits. Join us.
Let’s Cultivate a More Mindful Hospital
Let’s Cultivate a More Mindful Hospital
Mindfulness can be for Everyone
Mindfulness can be for Everyone
Everyone has the capacity to be mindful. This quality can be cultivated through training, intentional practice, and community.
Mindfulness for Health Professionals
Mindfulness can help relieve some of the emotional and physical stress of caring for and supporting a loved one. Practicing with other parents and caregivers can also help you to connect and build community together.
Mindfulness for Children & Youth
One of the many beautiful things about mindfulness is that you can practice anywhere — whether you are at home, at school, on a walk, or sitting on a bench. Mindfulness can help you to manage stress and pain, improving your well-being and health. Learn more about how we can support your mindfulness journey below.
Mindfulness for Parents & Caregivers
Mindfulness can provide a way of grounding yourself in your workday. It can support your well being, and help you to manage distress and burnout. Let our programs for health professionals nourish you.
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Explore Mindfulness Programs
We have several programs that serve parents & caregivers, children & youth, and health professionals. Please explore our offerings. We look forward to supporting you on your mindfulness journey.
Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills
for Parents and Caregivers (MARS-PC)
This free program consists of one 30-minute information session followed by a series of six one-hour sessions. The sessions are educational and experiential, and are facilitated by Dr. Joanna McDermid and Dr. Dzung Vo. This group intends to help parents be at their best while caring for their loved one, who may be struggling with psychological distress, including anxiety and depression, and/or chronic illness or pain.
Mindful Healing
It is a free, eight-session (how many hours are each session, is it in-person or virtual?) 90-minutes in-person or virtual mindfulness course for healthcare professionals that teaches formal and informal mindfulness skills. This program aims to enhance and support quality of care, caring, and clinician well-being. Click here for more details.
Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursdays are weekly, twenty-minute virtual drop-in mindfulness practice sessions for staff at BC Children’s Hospital, Women’s Hospital and PHSA Staff on Thursdays from 12:35 – 12:55pm.
Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents (MARS-A)
It is a free, eight-week course for adolescents 15-19 years of age. It covers learning and applying mindfulness for beginners. There are eight 90-minute afternoon virtual or-person sessions and one three-hour in-person weekend session. Click here for more details.
New Breathr Version 3.0
Explore the newest version of this free mindfulness app developed by experts at BC Children’s Hospital Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and Centre for Mindfulness.
Get Involved
Please connect with us. We'd love to share how mindfulness might enhance and support you, your work, and your community. Enroll in a program, become a mindfulness ambassador, or partner with us.
