This retreat will offer the opportunity to truly sink into stillness and silence with the context of your life. Though online, the sense of community is very much present and strengthened as we move through the days.

MBSR Intensive Practice and Teaching (IPT) is the second formal training on the pathway to teach MBSR, providing a deeper dive into the MBSR curriculum’s form and essence and greater clarity to its intention, content and flow

As the year and all its intensity come to a close, we invite you to join us for a contemplative and spacious meditation retreat on the beautiful campus of the Dharmakaya Retreat Center for Wellbeing. Creating a nourishing pause before the demands of the holiday season and the start of a new year, we aim to rest and restore our nervous systems, enliven and deepen our meditation practice, and give ourselves the gift of a winter solstice reset.

Jon Aaron will be offering this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway. Teacher-trainees engage fully in an 8-week MBSR program as participant-observers while engaging with other trainees and the instructor in a concurrent, ten-week 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Intersession work and attendance at all sessions is required. More information here.

In the full glory of late Summer, and on the gorgeous campus of the Won Dharma Center with its big skies and rolling hills, we invite you to join us for contemplative and spacious meditation retreat.

Elaine Retholtz will be offering this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway. Teacher-trainees engage fully in an 8-week MBSR program as participants and as observers while engaging with other trainees and the instructor(s) in a 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Full attendance at all sessions is required. The entire program lasts 10 weeks, and happens in person or on-line.

Jon Aaron will be offering this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway. Teacher-trainees engage fully in an 8-week MBSR program as participants and as observers while engaging with other trainees and the instructor(s) in a 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Full attendance at all sessions is required. The entire program lasts 10 weeks, and happens in person or on-line.

Janet Curry and Ruth Lerman will be offering this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway. Teacher-trainees engage fully in an 8-week MBSR program as participants and as observers while engaging with other trainees and the instructor(s) in a 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Full attendance at all sessions is required. The entire program lasts 10 weeks, and happens in person or on-line.

The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat is a 7-day silent meditation retreat held at the Shambhalam Mountain Center in Colorado, co-led by Jon Aaron and Janet Solyntjes. It will emphasize the deep understanding and practice of mindfulness in its most universal expression while respecting and acknowledging its contemplative and spiritual roots.

The MBSR Teacher Advancement Intensive (TAI) fulfills the second-level formal program in the Global Mindfulness Collaborative’s teacher training pathway to becoming certified as an MBSR teacher. The TAI strengthens teaching skills, personal practice, and expands experiential and didactic understanding of the elements of teaching MBSR through. The program is offered in a range of formats, including 3 successive week-ends, or as a multi-day workshop.

In this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway teacher-trainees engage fully in the 8-week MBSR program as participants and as observers. In addition, they engage with other trainees and the instructor(s) in a 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Full attendance at all sessions is required. The entire program lasts 10 weeks, and happens in person or on-line.

In this first step in the MBSR Teacher Training pathway teacher-trainees engage fully in the 8-week MBSR program as participants and as observers. In addition, they engage with other trainees and the instructor(s) in a 3.5 hour seminar exploring the underpinnings, approach, and teacher qualities in which the program is steeped. Full attendance at all sessions is required. The entire program lasts 10 weeks, and happens in person or on-line.