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1. AN INVITATION: TO JOIN COLORADO’S LEADING MIND BODY GROUP • DR. GOPA MUKHERJEE • It is a pleasure to invite you to attend mind body groups led by me. • I have been practicing psychiatry for the last 18 years and teaching for the last 14 years. I have devoted the last 10 years of my professional life to learn and study mind body medicine. In February 2012, I completed my training in the Center for mind body medicine, Washington, D.C. The Center for mind body medicine helped me augment my psychiatry techniques with scientifically-validated mind-body medicine techniques that enhance each person’s capacity for self-awareness and self-care to achieve optimum balance in life. I have developed the group program that I believe best helps participants. HOW EXPERTS DESCRIBE DR. MUKHERJEE BOB BUCKLEY, LCSW, SR. CLINICAL SUPERVISOR CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE, WASHINGTON, DC: Gopa has a tremendous capacity for self-reflection and looking at her growing edges. She is an excellent group facilitator, weaving her own professional use of self with issues that emerge from the group. It has been a privilege and blessing for me to supervise Gopa as she completes her requirements for Certification in Mind-Body Medicine. PETER SILVESTRI, M.D.: I have known Dr. Gopa Mukherjee for many years now, beginning when she was a student of mine during her training, and now as a most valued colleague and trusted friend. Gopa is an unusually skilled, compassionate, experienced psychiatrist and a mature, spiritually developed human being. I was delighted to hear she has decided to offer care integrating mind and body. • WHAT IS IT? • Mind body is a powerful, effective combination of research based healing therapies to help you deal with life changes, stress, and illness in an intimate and supportive group setting. Mind-Body Skills Groups help people to transform the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of their lives by: • Reducing and relieving stress • Increase resistance to disease • Create optimal health • Mind-Body Skills Groups are beneficial for people dealing with life changes. • Divorce • Separation • Bereavement • Menopause • Mind-body skills are the single most important and best documented way to deal with the stress that contributes to chronic illness. • HOW WILL IT WILL EMPOWER YOU? • The mind body groups will empower your growth through effective and research proven skills such as • Meditation to learn to live a content and mindful life • Guided Imagery to use your imagination to help your mind and body heal • Autogenic training (Self Hypnosis) • Biofeedback to learn to use your body’s natural abilities to relax • Breath Work to enhance your health by breathing more fully • Movement to become aware of your body’s natural responses, release stress and increase energy • Journal Writing • Drawing • Mind-body skills help the psychotherapy take place because it gets people into their relaxation response, so that they are better able to understand and change their life’s circumstances. • WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS? • Even though individual results vary, here are some of the major areas of results experienced by group participants •  A decrease in depression and anxiety a heightened sense of well being and engagement in life. • Better coping skills — learning a dependable range of useful tools for managing pain, chronic illness, stress, anxiety and depression. • Fewer physical symptoms of illness — less pain, less fatigue, and more energy. • Enhanced immune system functioning to help the body mobilize itself against illness. • Greater self-awareness and positive perceptions about their own lives — making it easier to handle stress and illness. • WHAT CRONIC ILLNESSES CAN BENEFIT FROM IT? • The groups benefit people with chronic illness including: • Fewer physical symptoms of illness — less pain, less fatigue, and more energy. • Enhanced immune system functioning to help the body mobilize itself against illness. • Greater self-awareness and positive perceptions about their own lives — making it easier to handle stress and illness. • Cancer • Depression and Anxiety • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Fertility Issues • Arthritis • Diabetes • Post Traumatic Stress • HOW TO JOIN A GROUP? • Group membership is by invite only. • To preserve the group dynamics, each member will be selected after a personal phone interview to evaluate their possible fit into the group. • Groups are led by Dr. Gopa Mukherjee. • Groups meet for 8 weeks in the evenings for 2 hours. • Please call for information on next group. WHAT IS A MIND BODY SKILLS GROUP? COLORADO’S LEADING MIND BODY GROUP P: 303-596-8847 GOPA.MUKHERJEE@GMAIL.COM  WWW.DRGOPAMUKHERJEE.COM