Ongoing Training for Clinicians

I offer ongoing small-group training for clinicians interested in exploring and refining their use of mindfulness in clinical practice, in monthly sessions of 1.5 hours. Monthly sessions are flexibly scheduled on Saturdays to match the availability of group members. Other days may be possible if there is enough interest. Groups may be held by teleconference.

Many of the members have already taken my clinician training course, but any clinicians with good grounding in mindfulness and meditation techniques are welcome to inquire.

The ongoing training sessions are tailored to the needs and interests of group members, and can involve the following elements:

Use of current case material to further develop a mindfulness perspective in client care and learn how to address obstacles to being present.
Development of your personal mindfulness practice, as the basis of your ability to use mindfulness with others.
Relational mindfulness as both method and goal in the clinical session.
Exploring the impact of your mindful presence in the treatment dyad, including issues of safety, empathy, dissociation, presence in relationship.
Introduction of more mindfulness/meditation techniques from the traditional and clinical research canon, and how they may apply to your practice and treatment of clients with special characteristics.
Discussion of insights from neuroscience research related to clinical practice and mindfulness/meditation, such as attention, somatic awareness and interoception, memory plasticity/reconsolidation and neurobiological models of danger and safety.