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Interpersonal mindfulness: a phenomenological workshop using here-and-now awareness in clinical interviews

INTERPERSONAL MINDFULNESS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL WORKSHOP UTILIZING HERE-AND-NOW AWARENESS IN CLINICAL CONSULTATIONS.

The workshop introduces an interpersonal mindfulness practice aimed at calibrating clinicians’ own attention as an observational tool; the reported benefits are based on subjective feedback, with no controlled outcome data available.

The aim is to introduce interpersonal mindfulness to sharpen clinicians’ phenomenological presence and strengthen diagnostic accuracy and the therapeutic alliance in emotionally charged interviews. The presentation is grounded in a framework in which diagnostic classification maps recurring patterns, while phenomenology returns us to the field of lived experience from which these categories are abstracted, drawing on Jaspers’s emphasis on the careful description of subjective experience. The approach uses dyadic exercises and guided reflection, shifting the focus from internal awareness to the relational field and integrating Relational Mindfulness Training (RMT), Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), and Jaspersian phenomenology. The core exercise involves two participants sitting opposite each other and taking turns completing a single sentence (“I notice that”) over several minutes; visual details, sounds, silence, posture, breathing, bodily sensations, thoughts, emotions, shifts in attention, and changes in the atmosphere between the pair are named as transient phenomena. The poster also emphasizes that both an external observational perspective on the patient and a perspective that seeks to understand the patient’s world from within are necessary, that description should precede interpretation (for example, distinguishing the observation “your voice became quieter; you looked at the door” from the interpretation “you became anxious”), and that the quality of clinical observation depends on the calibration of the clinician’s attention. Subjective feedback from previous workshops reported deeper attention, improved emotional contact, and increased tolerance of silence and uncertainty, empathy, and presence; the author explicitly states that these observations suggest acceptability but are preliminary and derive from training experience rather than controlled outcome data. In conclusion, interpersonal mindfulness is presented as a practical form of skills training that brings together cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic frameworks.

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