{"id":1160,"date":"2011-04-25T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T08:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2011-05-23T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:18:41","slug":"bangor-mindfulness-foundation-assignment-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/1160","title":{"rendered":"Bangor Mindfulness: Foundation Assignment 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that our Foundation Module first assignment has been marked and in the spirit of openness can now post my assignment here. I got a B- for it. The comments were that I could have said more on my experiences in turning towards a new way of practicing and that I should have mentioned more of the attitudinal foundations of mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>I am bothered by the founation module in that any comment on the nature of the eight week course being suboptimal or even inappropriate is alway greeted with a suggestion that the problem lies with the student. It is always the student who can&#8217;t handle the demands of the course and has to work with their aversion. Always the student who is in some kind of denial.<\/p>\n<p>I can take the rules and regulations of the various Buddhist traditions I have had contact with to heart without a problem so why should I have a problem with the the eight week MBCT\/MBSR course? I can&#8217;t help feeling that the reason I have &#8220;resistence&#8221; to the way these course are delivered is because the course is &#8216;wrong&#8217;. Maybe wrong just for me or may wrong in general.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to think that if I had got an A+ I&#8217;d have still made these comments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Hyam_Foundation_Module_1_blog_version.pdf\">Hyam_Foundation_Module_1_blog_version.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that our Foundation Module first assignment has been marked and in the spirit of openness can now post my assignment here. I got a B- for it. The comments were that I could have said more on my experiences in turning towards a new way of practicing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangor-msc","category-mindfulness_buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}