CE Credits Psychologists, Therapists, Counselors & Social Workers
October
Event Details
Dates: Jan - May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days). Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sliding
Event Details
- Dates: Jan – May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days).
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $450 – $2,000. Code BP1T22.
Continuing Education Credits: 18 CE credits available for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
PREREQUISITE
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants are recommended to have attended at least one (1) multi-day residential retreat or multi-day online retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.
DESCRIPTION
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. So much goodness unfolds from this sincerity. Through our practice, we come to understand ourselves, affirm ourselves, and ultimately, transform ourselves. Our own transformation is then leveraged for the welfare of the people we serve.
The classic description of empathy—to stand in someone else’s shoes—presumes that we already know what it is like to stand in our own shoes. With striking clarity, mindfulness reveals what it’s like to stand in our own experience. The intimacy of this encounter with ourselves provides a basis for deep compassion and accurate empathy. This program is not primarily about learning techniques to add to one’s therapeutic repertoire: it is a recognition that, in an important sense, you are the intervention and cultivation of your own being enhances your effectiveness. Techniques flow from your direct understanding and their power depends on the sincerity of your efforts.
This four-month training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds, foster goodness and transform habits that compound suffering. We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits. The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment. We’ll consider possible contraindications of mindfulness and how to tailor the intervention to individuals. It is an attempt to foster a dialogue between the sacred power of Buddhist practice and the scientific study of health, psychological distress and behavior change. Please join us.
PRE-COURSE WORK
Once accepted into the program, all participants will be given access to Foundational Buddhist Teachings, an online course consisting of five daylong retreats. Students are encouraged to review this course material prior to the class to ensure all participants can join our course with a level of shared understanding regarding foundational Buddhist concepts and terms.
PROGRAM DATES
Program training period is January – May 2021. Specific training dates below.
All meeting times are: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Jan 8 & 9 (2 days)
- Feb 12
- March 12
- April 9
- April 30 & May 1 (2 days)
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES
Your participation in this training is important. The cohesion of the group is an important aspect of this training, so participation serves both your own development as well as the group. We ask that you commit to the dates and to participate wholeheartedly.
In addition to course meetings, participants will have opportunities to participate in smaller consult groups with the teacher throughout the program term.
For participants wishing to receive CE credits: In order to receive Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend all sessions live, on time, and in full. Your attendance is tracked carefully to grant your CE credits. Board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance, therefore, incomplete attendance nullifies CE credit eligibility. No exceptions. More information on Continuing Education (CE) credits below.
For participants not wishing to receive CE credits: Attendance at both two-day retreats (January and May) is mandatory. We expect that all participants will also attend each monthly daylong, however, we understand that sometimes there are unavoidable emergencies.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
We generally only offer financial assistance one time a year per person. Choosing the fee you can reasonably afford helps make courses available to all, regardless of ability to pay. No one turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. If you are in need of financial assistance, please email registration@spiritrock.org.
CANCELLATION FEES:
$50 cancel fee* = if cancel >1 week prior to program start
$100 cancel fee* = if cancel between 1 week and 2 days prior to program start
No refunds = if cancel <2 days prior to program start
(*fees reduced for scholarship folks)
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page. to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Describe at least two of the overlaps and differences between mindfulness-based treatment and Buddhist psychology;
- Describe the three clusters of meditative practice: attentional, constructive, deconstructive;
- List five types of emotion regulation;
- Describe the relevance of equanimity for emotional regulation;
- Describe how evolutionary biology informs contemporary understandings of emotion;
- Describe the parallels between Buddhist practice and exposure therapy;
- Explain the role of inflexible self-definition in the generation of difficult emotion;
- Explain the role of the brain’s default mode network and self-referential thought in emotional regulation;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to shame;
- Explain the differences between self-esteem and self-compassion;
- Describe how Buddhist practice is relevant for enhancing the therapeutic alliance;
- Describe three ways in which clinician mindfulness helps manage countertransference;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
CEC Schedule: (All times in US Pacific Time)
Full attendance is required daily 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The CEC instructional sessions are highlighted below.
