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What does NEURODIVERSITY mean?

WHAT DOES NEURODIVERSITY MEAN?

Neurodiversity refers to the range of natural diversity that exists in human neurodevelopment. The term originated within the neurodivergent community in the 1990s (Botha et al., 2024). People with the most common neurological profiles are referred to as neurotypical or neuromajority. People with less common profiles are referred to as neurodivergent or neurominority. A group that includes both neurotypical and neurodivergent people is called neurodiverse.

Jon Kabat-Zinn sharing an important recently published study

Here is a study, very recently published in JAMA Psychiatry (a top of the line, high impact scientific journal) showing quite definitively that MBSR was as effective as the top of the line drug treatment for anxiety disorders (see paper attached). We think it will inspire you in your work to know that a rigorously designed study supports what we have known for decades.

Resources helpful in our waking up process in relation to race and racism

Resources helpful in our waking up process in relation to race and racism:

Brach, T (2016), Facing my White Privilege, The Lions Roar

Choudhury, S (2016) What We Say, Not What We Do in the The Wise Brain Bulletin, 10,1 (adapted from  Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury. 2015)

Jud Brewer's new book Unwinding Anxiety

Anxiety is a complex, deeply rooted emotion that exerts a stronger force in our lives than we ever imagined.  Anxiety drives anxiety, and is often masked by addictions and bad habits that we cannot break. The brain gets stuck in anxiety habit loops: we continue to procrastinate, we eat the extra cookie, we binge watch Netflix. And it goes without saying that in the year of COVID our anxieties have played a starring role.

The Near and Far Enemies of Fierce Compassion

The Near and Far Enemies of Fierce Compassion

by Dr. Chris Germer

CMSC Co-Founder

September 3, 2020

Social justice work is not for the fainthearted. Now more than ever, we are obliged to acknowledge our own complicity in systems of oppression as well as to assert our individual agency to bring about a better world. Committed action by many people will eventually become a powerful force for systemic change. And yet many of us grapple with some basic questions: “What can I do?” “What should I do?”

 

Deconstructing Mindfulness: Embracing a Complex Simplicity

I’ve been a student of meditative techniques and contemplative traditions for a while. I
have a decades-long personal practice and academic degrees in both religious studies and
psychology. And I have mixed feelings about the kind of attention mindfulness is currently
receiving and the ways it’s often conceptualized today in the West. On one hand, the
fact meditative practices and contemplative experiences are getting increased study I feel
is deeply beneficial and long overdue. On another, with only slight exaggeration, I’m

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