Train to facilitate MBSR programs with Susan Woods. This is the second module of our Core MBSR Facilitation Certificate Program.
This 6-day MBSR Intensive Training & Retreat will provide participants with the opportunity to study and experience the foundational underpinnings, mindfulness practices and specific exercises that are the framework of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. The themes, rationales, intention and practice skills of each MBSR session will be reviewed and practised.
In the first part of this highly interactive training, trainees will experience the MBSR program. In the second half of the training, trainees will be given the opportunity to practice facilitating various components of the MBSR program under the supervision and guidance of the teachers.
Inherent in this training is the necessity of a personal mindfulness practice as a platform from which to teach. The delivery of MBSR requires the facilitator to integrate what it means to embody a non-judgmental, present moment focus with an understanding of how this supports and strengthens such mind states as kindness, compassion and equanimity.
This training intensive will utilize didactic and experiential teaching modules. The curriculum includes both large and small group learning, with opportunity for role-play and simulated client-facilitator encounters. There is daily meditation practice, yoga/mindful movement, and periods of silence. The ethical underpinnings of teaching MBSR will be discussed.
Participants Will Learn
• How to articulate the foundational principles of the MBSR program
• To demonstrate the basic MBSR teaching skills
• The central role of mindfulness meditation practice for general wellness and self-care in the regulation of emotions and behaviours
• How to articulate the rationale for a facilitator’s ongoing mindfulness meditation practice in teaching MBSR
• To discuss and outline formal and informal meditative practices and mindfulness as a mode of being in daily life
What To Expect
This training will combine elements of a clinical training workshop and a meditation retreat. You can expect to spend some periods in silence and others in active discussion and interaction. The course will follow a concentrated schedule, starting at 6:30am and ending at 8pm each day. Registrants will not be provided with a detailed agenda beforehand; instead the schedule and time breakdown will be addressed at the opening session of the retreat.
Who Should Attend
This 6-day training intensive is primarily intended for social service workers and other professionals wishing to teach MBSR. Prerequisites for the intensive training include participation in an 8-week MBSR program, formal mindfulness training equivalent to Mindfulness Core Concepts, and a regular mindfulness mediation practice.
Apply Before Registering
If you have not already been accepted into the Applied Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Facilitation Certificate Program, please submit a completed Professional Development Application Form and a copy of your CV to [email protected].
Facilitators
Susan Woods MSW LICSW & Patricia Rockman MD CCFP FCFP
Timing: July 8-14, 2017
Begins Saturday, July 8, 2017
– Check-in at 3pm
– Dinner at 5pm
– Session starts at 7pm
Ends Friday, July 14, 2017
– Session ends at 11:30am
– Check-out after lunch
Fee: $2,350 camping / $2,700 double / $3,200 single
Please Note: no single rooms will be available for immediate registration. Instead, you can register for a “double room – single upgrade waiting list” in case single rooms become available. If you are offered a single room upgrade, you will be asked to bring the additional $500 to the retreat.
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REFUNDS
If you give at least 30 business days' notice prior to the retreat start date, you will receive the full tuition less a $200 fee.
If you give 20 - 29 business days' notice prior to the retreat start date, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you give 10 - 19 business days' notice prior to the retreat start date, you will receive a 25% refund.
If you give less than 10 business days' notice prior to the retreat start date, no refund will be available.
After the retreat has started no refund, exchanges or transfers will be available.
EXCHANGES
If you give at least 20 business days’ notice prior to the retreat start date, you can apply the full tuition amount as a credit to a future course.
If you give 10-19 business days' notice prior to the retreat start date, you can apply 50% of the tuition amount as a credit to a future course.
If you give less than 10 business days’ notice prior to the retreat start date, you can apply 25% of the tuition amount as a credit to a future course.
After the retreat has started no refund, exchanges or transfers will be available.