January 8 – No CECs – full attendance required
January 9
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – Discourse
February 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
March 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 30
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
May 1 – No CECs – full attendance required
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 18 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
View Matthew's upcoming programs or profile.
November
Event Details
Dates: Jan - May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days). Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sliding
Event Details
- Dates: Jan – May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days).
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $450 – $2,000. Code BP1T22.
Continuing Education Credits: 18 CE credits available for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
PREREQUISITE
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants are recommended to have attended at least one (1) multi-day residential retreat or multi-day online retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.
DESCRIPTION
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. So much goodness unfolds from this sincerity. Through our practice, we come to understand ourselves, affirm ourselves, and ultimately, transform ourselves. Our own transformation is then leveraged for the welfare of the people we serve.
The classic description of empathy—to stand in someone else’s shoes—presumes that we already know what it is like to stand in our own shoes. With striking clarity, mindfulness reveals what it’s like to stand in our own experience. The intimacy of this encounter with ourselves provides a basis for deep compassion and accurate empathy. This program is not primarily about learning techniques to add to one’s therapeutic repertoire: it is a recognition that, in an important sense, you are the intervention and cultivation of your own being enhances your effectiveness. Techniques flow from your direct understanding and their power depends on the sincerity of your efforts.
This four-month training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds, foster goodness and transform habits that compound suffering. We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits. The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment. We’ll consider possible contraindications of mindfulness and how to tailor the intervention to individuals. It is an attempt to foster a dialogue between the sacred power of Buddhist practice and the scientific study of health, psychological distress and behavior change. Please join us.
PRE-COURSE WORK
Once accepted into the program, all participants will be given access to Foundational Buddhist Teachings, an online course consisting of five daylong retreats. Students are encouraged to review this course material prior to the class to ensure all participants can join our course with a level of shared understanding regarding foundational Buddhist concepts and terms.
PROGRAM DATES
Program training period is January – May 2021. Specific training dates below.
All meeting times are: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Jan 8 & 9 (2 days)
- Feb 12
- March 12
- April 9
- April 30 & May 1 (2 days)
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES
Your participation in this training is important. The cohesion of the group is an important aspect of this training, so participation serves both your own development as well as the group. We ask that you commit to the dates and to participate wholeheartedly.
In addition to course meetings, participants will have opportunities to participate in smaller consult groups with the teacher throughout the program term.
For participants wishing to receive CE credits: In order to receive Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend all sessions live, on time, and in full. Your attendance is tracked carefully to grant your CE credits. Board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance, therefore, incomplete attendance nullifies CE credit eligibility. No exceptions. More information on Continuing Education (CE) credits below.
For participants not wishing to receive CE credits: Attendance at both two-day retreats (January and May) is mandatory. We expect that all participants will also attend each monthly daylong, however, we understand that sometimes there are unavoidable emergencies.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
We generally only offer financial assistance one time a year per person. Choosing the fee you can reasonably afford helps make courses available to all, regardless of ability to pay. No one turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. If you are in need of financial assistance, please email registration@spiritrock.org.
CANCELLATION FEES:
$50 cancel fee* = if cancel >1 week prior to program start
$100 cancel fee* = if cancel between 1 week and 2 days prior to program start
No refunds = if cancel <2 days prior to program start
(*fees reduced for scholarship folks)
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page. to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Describe at least two of the overlaps and differences between mindfulness-based treatment and Buddhist psychology;
- Describe the three clusters of meditative practice: attentional, constructive, deconstructive;
- List five types of emotion regulation;
- Describe the relevance of equanimity for emotional regulation;
- Describe how evolutionary biology informs contemporary understandings of emotion;
- Describe the parallels between Buddhist practice and exposure therapy;
- Explain the role of inflexible self-definition in the generation of difficult emotion;
- Explain the role of the brain’s default mode network and self-referential thought in emotional regulation;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to shame;
- Explain the differences between self-esteem and self-compassion;
- Describe how Buddhist practice is relevant for enhancing the therapeutic alliance;
- Describe three ways in which clinician mindfulness helps manage countertransference;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
CEC Schedule: (All times in US Pacific Time)
Full attendance is required daily 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The CEC instructional sessions are highlighted below.
