The Design

• Author: Peter Jamadar/Elron Elahie/Richard Jamadar
• Pages: 25-27

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THE DESIGN

Mindfulness, as Intentional Awarenessing, through a Four-Quadrant Model

The central research question was whether cultivating an independent practice of

Intentional Awarenessingspecifically designed to focus intention and awareness in the

four-quadrants, consistently and continuously for at least twenty-seven days, could

improve and enhance a judicial officer’s awareness in the courtroom in these domains,

while actively engaged in hearing court matters and discharging the associated judicial

functions.

To test this, the working hypothesis was based on the capacity of mindfulness practices

to improve and enhance attention and awareness in relation to an object of focus. Jon

Kabat-Zinn, founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of

Massachusetts Medical Centre and Associate Professor of medicine in the Division of

Preventative and Behavioural Medicine, is very much the leading pioneer in the West of

the scientific investigation and verification of the efficacy of mindfulness, particularly in

the domains of health and wellness.34

34 See generally, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress,

Pain, and Illness (Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2013); Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are