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Participate in this interactive, experiential workshop and learn short, simple mindfulness practices to:
- Strengthen mental focus.
- Enhance emotional resilience.
- Refine physical awareness and fine-tune technique.
- Master specific ways of working with distracting or negative thoughts and feelings.
- Increase the ability to persevere during periods of challenge, plateau, set-back, and injury.
- Improve mental health.
- Develop systems of self-care.
- Intentionally create a positive, collaborative team culture.
- FIND FLOW
Dr. Saltzman’s passion is working and playing with high performers including— athletes of all ages and abilities (youth athletes: D1 athletes (including a Stanford athlete suffering from multiple injuries who went on to become an NCAA Division 1 MVP, and a PAC-12 freshman of the year); many national champions; elite athletes competing at the international level; and pros), performing artists, and employees and execs from Apple, Google, Stanford, Square, Genetech, US Capital Advisors and others. She wrote A Still Quiet Place for Athletes: Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sports and in Life. The practices you will learn in this workshop have been used by high performers in sports, entertainment, medicine, law, education….
Join us and learn skills that will enhance every aspect of your life— academics, extracurriculars, relationships….
This interactive workshop is one of two sessions offered by Amy Saltzman in the Contemplation By Design Summit. You are welcome to join one or both sessions. The other session is a lecture titled Are you mindful-er than a 3rd grader? The Promises and Perils of Mindfulness in Education on October 18th.
Amy Saltzman, MD is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, scientist, devoted student of transformation, long-time athlete, and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in enhancing their well being and discovering the Still Quiet Place within. She is a pioneer in the fields of mindfulness for youth and began offering mindfulness to youth over 25 years ago.
Dr. Saltzman co-founded and directs the Association for Mindfulness in Education, served on the steering committee for the Mindfulness in Education Network, and chaired the UC San Diego Bridging Hearts and Minds of Youth conference for many years.
She offers mindfulness to students, teachers and parents in pre-K to college, in socioeconomically diverse school and community settings. In collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Stanford University she conducted two research studies evaluating the benefits of teaching mindfulness to child-parent pairs and to children in low-income elementary schools.
She also offers presentations and courses for athletes and teams (including those at Stanford) and business leaders and companies (including Apple, Google, Square, Genetech, and US Capital Advisors).
To support others in discovering the joy and peace applying mindfulness in daily life Dr. Saltzman has written three books:
· A Still Quiet Place for Teens: A Mindfulness Workbook to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions
This session is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 15-27, 2025.
The full summit schedule is posted at: https://med.stanford.edu/contemplation/summit.html.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-contemplation-by-design-summit-2025-online-oct-15-27-registration-1520413249959