January 8 – No CECs – full attendance required
January 9
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – Discourse
February 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
March 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 30
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
May 1 – No CECs – full attendance required
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 18 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
View Matthew's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 5, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 5, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code JS2D21.
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 4 CE credits for $40 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
Anxiety has many root causes ranging from the psychological to the physiological to the historical. No matter the origin, the distress and discomfort are palpable and understandable.
This workshop will explore a variety of ways to approach, meet and be with anxiety as it presents in the body – along with a cultivation of kind understanding about the mental and emotional challenges it presents.
Along with meditation, we’ll soothe the nervous system, and learn to read the signals of anxiety in the body, before they take hold of the mind.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Tentative Schedule: (subject to change)
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Welcome and settling
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Seated and standing practice
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Context and didactic teaching, short practices interspersed
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Q&A
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch and rest break
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Practices, Q&A, short breaks and closing
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 4 CE credits for $40 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Describe a visualization practice that soothes mind and body, that may be used to reduce unease;
- Demonstrate a skillful breath technique that can be used to to relieve anxiety in the body;
- Demonstrate a systematic body scan that can break the cycle of physical and mental tension caused by anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 4 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield
View Jill's profile.
Event Details
Date & Time: Saturday, November 6, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Date & Time: Saturday, November 6, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code OS3D21.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
We make decisions every day—from seemingly inconsequential choices to larger ones that can affect the course of our life. How can the Dharma guide our choices to support integrity and both individual and collective well-being?
In this daylong program, we’ll explore a range of practical tools for making decisions that incorporate meditation, reflection, intuition, and inquiry. You’ll learn how to navigate the choices in your life with more confidence, clarity and ease, as well as how to find more balance with the results of the decisions you make. Our day will include periods of silent meditation, movement, writing, and interactive exercises.
Clinicians will learn several conceptual frameworks to understand the decision-making process; how to identify and strengthen key mental qualities that support making decisions; as well as guided practices to share with clients for making clear decisions.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.***
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Describe mindfulness practices to move from reactive decision making patterns towards wise responses;
- Explain the five stages of clear decision making;
- Use mindfulness techniques to identify the underlying needs and values associated with various permutations of any decision;
- Describe how the principles and experience of equanimity can create more emotional balance and cognitive clarity in support of clear decision making.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 6 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Oren Jay Sofer, SEP
Oren Jay Sofer, SEP
View Oren's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 12, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 12, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code DA1D21.
Continuing Education (CE) credit available: This program offers 4 CE credits for $40 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
By changing our habits of movement, we awaken the body; by changing our habits of thinking, we awaken the mind. We can then join in the dance of existence with more freedom and ease. This daylong combines mindfulness meditation with sessions of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to re-educating the neuromuscular system. Meditation will alternate with guided Feldenkrais movement lessons, allowing the techniques to support each other and enhance mind-body connection and well-being. There will be time for discussion.
The workshop is appropriate for beginning and experienced students of either mindfulness meditation or The Feldenkrais Method®
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Tentative Schedule: (subject to change)
10:00-10:10 am Introduction
10:10-10:40 am Feldenkrais movement lesson
10:40-11:00 am Discussion and meditation
11:00-11:30 am Feldenkrais movement lesson
11:30-11:40 am Break
11:40 am-12:00 pm Discussion and meditation
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:15 pm Meditation
1:15-1:45 pm Feldenkrais movement lesson
1:45-1:55 pm Break
1:55-2:20 pm Discussion and meditation
2:20-2:45 pm Feldenkrais movement lesson
2:45-3:00 pm Discussion and closing meditation
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 4 CE credits for $40 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Demonstrate to clients ways to promote mindfulness of the body and mind;
- Describe how increased coordination, flexibility, ease of posture and breathe can reeducate the nervous system and develop greater self-awareness;
- Utilize techniques to cultivate self-care and increase comfort, in preparation for or when working with clients;
- Utilize and demonstrate to clients two practices that can be used to improve comfort when sitting and standing.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 4 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Dan Clurman, MA
Dan Clurman, MA
View Dan's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, November 13-14, 2021 Times: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, November 13-14, 2021
Times: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PB1M21.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 10 CE credits for $100 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Description:
At the end of life, no one wishes they had bought nicer things or read more social media posts. In our fast paced, goal-driven lives, we strive for meaningful connection with ourselves and others.
