1.Articulate principles of mindful practice, including attentive observation, critical curiosity, beginner's mind, and presence.2.Enhance self-care and resilience through engaging in contemplative, narrative, and reflective exercises.3.Bring mindfulness skills to professional contexts in an ongoing and sustainable way. Palliative care, which promotes compassionate care amid serious illnesses, depends on practitioners’ ability to cultivate attentiveness, self-compassion, resilience, and mindfulness in their interactions with patients, families, and colleagues. AAHPM prioritizes “identifying opportunities for enhanced self-care and resilience” as a key objective for its annual assembly sessions. Yet few structured opportunities exist for practitioners to develop resilience amid the unpredictability and stresses of palliative care practice. This workshop will offer an experiential introduction to mindful practice—“moment-to-moment purposeful attentiveness to one's own mental processes during everyday work with the goal of practicing with clarity and compassion.” The format is based on intensive courses for health professionals that have resulted in greater empathy and psychosocial orientation while reducing clinician burnout and promoting well-being. We will introduce principles of mindful practice, secular contemplative practices applicable to clinical settings, narrative and appreciative inquiry exercises, and research literature on the effectiveness of mindfulness training on clinical care, building on intellectual foundations outlined in two seminal articles in The Journal of the American Medical Association on mindful practice (Epstein, 1999; Krasner et al 2009). The theme of the workshop will be “witnessing suffering.” After discussing principles of mindful practice and mindful communication, we will introduce brief contemplative exercises, including guided mindfulness meditation, a secular practice that involves applying conscious attention to bodily sensations, thoughts, and feelings to promote self-awareness and awareness of one's environment. A narrative reflective writing exercise will draw upon personal clinical experiences related to suffering; in small groups, participants will take turns telling and listening to each other's stories using techniques of reflective questioning. Next, we will offer and practice ways in which brief mindfulness exercises can be applied to clinical practice. There will be ample time for discussion about how to grow and sustain mindful practice in participants’ own work settings.