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2-Day Intensive Training: Mindfulness Certification Course

This 2-day Certification training is your chance to become a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP) and get the skills and guidance you need to successfully incorporate mindfulness practices into your treatment plans!

And unlike other Mindfulness Certification programs that are too expensive, too time consuming, and require extensive travel, this training is completely within your reach!

Dr. Debra Alvis is a clinical psychologist and expert on mindfulness who developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia. Dr. Alvis lectures and leads retreats around the world and her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians to integrate the richness of Mindfulness into therapy for greater clinical effectiveness.

Watch her during this 2-day intensive training and get:

How-to instruction on using mindfulness-based exercises with clients working through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, anger, and addiction
Specific guidance on using mindfulness with individuals and groups
Feedback and tips on how you can strengthen your personal mindfulness practice

Purchase today, enhance your clinical practice, and fundamentally improve the lives of your clients as a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP)!

BONUS!!!

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of using mindfulness in counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/c mip for details.

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Program Information

Objectives

Review the empirical support concerning the clinical applications of mindfulness.
Utilize easy to understand language to describe how mindfulness affects the neurological processes underlying clinical disorders.
Assess for potential contraindications for the use of mindfulness with clients.
Apply mindfulness skills to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
Employ mindfulness practices to impact the stress reaction and shift clients to a relaxation response.
Use the mindfulness skills of awareness and metacognition to counter automatic thought patterns related to anxiety and depression.
Apply loving-kindness meditations to increase client well-being and relationship quality.
Practice the use of R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Attachment) to identify triggers and work with cravings that could lead to addiction relapse.
Utilize present-moment awareness and deep breathing practices to manage physiological and emotional anger responses.
Employ grounding techniques and breathing exercises to increase feelings of safety in traumatized clients.
Integrate brief mindfulness practices into clinical treatment to improve client engagement.
Demonstrate the three steps of the Giving and Receiving Self-compassion practice to increase clinician presence and improve clinical outcomes.
Adapt mindfulness practices for diverse populations to improve clinical efficacy.

Outline

Mindfulness and the Clinician:
“Know What You Teach” and “Teach What You Know”

Empirical support for improved symptomology and well-being
The latest research on therapists who practice mindfulness
Your mindfulness practice and how you can embody mindfulness
Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness in session
Research limitations

Mindfulness Psychoeducation Approaches:
Easy to Use Strategies to Enhance Motivation in Therapy

Mindfulness vocabulary
Visuals and metaphors to explain mindfulness
Motivate clients with neuroplasticity

Deepen the Therapeutic Relationship:
Build Presence, Trust and Empathetic Connection with Clients

Overcoming barriers
Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
Strategies to create empathetic connection
Exercises to build clients trust in themselves

Teach Mindfulness to Clients:
Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices

Tips for teaching clients about the senses and awareness
Strategies to shift from “Automatic Pilot”
Skill building interventions to increase responsiveness & reduce reactivity
Strategies to cultivate attunement
Approaches for deepened experience of mindfulness
Brief and other informal practices
How to adapt practices to special populations

Group Therapy vs. Individual Sessions

Effectiveness of group vs. individual mindfulness
How to set up and conduct a mindfulness group
- Screening for individual goodness of fit
- Encouraging client buy-in and commitment to practice
Mindfulness interventions specifically designed for groups

Anxiety and Stress:
Mindfulness Interventions to Relax the Body and Mind

Breathing practices that break the rumination cycle
Guided visualizations to lower the stress response
Movement strategies
Multi-sensory regulation techniques
Mindfully reduce the intensity of panic attacks

Mindfulness for Trauma:
Disempower Intrusive Thoughts

Muscle tension releasing – exercises to counter fight or flight
Guided meditations to disempower intrusive thoughts
Grounding exercises and sample scripts

Using Mindfulness in Depression Treatment

Recognize self-criticism and respond with self-love
Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
Meditations to boost well-being

Mindfulness for Addictions: Break the Habit Loop

Awareness vs. autopilot -- relapse prevention
Mindfulness for triggers
Emotional regulation for cravings

Mindful Anger: Breathing and Self-Soothing Techniques

Breathe through anger
Distraction and grounding techniques
Self-soothe with calming words and imagery

Mindfulness, Diversity, & Cultural Humility

Adapt mindfulness experiences with cultural sensitivity
Assess appropriateness of mindfulness interventions for individuals
Negotiate the treatment plan

Mindfully Conquer Compassion Fatigue

Right here/right now – stay in the moment to reduce anxieties
Effective and healthy ways to manage your emotions
Change limiting stories about caring for yourself
Release the negative – 3 steps to countering negativity bias

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
School Counselors
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/06/2020

15 Must-Have Mindfulness Techniques for Clinicians

From depression and anxiety to stress and trauma, mindfulness has demonstrated its ability to help reduce suffering. With all its benefits, mindfulness is now widely used in clinical practice. There are literally hundreds of mindfulness interventions available to clinicians. But with so many to choose from, how do you know which to use? How do you decide on your “go-to” techniques?

