Table 3.
Overview of content and key themes of individual sessions in bMBI curriculum.
| Session | Mindfulness tenant | Activities | Key session themes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attentive awareness | Introduction to mindfulness, program facilitators, teacher workbooks; group rules; sensory experience exercise; participant goals for program participation; didactics regarding attentive awareness (i.e., types of attention, attentional demands of teachers and students); topic exercise and reflection; group discussion; journal entry; progressive muscle relaxation | Identifying participants’ goals for program participation; daily attentional demands; effects of chronically not cultivating attentive awareness (i.e., “on auto-pilot”) |
| 2 | Receptive attitude | Review of attentive awareness, session one journal entry, in-between notes; introductory exercise; didactics regarding receptive attitude, (i.e., approaching situations with openness, curiosity, and acceptance); topic exercise and reflection; group discussion; journal entry; loving kindness meditation | Operationalizing “approach with curiosity, openness, and acceptance”; effects of non-receptive attitude (i.e., experiential avoidance); willingness; self-compassion |
| 3 | Intentionality | Review of receptive attitude, session two journal entry, in-between notes; review of program goals; introductory exercise; didactics regarding intentionality (i.e., values-based discussion of effort, psychological grit); topic exercise and reflection; group discussion; journal entry; progressive muscle relaxation | Review of program and participant goals; identifying participant values; compassion as a value; competing thoughts and distressing emotions as barriers to intentional behavior; development of SMART goal |
| 4 | Integration | Review of intentionality, session three journal entry, in-between notes; topic exercise and reflection; video presentation; discussion of how three tenants of mindfulness interrelate; discussion of continued application of mindfulness strategies (i.e. barriers, future goals) concluding exercise | Operationalizing and integrating tenants of mindfulness in personal and professional life; identification of barriers to continued practice |