ABSTRACT
First, participants are guided in short practices as part of the assigned curriculum and are also given short practices as home practices. The second is by example, such as when short practices are spontaneously used by the teacher at appropriate moments during the sessions to support participants to reconnect to their direct experience. Short practices may be movement based or more commonly, short sitting practices using a chosen anchor as a focus of attention. MBCT regards the short practices, specifically the 3SBS, as a core element of the curriculum. In MBSR, equivalent short practices are generally a loosely structured 'pause', using a chosen anchor to encourage participants to drop into being mode or, a more structured practice based on the acronym STOP. Remember that the short practice is used in a given session should not be a surprise to participants in terms of skills or understanding.
