Introductory Articles by Chris Walsh
Mindfulness In Action Techniques
These techniques are useful for bring mindfulness into the activities of everyday life.
Urge Surfing
In action technique for dealing with urges, cravings and addictions.
Initial Problems Practising Mindfulness & Solutions
Why Mindfulness Instructors Need Their Own Regular Practice
The "Just Worrying" Labeling Technique
It turns out that worrying is a quite destructive way of avoiding being mindful that feeds on itself. This technique helps break the vicious cycle.
The Legend of Nasrudin
This article shows how, hundreds of years ago, the Sufis recognised the difficulties negotiating between the extremes of overly skeptical thinking and magical thinking.
Dr Chris Walsh MBBS, DPM, FAChAM is a psychiatrist working in private practice in North Carlton (Melbourne, Australia). He has been working in psychiatry since 1985. In that time, he has worked in hospitals, jails, community settings, and drug and alcohol institutions.
In 1983, as a young doctor Chris did a short stint helping out at the Tibetan refugee hospital in Dharamsala. The Tibetan people's common sense, good humour and happy nature left a lasting impression on him.
Chris's daily mindfulness practice began eighteen months later, at the same time as he began working in psychiatry. As a result mindfulness has been organically integrated into his psychiatric practice from the very start. Chris has a special interest in applying mindfulness meditation practices to psychotherapy. He is formally trained in Self Psychology, but his psychotherapy integrates diverse theoretical frameworks, including cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Gestalt.
Chris also works in the Drug and Alcohol treatment setting and has a strong commitment to promoting use of mindfulness and awareness of family issues in that area.
He is a member of The Family Alcohol and Drug Network (Fadnet) which is a gathering of professionals from the drug and alcohol field with a particular interest in family work. These professionals share a deep respect for families and a common belief in caring for family members affected by problematic substance use. They recognise and value the healing power within families, and also recognise the value of family-aware and family-inclusive practice in the treatment of alcohol and other drug difficulties.
Chris has taken a leading role in family constellation work in Australia. He runs regular workshops, sponsors senior European teachers, and is a foundation member of the Melbourne peer supervisions group. He has given presentations at Australian national professional conferences on both mindfulness and family constellations. Chris is also the founder and moderator of Constellation Talk a very active email chat group with almost 600 subscribers worldwide. He has presented this work around Australia and overseas in the USA, New Zealand and Singapore. He also coordinated the development of the website for the International sytemic Constellations Association (ISCA) www.isca-network.org
Chris has a breadth of experience both in his life as well as his work. When he was a medical student he took a year off from his studies. He spent this year travelling around Australia working as a labourer in factory and farm jobs. He has diverse interests including music, poetry and football and is fluent in Spanish.
Dr Christopher Walsh
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Mindfulness In Individual Cognitive Therapy
Taking advantage of the recent acceptance of mindfulness meditation by cognitive therapists, Chris presented this paper to the 28th National Conference for the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy in April 2005.
Dr Chris Walsh: Specialist Suite 6, Bromham Place, Behind The Melbourne Clinic, 130 Church St, Richmond, Vic 3121, Australia
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