The simple practice of gratitude can awaken us to the outrageous beauty of life force already pulsing all around us. Gratitude is an antidote to our mind’s fear, opening the door to humility, reverence, and even devotion. It can permeate our deepest fears from eco-anxiety to sickness and loss. With gratitude and awe, we meet the world and feel the wonder and connection to the earth and all beings with the energy to transform and accept what is needed.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Tentative Daily Schedule: (subject to change)
10:00-10:30 a.m. Opening meditation
10:30-11:00 a.m. Talk
11:00-11:45 a.m. Activity
11:45-12:30 a.m. Walking meditation
12:30-1:30 a.m. Lunch
1:30-2:00 a.m. Movement
2:00-2:30 a.m. Talk
2:30-3:15 a.m. Breakout groups
3:15-3:45 a.m. Large group discussion
3:45-4:00 a.m. Closing and dedication of merit
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 10 CE credits for $100 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Describe 3 benefits of the gratitude practice;
- Describe 2 ways in which gratitude can alleviate eco-anxiety;
- Describe how gratitude can bring meaningful connection with one selves and others;
- Describe a gratitude practice that may be used to reduce fear and anxiety;
- Describe how gratitude affects the human brain and body;
- Describe how to cultivate gratitude for current health conditions as well as acceptance of limitations;
- Describe a gratitude practice to cultivate positive emotions and reduce emotional exhaustion.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 10 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
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Eve Ekman, PhD
Eve Ekman, PhD
View Adam's upcoming programs or profile
-
Pawan Bareja, PhD, SEP
Pawan Bareja, PhD, SEP
View Pawan's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 19, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Date & Time: Friday, November 19, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code MC3D21.
Continuing Education (CE) credit available: This program offers 5.5 CE credits for $55 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
Have you noticed the negative effects of self-judgment. If you wish to be more free from the torment of the inner critic, this daylong is good medicine. During our day together, you will learn:
- How to recognize judging thoughts;
- Learn to deal effectively with inner critic attacks;
- How to distinguish between negative judgment and wise discernment and discrimination;
- The importance of self-acceptance, self-compassion and metta as an antidote to the critic;
- The need and role of humor in helping us with the critic;
- Cultivating forgiveness in response to judgment.
The day will be a combination of talks, and interactive exercises, mindfulness and loving kindness techniques and practices and is open to new and experienced students. This will be a practical and experiential course taught with lightness, compassion and humor and the need to not take ourselves too seriously.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 5.5 CE credits for $55 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Describe the practice of mindful awareness, and how this relates to understanding the inner-critic;
- Contrast judgment and discernment, and their effects on well-being;
- Incorporate self-acceptance and self-compassion when working with clients as an antidote to self-judgment;
- Describe a lovingkindness practice to patents or clients as a support for working with judgment.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 5.5 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
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Mark Coleman, MA
Mark Coleman, MA
View Mark's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Date & Time: Sunday, November 21, 2021; 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Date & Time: Sunday, November 21, 2021; 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PM3D21.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, and nurses, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, or BRN.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgment, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events.
This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them accountable without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down.
Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret and a mind that is calm and clear.
The day will consist of sitting and walking meditation, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, a forgiveness ceremony, and include periods of guided silent practice.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, and nurses, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, or BRN.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Describe to clients how the three components of loving-kindness, mindful acknowledgment, and compassion are integral parts of the practice of forgiveness;
- Incorporate practices with clients to enable them to release remorse, grief, guilt, and shame and move towards forgiveness;
- Apply mindfulness techniques with clients when they are caught in repeated trauma patterns of anger and/or self-blame;
- Utilize a self-forgiveness practice with clients to work with challenging emotions of remorse or guilt and move towards acceptance, clarity, and resolution.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 6 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt
View Phillip's profile.
December
Event Details
Dates: Jan - May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days). Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sliding
Event Details
- Dates: Jan – May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days).
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $450 – $2,000. Code BP1T22.
