Mindful Self-Compassion

For mindfulness to become the determining force in our attitude towards life, we need to practice a purposeful kind of attention that we are not usually accustomed to. Dr. Treyvaud is an adult, and child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, of the equivalent college in Switzerland (F... MH) and a full member of the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association. He is also a member of the medical advisory board of the ILC (Improving the Life of Children) Foundation, bringing his expertise in mindfulness to the development of a treatment program for children with chronic pain. His main interest lies in working with adults and adolescents both individually and in groups, providing psychodynamic psychotherapy and mindfulness meditation training. He practices and teaches an integrative approach to medicine, mental health and spirituality. He offers mindfulness meditation training through introductory and advanced meditation programs, retreats and individual sessions. His medical training includes specializations in Mind/Body Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Jungian Psychology, Existential Psychotherapy, Developmental Psychology, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Interpersonal Neurobiology and sensorimotor psychotherapy. With Northrop Frye he studied matters of the imagination and spirituality. His meditation experience goes back many decades and started in the German Black Forest with the first Westerner to become a Zen master and bring Zen to the West, Karlfried Graf Dürckheim. Later Dr. Treyvaud trained under Jon Kabat-Zinn in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as he incorporated mindfulness training in his psychiatric practice. He further deepened his mindfulness training with Shinzen Young in Vipassana insight meditation and with Helen Duquette in the Vanda Scaravelli tradition of Hatha Yoga . Most recently he also trained in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Daniel Siegel at the Mindsight Institute in Los Angeles. With thousands of hours of his own meditation ...Read More