Prof Craig Hassed
Director of Education, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
Professor Craig Hassed OAM has been working within the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University since 1989. He now also teaches into a number of other faculties and is coordinator of mindfulness programs across Monash. His teaching, research and clinical interests include mindfulness, mind-body medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine and medical ethics. Craig developed and integrated into the Monash medical curriculum the world-first mindfulness-based healthy lifestyle course called the Health Enhancement Program.
Craig was the founding president of Meditation Australia, is a regular media commentator, and has published 13 books and 14 book chapters. Craig featured in the documentaries, The Connection, and My Year of Living Mindfully. He co-authored with Richard Chambers the two free online Mindfulness courses in collaboration with Monash University and FutureLearn, both of which are rated by Class Central among the leading online courses in the world. In 2019 Craig was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Medicine.
Workshop Topic:
Mindfulness and Health Professional Education
Mindfulness is a generic skill with a wide variety of applications many of which are relevant to medical education and clinical practice including managing attention in complex environments, reducing stress and cognitive errors, and improving focus, mental health, communication, compassion and decision making. There are many potential challenges to successfully introducing and integrating mindfulness into medical medical education especially when taking a whole cohort approach rather than as an elective for students who are already interested and motivated.
This workshop will explore some of the insights gained from over three decades of experience at Monash of introducing mindfulness into medical curriculum. Important considerations include providing the evidence base, language, contextualisation, clinically and personally relevant applications, and taking a deep learning approach. We will also explore the ‘four F’s of integrating mindfulness – be flexible with the form but faithful to the philosophy.
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