Mindfulness Practices

Looking for a new mindfulness practice? Feel free to print these out, share with your clients, team members and colleagues.

Do you have a favorite practice? We’d love to hear about it and post it here - giving you credit of course! We look forward to seeing what you send in!

Check back regularly for more practices...

  1. Shoe Mindfulness - Skills: Observe, Describe

  2. Mindfulness of Threes - Skill: Observe

  3. Build-a-Body - Skills: Participating, Non-judgement

  4. Pickle - Skills: Observe, One Mindfully

  5. Twist and Shout - Skills: Participate, One Mindfully

  6. Read Aloud - Skills: Mindfulness to Current Emotion, Non-judgment, Accumulating Positives

  7. Obstacle Course - Skills: Describe Effectively, Mindfulness of Others, Coaching Behavior

  8. Interpretation of Emotions - Skills: Model of Emotions or Check the Facts

  9. Pass the Pen - Skills: Participate, One Mindfully, Non-judgmentally, Effectiveness

  10. Tear the Animal - Skills: Participate, Non-judgmentally, Letting Go of Attachment, Letting Go of Perfection, Effectiveness

  11. Mimic - Skills: Describe, Express

  12. The New Bunny Hop - Skills: Participate, One Mindfully, Non-judgmentally, Effectiveness, Opposite Action to Shame, Urge Surfing

  13. Log Jam - Skills: Participate, one-mindfully, effectively, non-judgmentally

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about Mindfulness?

Maximizing Mindfulness

In two 2-hour sessions, we share creative mindfulness tips and tricks as well as help participants learn to use DBT principles to develop new mindfulness practices.

This course is designed for skills trainers, individual therapists, and milieu staff who:

  1. want to increase their understanding of the links between mindfulness and Life Worth Living Goals;

  2. want to improve their development and delivery of mindfulness skills across treatment modes;

  3. want to expand their use of mindfulness to treat therapy-interfering behavior.