Terry Fralich has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and with some of the American pioneers in the mindfulness field. With more than 20 years teaching mindfulness and using mindfulness techniques in his clinical practice, Terry has distilled the sea of available techniques into the essential hands-on mindfulness skills and exercises you need to treat your clients.

Join Terry, and learn to effectively use 15 mindfulness practices you can incorporate into your treatment plans for depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma. Terry will guide you through the specific exercises that he’s found most capable in shifting clients away from stress responses, intervening in the downward spiral of depression and anxiety, and cultivating safety and groundedness in traumatized clients. In addition, he’ll give you detailed instruction on his top mindfulness interventions to help your clients properly deal with guilt and shame and empower them to manage their anger and toxic emotions.

As an additional benefit, you’ll have the opportunity to practice the application of what you’ve learned under Terry’s expert supervision.

Enhance your clinical practice with mindfulness skills that work!

Program Information

Objectives

Assess the neurological processes and how mindfulness can to increase client’s motivation.
Determine how mindfulness practices can be used to shift clients to a relaxation response.
Integrate mindfulness interventions into your treatment plans to counter automatic patterns of negative thoughts.
Demonstrate how mindfulness and breathing techniques can be practiced in-session to increase emotion regulation.
Analyze the neurobiology of the traumatized brain and implement grounding techniques and breathing exercises.
Appraise the clinical utility of mindfulness-based therapies in regulating shame and guilt.

Outline

Reduce Stress with Mindful Coping Skills

Educate the client about the impact of stress
Practice makes perfect – transform the stress response
Exercises
- Strengthen awareness of the stress response
- Shifting to relaxation response: cultivate a foundation of groundedness, settledness, and ease
- Mindful transitions
Treatment limitations, risks and research

Manage Depression and Anxiety with Mindfulness Techniques That Work

The downward spiral and the brain’s default mode
Cultivate motivation and action
Witness the anxious mind
Get unstuck from anxious rumination
Exercise:
- Self-regulation practices for anxiety

Mindfulness as the Antidote to Anger

Understand the sources of anger
The body’s anger response
Identify early signs of the anger forest fire
Clarify the practice: What am I trying to remember?
Exercise:
- Rehearsal of the Stop-Breathe-Reflect-Choose practice

Calm the Traumatized Brain

Proceed with caution – avoid retriggering and retraumatizing
Retrain the dysregulated nervous system
Cultivate safety
Exercises:
- Grounding techniques
- Breathing techniques
- Positive visualization

Transform the Inner Critic: Mindfully Deal with Guilt and Shame

Identifying primary core negative belief
Cultivating a healthy and true vision of self
Exercises:
- The protective quality of mantras
- Exercises that promote self-forgiveness

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Therapists
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

eBook: The Mindfulness Toolbox for Relationships

Self * Family * Lover * Friends * Community * Workplace * World

In a world that is rapidly and ever-changing, all the connections in our life demand more of us.

Whether loving or stressful, or both, balancing these relationships is tough. Fortunately, mindfulness practices show you how to make lasting relationships that are more manageable, meaningful, compassionate, and collaborative.

Award-winning mindfulness author and expert Donald Altman delivers practical mindfulness tools that relieve stress and enhance daily living. Easy-to-use, detailed handouts offer freedom from old, stuck habits while providing life-affirming strategies for healthy, fulfilling, sustainable connections of all kinds.

- Moving past crisis in your romantic relationship
- Bringing more wellness and balance into your life
- Healing strained family relationships
- Practices for acceptance, compassion and forgiveness
- Finding commonalities in a divided country
- Learning from the wisdom and lessons that nature offers
- Developing healthy technology boundaries

Digital Card Deck: Growing Mindful 2nd Edition

This favorite resource for therapists, educators, parents and kids, makes teaching and incorporating mindfulness into your home, classroom and therapy session super easy and fun.

Now in its 2nd Edition-the updated Growing Mindful card deck features 56 unique mindfulness activities to teach awareness, how to be present in the moment, and cultivate kindness and curiosity. Perfect for all ages!