{"id":1397,"date":"2011-08-16T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2011-08-16T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:08:39","slug":"bangor-foundation-assignment-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/1397","title":{"rendered":"Bangor Foundation Assignment 2 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yet-another-lighthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1403\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px; margin-top: 5px;\" title=\"yet another lighthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yet-another-lighthouse-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yet-another-lighthouse-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yet-another-lighthouse-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/yet-another-lighthouse.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Attached is my second assignment from the Bangor Mindfulness course which has now been marked. This is the document as submitted but with my name and copyright information added.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Foundation_Assigment_2_blog_version.pdf\">Foundation_Assigment_2_blog_version.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got 64% which translates as a &#8216;B&#8217;. The marker made some kind comments about my &#8220;highly original ideas&#8221; but rightly points out that this becomes the focus of the essay and marks me down accordingly. You can judge for yourself what you think of the assignment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my defence I&#8217;d like to point out that my strategy of defining a model that represented how I interpreted<strong> my experiences<\/strong> and then relating that model to the foundations of mindfulness seemed like a reasonable strategy at the time (would I really have done something unreasonable). Perhaps it was too sophisticated an approach to take and something more straightforward was expected. I should of worked through the foundations of mindfulness and mapped my experience onto them being careful to ignore the ones that didn&#8217;t fit and embroidering ones that did. But I&#8217;m not clever enough for that! This is a theme for me &#8211; always over complicating things.<\/p>\n<p>If you are reading the assignment out of the context of the course it may be useful to have a list of the foundations of mindfulness before you start. There is a list in the course hand book and there are a series of subheadings in <em>Full Catastrophe Living<\/em>. For the assignment I chose to ignore the ones in the course handbook as I couldn&#8217;t see how they relate to those in FCL although the hand book claims to be based on the FCL list. There is, for example, no &#8220;non-judging&#8221; although that could possibly be mapped to (e) in which case what does Kabat-Zinn&#8217;s &#8220;Acceptance&#8221; map to? Both lists are clearly talking about the same thing but to me (this is a personal opinion that will sound like sour grapes at not getting an &#8216;A+++&#8217; ) there seems to be a lack of academic rigour here. One list contains eleven things and the other seven yet there is no explanation as to the how and why of the derived list. Perhaps I missed something &#8211; again a familiar sensation! In arrogance I believe I do a better job of linking my model to the literature than the course hand book does linking its list. You can judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow I hope you enjoy reading the assignment.<\/p>\n<h2>Foundations of Mindfulness from Course Handbook<\/h2>\n<p>Attitudinal foundations of mindfulness (adapted from Kabat- Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living pp33-40)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(a) Being able to stay in the present moment, and letting go of striving to attain particular goals<\/li>\n<li>(b) Awareness of own personal internal process \u2013 body sensations, emotions, mood states, and thoughts<\/li>\n<li>(c) Awareness of actions in personal process with others, within student group, and in life and work<\/li>\n<li>(d) Ability to observe and decentre from personal processes, and describe them from a wider perspective<\/li>\n<li>(e) Development of openness to and acceptance of experience, internal and external<\/li>\n<li>(f) Friendliness, kindness, compassion towards own and others\u2019 personal process<\/li>\n<li>(g) Interest in and curiosity about personal experience and learning process<\/li>\n<li>(h) Being <strong>patient<\/strong> with and accepting of own and other\u2019s pace of development<\/li>\n<li>(i) Willingness to<strong> let go<\/strong> of judgements (especially critical ones) while honing the ability to discriminate between e.g. skilful(sic) and unskilful(sic) modes of mind, actions, etc.<\/li>\n<li>(j) Willingness to see experience freshly (\u2018<strong>beginner\u2019s mind<\/strong>\u2019), rather than through perspectives of previous learning or beliefs, and to be open to \u2018not knowing\u2019<\/li>\n<li>(k) Demonstrating <strong>trust<\/strong> in own (and others\u2019) experience, and in using mindfulness to deal with difficult aspects of it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Foundations of Mindfulness from Kabat-Zinn Full Catastrophe Living<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Non-Judging<\/li>\n<li>Patience<\/li>\n<li>Beginners Mind<\/li>\n<li>Trust<\/li>\n<li>Non-striving<\/li>\n<li>Acceptance<\/li>\n<li>Letting Go<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attached is my second assignment from the Bangor Mindfulness course which has now been marked. This is the document as submitted but with my name and copyright information added. Foundation_Assigment_2_blog_version.pdf. I got 64% which translates as a &#8216;B&#8217;. The marker made some kind comments about my &#8220;highly original ideas&#8221; but&#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-1397","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\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}