This audio provides a Mindful-Presense Practice session by Heather Ferris, as part of the Present-Moment Awareness curriculum on the HEALhealthcare.ca website (link to curriculum).

Now is a time of great change and hardship in the world particularly for those who are suffering disease, displacement, unkindness. Many people have experienced bias through colonization and other systems of domination and oppression. Levels of stress and anxiety are high. We are experiencing shortages of personnel within every segment of our health system. The needs of the task (including prioritizing medication) precede the best interests of the person in many cases. This leads to more stress for caregivers, families, patients and health employees. MINDFULNESS brings us into the present moment, opening our connection to ourselves and others, relieving stress.

Come back to this audio as needed to practice mindful presence.

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca