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Stress reduction retreat slated for May 16 Take one day from your busy professional schedule to make peace and quiet your top priority. Learn to practice mindfulness meditation in a natural setting with colleagues who understand the stresses of your work world. Apply simple awareness techniques to daily activities such as sitting, walking and eating. Discuss strategies for integrating mindfulness into your daily routine, and develop a personalized plan for reaching your stress management goals. Mindfulness-based stress reduction is a program of mind-body exercise, which has been found to relieve a wide variety of physical and emotional symptoms related to stress.   Join MUSC psychiatric consultation liaison nurse Ramita Bonadonna, Ph.D., at the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction: Retreats for Health Care Professionals May 16 at the MUHA Warehouse Conference Center located at 230 Albemarle Road, Charleston.   The fee for MUSC employees and students is $25. Nurses and social workers may be eligible for continuing education hours.   The course will award 5.5 contact continuing education hours for nurses by the Center for Professional Development of MUHA and is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the South Carolina Nurses Association.   There will also be five contact continuing education hours for social workers by the South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners.    For additional information on the  May 16 course, call 782-5052. Mindfulness-based stress reduction retreat May 16 Name:___________________________________________________ AHEC ID#:_____________________ Birth month:__________Birth day:____Last four digits of SS#:______ Home phone:______________ Address:_____________________________City:_________________ State:_________ZIP Code:________ Employer:____________Employer county:_________Discipline:__________ Job title:_________________ __Check enclosed for $50 ___Check enclosed for $25 MUSC employees (Make checks payable to LC AHEC) The following information is required for our reporting: _____Male     _____Female Please check race: ___American Indian or Alaska Native  ___Asian (not underrepresented)  ___White___Black or African-American  ___Hispanic or Latino  ___Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander  Agenda 8:45 a.m.: Registration 9 a.m.: Introduction and overview 10 a.m.: Break 10:15 a.m.: Instruction and practice 11:45 a.m.: Lunch (vegetarian box lunch included in price) 12:45 a.m.: Instruction and practice 2 p.m.: Break 2:15 p.m.: Practice and commitment to personal plan 3:15 p.m. Conclusion and evaluation Mail payment and form to: Emily Edwards, 302 Medical Park Drive, Suite 100, Walterboro, SC 29488 For information, call 782-5052.     Friday, May 2, 2008 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.