Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, in collaboration with eMindful, the leading provider of purpose-driven mindfulness programs, recently presented groundbreaking findings for a new taxonomy. The taxonomy is expected to advance the field to a targeted, skills-based approach allowing for greater precision in applying mindfulness to clinical conditions. The findings were presented at the 2019 Resilience at Work Conference in Boston.
As mindfulness becomes mainstream and as the market evolves, there is an increase in the demand for more sophisticated programs. There is also a need for using more targeted approaches that build specific skills needed to address a given condition. Therefore, using ratings from highly experienced subject matter experts (SMEs), researchers set out to develop and validate a categorization of skills learned through mindfulness practice, named the eMindful Mindfulness Classification Construct™ (eMCC™).
The original skills list included more than 30 skills, which the SMEs organized into major categories and subcategories. The primary tier contains broader categories like awareness, and the secondary tier breaks it down further, cultivating awareness of specific things.
It is expected that a validated taxonomy will allow clinicians to develop more targeted applications of mindfulness to build specific skills that are found lacking in particular conditions for maximum impact. This ability would be an asset as the skills required by a person struggling with social anxiety is different from those required by a person in the grips of depression.
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