Continuing Education Credits: 18 CE credits available for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
PREREQUISITE
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants are recommended to have attended at least one (1) multi-day residential retreat or multi-day online retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.
DESCRIPTION
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. So much goodness unfolds from this sincerity. Through our practice, we come to understand ourselves, affirm ourselves, and ultimately, transform ourselves. Our own transformation is then leveraged for the welfare of the people we serve.
The classic description of empathy—to stand in someone else’s shoes—presumes that we already know what it is like to stand in our own shoes. With striking clarity, mindfulness reveals what it’s like to stand in our own experience. The intimacy of this encounter with ourselves provides a basis for deep compassion and accurate empathy. This program is not primarily about learning techniques to add to one’s therapeutic repertoire: it is a recognition that, in an important sense, you are the intervention and cultivation of your own being enhances your effectiveness. Techniques flow from your direct understanding and their power depends on the sincerity of your efforts.
This four-month training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds, foster goodness and transform habits that compound suffering. We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits. The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment. We’ll consider possible contraindications of mindfulness and how to tailor the intervention to individuals. It is an attempt to foster a dialogue between the sacred power of Buddhist practice and the scientific study of health, psychological distress and behavior change. Please join us.
PRE-COURSE WORK
Once accepted into the program, all participants will be given access to Foundational Buddhist Teachings, an online course consisting of five daylong retreats. Students are encouraged to review this course material prior to the class to ensure all participants can join our course with a level of shared understanding regarding foundational Buddhist concepts and terms.
PROGRAM DATES
Program training period is January – May 2021. Specific training dates below.
All meeting times are: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Jan 8 & 9 (2 days)
- Feb 12
- March 12
- April 9
- April 30 & May 1 (2 days)
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES
Your participation in this training is important. The cohesion of the group is an important aspect of this training, so participation serves both your own development as well as the group. We ask that you commit to the dates and to participate wholeheartedly.
In addition to course meetings, participants will have opportunities to participate in smaller consult groups with the teacher throughout the program term.
For participants wishing to receive CE credits: In order to receive Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend all sessions live, on time, and in full. Your attendance is tracked carefully to grant your CE credits. Board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance, therefore, incomplete attendance nullifies CE credit eligibility. No exceptions. More information on Continuing Education (CE) credits below.
For participants not wishing to receive CE credits: Attendance at both two-day retreats (January and May) is mandatory. We expect that all participants will also attend each monthly daylong, however, we understand that sometimes there are unavoidable emergencies.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
We generally only offer financial assistance one time a year per person. Choosing the fee you can reasonably afford helps make courses available to all, regardless of ability to pay. No one turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. If you are in need of financial assistance, please email registration@spiritrock.org.
CANCELLATION FEES:
$50 cancel fee* = if cancel >1 week prior to program start
$100 cancel fee* = if cancel between 1 week and 2 days prior to program start
No refunds = if cancel <2 days prior to program start
(*fees reduced for scholarship folks)
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page. to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Describe at least two of the overlaps and differences between mindfulness-based treatment and Buddhist psychology;
- Describe the three clusters of meditative practice: attentional, constructive, deconstructive;
- List five types of emotion regulation;
- Describe the relevance of equanimity for emotional regulation;
- Describe how evolutionary biology informs contemporary understandings of emotion;
- Describe the parallels between Buddhist practice and exposure therapy;
- Explain the role of inflexible self-definition in the generation of difficult emotion;
- Explain the role of the brain’s default mode network and self-referential thought in emotional regulation;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to shame;
- Explain the differences between self-esteem and self-compassion;
- Describe how Buddhist practice is relevant for enhancing the therapeutic alliance;
- Describe three ways in which clinician mindfulness helps manage countertransference;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
CEC Schedule: (All times in US Pacific Time)
Full attendance is required daily 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The CEC instructional sessions are highlighted below.
January 8 – No CECs – full attendance required
January 9
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – Discourse
February 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
March 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 30
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
May 1 – No CECs – full attendance required
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 18 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
View Matthew's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Dates: Saturday to Sunday, December 4-5, 2021 Times: Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time; Sunday: 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $70-$300. Our sliding scale
Event Details
Dates: Saturday to Sunday, December 4-5, 2021
Times: Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time; Sunday: 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $70-$300. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code KJ1M21.
