Rising Center is an organization dedicated to mindful interventions for personal growth and awakening.
Resources
Want to learn more about mindfulness and special needs? Some of our favorite organizations, thinkers and books are listed below! Contact us to learn more about how mindfulness can impact your or your child’s life.
Websites
Asperger/Autism Network (AANE): aane.org
The Federation for Children with Special Needs: fcsn.org
Insight Meditation Society: dharma.org/about-us
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center: cambridgeinsight.org
Sharon Salzberg: sharonsalzberg.com
Books
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening - Joseph Goldstein (2013)
The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening―seeds that we can cultivate to bring forth the fruits of a life lived consciously. With Mindfulness, Joseph Goldstein shares the wisdom of his four decades of teaching and practice in a book that will serve as a lifelong companion for anyone committed to mindful living and the realization of inner freedom.
Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness - Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990)
Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology—shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing.
Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom - Gregory Kramer (2007)
Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It’s a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight. Then, you take that insight on into the grind of everyday human interactions. Gregory Kramer has been teaching the practice (which he originated) for more than a decade in retreats around the world.
Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for young children - Amy Saltzman (2004)
A Still Quiet Place presents an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program that therapists, teachers, and other professionals can use to help children and adolescents manage stress and anxiety in their lives, and develop their natural capacities for emotional fluency, respectful communication, and compassionate action. The program detailed in this book is based on author Amy Saltzman’s original curriculum, which has helped countless children and adolescents achieve significant improvements in attention and reduced anxiety.
Mindsight - Daniel J. Siegel (2010)
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life. Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients heal themselves from painful events in the past and liberate themselves from obstacles blocking their happiness in the present.