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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The Center for Mindful Living is pleased to offer workshops and seminars designed for health care practitioners. Our offerings include professional development seminars, some with continuing education credits, and retreats to enhance personal well being and the integration of mindfulness into one's professional life. In additional to our scheduled programs we are available for individual professional consulting. Please contact the Center for more information.

 

 


 

 

SHELTER IN THE STORM: TEACHING MBSR TO WOMEN WITH SEXUAL TRAUMA HISTORIES AND COMPLEX PTSD
8th Annual International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators: Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for Mindfulness
April 7-11, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort, Worcester, MA

Facilitators: Trish Magyari, MS, Char Wilkins, LCSW

Register: www.umassmed.edu/cfm

This is a practical experiential half-day workshop focused on addressing the teaching challenges posed by women with complex trauma histories (especially childhood sexual abuse) using lecture, demonstrations, role-play, small group discussion and question/answer periods. This workshop is for MBSR teachers and therapists who wish to make their groups more sensitive to this population as well as for those offering classes specifically for traumatized populations. Our experience and research data have given us confidence that MBSR is an appropriate and helpful intervention for those healing from complex trauma, given a mindful awareness by the teacher to the curriculum and participants’ stages of healing. Additional information


MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY-TEACHER
TRAINING INTENSIVE

May 29–June 4, 2010
University of California at San Diego, Center for Mindfulness.
Training will be held at the IONS Retreat Center, Petaluma, CA. 

Facilitators: Char Wilkins, LCSW and Susan Woods, LICSW.

Details and registration: http://cme.ucsd.edu/mindfulness/mbct_tti_052910_home.html

this program is an advanced training for those professionals who have facilitated at least one MBCT group and who have an established personal mindfulness practice. The program is designed to cultivate an in-depth exploration of the themes, practices and exercises embedded in the MBCT curriculum and to foster sustained attentiveness to personal practice. The training is highly interactive and highlights the necessity of personal practice as a platform from which to teach.


THE PRACTICE OF MINDFUL EATING: A 5-DAY PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
September 12-17, 2010
University of California at San Diego, Center for Mindfulness.
Training will be held at the IONS Retreat Center, Petaluma, CA. 

facilitators: Char Wilkins, LCSW and Rochelle Voth, PhD.

Details and registration

The focus of this professional training/retreat is the exploration of the intersection of mindfulness, eating and food. This explicitly experiential program emphasizes immersion in both formal and informal mindfulness meditation practices and eating awareness exercises. This training will support/enhance participants’ personal meditation practice which is the essential foundation for incorporating mindfulness into the experience of eating, and will provide practical ways of teaching mindfulness (or mindful eating) in clinical settings.


INVESTIGATING AWARENESS: A 5-DAY TRAINING RETREAT FOR PROFESSIONALS

November 11-14, 2010
The Guest House Retreat Center, Chester, CT.
About the Guest House Retreat Center: www.theguesthousecenter.org

Facilitators: Char Wilkins, LCSW and Susan Woods, LICSW

Details and registration

This retreat/training is focused on exploring the relevance of formal and informal mindfulness practice in terms of our personal well-being and professional intention. The heart of these five days lies in exploring how the embodiment of mindfulness practice can not only inform our personal lives, but transform how we experience our relationship to our professional life. Even when it is our intention to take better care of ourselves, we often neglect our own self-care, falling into old habitual ways of thinking and reacting that aren’t useful. We ask the question: What if I live my work as my practice? What would my work look like? This program is both experiential and didactic, and it invites group discussion and provides time for self-reflection.

This program is appropriate for therapists, clinicians, educators, healthcare professionals, nutritionists, and yoga instructors who want to strengthen a personal mindfulness practice and skills with clients, patients, students, and others in their lives.
 


 

 


 

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