MINDFULNESS - BASED STRESS REDUCTION
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Step away from struggling with past regrets and future worries,
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Manage stress and medical conditions,
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Concentrate on your breathing as a sanctuary during challenging times,
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Soothe the storm of thoughts in your mind,
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Decide to treat yourself with more kindness and compassion
If you would like to...
This course is for you.
This 8-week online stress reduction course, including an orientation and half-day retreat, is based on intensive training in mindfulness. This course is being offered via Zoom.
Earn 26 CE credits upon completion for psychologists, licensed mental health care counselors, social workers, and educators.
Orientation Session
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Course Dates
Tuesdays, October 15 - December 3, 2024 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (EST)
Retreat
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Description of the Course
The 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course was initially targeted to individuals with chronic health problems, helping them to cope with the effects of pain, illness, and the impact of these conditions on their lives. Today MBSR is taught to people worldwide experiencing challenges in all areas of life.
The motivation for many to enroll in MBSR begins with wanting to live in a way that incorporates key aspects of presence, awareness, and a sense of being in touch with oneself.
Through the regular training in mindfulness that an MBSR course offers, participants become familiar with their behavior patterns, especially in stressful situations. They also learn that though they cannot always change the circumstances they find themselves in, they can choose how to respond to them.
In MBSR this process is described as going from reacting to responding. This change creates a clearer perception of present circumstances by being in touch with your thoughts, sensations, and emotions.
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Psychologists, Licensed Mental Healthcare Workers, Social Workers, and Educators can earn 26 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) upon completion of the course.
Course Type
Experiential program for small or large groups, with systematic training on mindfulness and meditation practices. The standard MBSR course consists of eight, weekly sessions of 2 to 3 hours each, plus an all-day session after the sixth week that includes a full day of mindfulness practice in a modified retreat format.
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Each session starts with a mindfulness exercise that the participants have learned during the weekly sessions. The main exercises of the MBSR program are the body scan, gentle yoga, and sitting meditation. Throughout the course of the program, participants will practice one of these exercises every day. In addition, there are various exercises centered on incorporating mindfulness practices into daily life. Other exercises train mindful awareness of thoughts, sensations, and emotions.
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Each session focuses on a particular topic that is explored with specific exercises, as well as presentations from the teacher and dialogue among the group participants. Some topics in an MBSR course are mindful communication, working with difficult emotions, and how perception influences our relationship to stressful events.
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There's also time for participants to share what they experienced during the exercises and to talk about their daily mindfulness practice outside of class.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn a collection of informal and formal meditation and mindfulness practices and cultivate a system to integrate them into your everyday life.
2. Approach your life with more composure, energy, understanding, and enthusiasm.
3. Develop the ability to cope more effectively with both short-term and long-term stressful
situations, gaining an understanding of how to respond rather than react.
4. Grow your ability to manage and reduce pain levels.
5. Improve your focus, resilience, and capacity to recover quickly from challenging events.
6. Cultivate a natural ability to actively care for yourself and find greater balance, ease, and peace of mind.
7. Discuss the key aspects of mindfulness as they relate to stress reduction, coping with pain and
illness, and improving well-being.
8. Practice and apply mindfulness techniques in both personal and professional settings to effectively manage the demands of life and to increase positive and peaceful communication.
Dates
Orientation Session
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (EST)
Course Dates Tuesdays,
October 15 - December 3, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm (EST)
Retreat
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EST)
Location
Live Online via Zoom
Tuition: We have income and residency-based support for this course, we would like to see if you qualify for a tuition waiver or scholarship.
About the Instructor
Carolina Bautista-Velez is a Latinx social changer who believes in the power of individual and collective liberation. Through her work as a Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Certified Professional Coach, and Diversity & Trauma Informed Consultant, Carolina works with individuals, groups and organizations by co-creating spaces where her clients can focus on learning sustainable tools to navigate stress, societal conditioning, goals, life/work balance and difficulties.
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Carolina is the founder of CVelez Consulting & Metamorphosis-Coaching. She holds a degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in social psychology and psychoanalysis. Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher by the University of California San Diego. Certified in the Mindfulness Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP).
CE Credit Guidelines
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APA: The HeartWell Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. The HeartWell Institute maintains responsibility for this program and content.
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NBCC ACEP: The HeartWell Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider ACEP No. 7058 for licensed mental health care counselors. Programs that do not qualify for CE credit are clearly identified. The HeartWell Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
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NASW - MA Chapter: Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at info@heartwellinstitute.org for the status of social work CE accreditation.
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MA-DESE: The HeartWell Institute is an approved provider for Professional Development Points (PDPs) for educators. PDPs are awarded after a minimum of 10 hours of programming has been completed. Programs can be combined for this purpose.
