Practicum in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Living Inside Participant-Practitioner Perspectives 

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Participants in a Practicum seminar

The Practicum provides an opportunity for you to experience an MBSR class as taught by senior CFM teachers. Taking the MBSR class along with regular program participants gives you the opportunity to directly experience the impact of MBSR on your life and practice.

This program allows you to immerse yourself in the CFM approach to learning, growing, human development, and healing. You will also engage in a seminar with your teacher and fellow Practicum participants in which you will have the opportunity to explore issues and questions arising out of your experience of the class, engage in guiding other seminar participants in formal and informal mindfulness practice, and study the contextual background of MBSR.

There are two versions of the Practicum: the Eight-week and the Nine-day Intensive.
Please click on the individual names below, to learn more about each specific format. 

***  The Eight-week Seminar Practicum  requires weekly attendance at an eight-week MBSR class and includes 70 hours of instruction.

***  The Nine-day Intensive Practicum, which is intended for trainees who live far from the Center for Mindfulness in Worcester, MA, includes a five-day residential MBSR retreat followed by a 4-day residential seminar, and consists of 66 hours of instruction. 

 

Learning Objectives

  1. Educate and train physicians and other health care professionals in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR),
  2. Provide physicians "in vivo" learning with medical patients referred to the MBSR intervention,
  3. Discuss and analyze the theoretical, philosophical, pedagogical, and scientific underpinnings of MBSR.
  4. Examine MBSR within the larger fields of mind-body and integrative medicine.
  5. Review and critique MBSR and other mindfulness-based research and scientific literature 
  6. Facilitate a coherent, active international network of MBSR professionals.

 

Prerequisites for Eight-Week Seminar and Nine-Day Intensive

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A personal meditation practice is required.
  • Participation in at least one 5-10 day silent, teacher-led mindfulness meditation retreat.

Preferred Qualifications (preference will be given to those with one or more of the following):

 

Program Dates

Eight-Week Practicum 

Summer 2012*
June 18 - August 10 -- Application Deadline: April 27, 2012 [This course is now full with a waiting list.]
Instructor: TBA

*all classes held in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Additional sessions of the 8-week Practicum are being planned for the fall of 2012 and for the winter, spring, and summer of 2013. An updated schedule will be posted on this web page during the summer of 2012.

 

Nine-Day Intensive

9 Day Intensive - Summer 2012 - USA
      July 1-10 - Rhinebeck, New York and Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (first five days in Rhinebeck, final four days in Shrewsbury)
      Application Deadline: April 12, 2012  [This course is now full with a waiting list.]
      Instructors: Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA and Melissa Blacker, MA

Additional sessions of the 9-Day Intensive Practicum are being planned for 2013. Information regarding these sessions will be posted on this web page during the summer of 2012.

 

Program Fees

Application fee: $50, payable to the CFM

Tuition: $1,800, payable to the CFM
Room and board fees are additional.

Additional notes for applicants to the 9-Day Intensive (USA trainings only):

  • The Nine-Day Intensive also requires an additional $445* tuition fee for the included Mindfulness Tools for Living the Full Catastrophe workshop.
  • Registration for the Mindfulness Tools workshop should be made after acceptance notification for the 9-Day Intensive Practicum. Instructions on how to register for Mindfulness Tools will be given with the acceptance letter for Practicum.
  • Applicants may wish to budget approximately $175 per night for room and meals. Exact costs will be include in the acceptance letters.

    *Tuition for Mindfulness Tools for Living the Full Catastrophe is subject to change.

 

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How to Apply

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