A Pragmatic Introduction of Mindfulness in a Continuing Education Setting: Exploring Personal Experience, Bridging to Professional Practice

A brief mindfulness intervention for HCPs utilizing a CME/CPE mechanism is a feasible and effective way to introduce HCPs to a mind/body therapy such as mindfulness. CME/CPE instruction ensures that the information provided is in line with evidenced based practice and an experiential component of the instruction demonstrates for the HCP an appropriate use of CAM with patients.