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. This program offers 7.5 CE credits for $75 for licensed psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Description:
In this retreat, you’ll learn powerful ways to meet times of transition and challenge with wisdom, resilience, and balance.
In this period of unprecedented uncertainty and stress, many of us feel like the ground is being pulled out from under us. Perhaps we are at a crossroads, needing to make a huge decision, and we don’t know which way to go. We may be experiencing personal loss or hardship, or we may be touching the immensity of our collective disruption and polarization.
Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer teachings and practices based on her new book, We Were Made for These Times, drawing from her own experience with seasons of change and challenge, to support you in difficult times.
Time-honored teachings will help you develop ease, trust in life, presence, and self-compassion, so you can meet the individual and collective pain of these times with an open heart and clear mind.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Tentative Daily Schedule:
Saturday Schedule (note, Eastern Time in parenthesis)
9:00 a.m. (12:00 p.m ET) Welcome
9:10 a.m. (12:10 p.m. ET) Introductions and Overview of the 2 days
9:20 a.m. (12:20 p.m. ET) Somatic practice
9:35 a.m. (12:35 p.m. ET) Meditation
10:00 a.m. (1:00 p.m. ET) Break
10:10 a.m. (1:10 p.m. ET)) Body practice
10:20 a.m. (1:20 p.m. ET) Dharma Talk
10:50 a.m. (1:50 p.m. ET) Journaling
11:00 a.m. (2:00 p.m. ET) Q&A
11:20 a.m. (2:20 p.m. ET) Group sharing
11:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. ET) Break
12:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET) Welcome, movement
12:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. ET) Meditation
1:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m. ET) Dharma Talk
1:50 p.m. (4:50 p.m. ET) Break
2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. ET) Journaling
2:10 p.m. (5:10 p.m. ET) Small groups
2:40 p.m. (5:40 p.m. ET) Group sharing
2:50 p.m. (5:50 p.m. ET) Closing Practice
3:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. ET) End
Sunday Schedule: (note, Eastern Time in parenthesis)
12:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET) Welcome, movement
12:40 p.m. (3:40 p.m. ET) Meditation
1:10 p.m. (4:10 p.m. ET) Talk
1:50 p.m. (4:50 p.m. ET) Break
2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. ET) Journaling
2:10 p.m. (5:10 p.m. ET) Small groups
2:40 p.m. (5:40 p.m. ET) Group sharing
2:50 p.m. (5:50 p.m. ET) Closing Practice
3:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. ET) End
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. This program offers 7.5 CE credits for $75 for licensed psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Implement mindfulness-based self-care strategies to promote professional and personal well-being, including burnout and secondary-traumatization prevention strategies;
- Define mindfulness, and what practices develop mindfulness;
- Describe how mindfulness practices can reduce anxiety and support resilience;
- Describe the relationship between a health care professional’s mindfulness practice, and improved clinical outcome;
- Incorporate mindfulness of breath practices to develop present moment awareness, and to calm the mind in preparation for, and when working
with clients.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 7.5 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo
View Kaira Jewel's upcoming programs or profile.
Event Details
Dates: Saturday to Sunday, December 18-19, 2021 Times: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers.
Event Details
Dates: Saturday to Sunday, December 18-19, 2021
Times: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code DR3M21.
Continuing Education (CE) credit available: This program offers 10 CE credits for $100 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
At this time of the Winter Solstice, of maximum darkness, we will take stock of our lives and strengthen our orientation toward wisdom and compassion in all parts of our lives. We will remind ourselves of impermanence and the fragility of everything, of our tendencies at times to reactivity rather than responsiveness, and of our interdependence. Seeing clearly how things are and our vulnerability to confusion, how could we be other than kind? Developing our kindness, through seeing when we are not kind, is the great work of the purification of the heart. As we go back to the fundamentals of the wise heart, our insight and commitments can deepen, and we may also arrive at new understandings and directions that can guide us in this next cycle of our lives.
In this two-day retreat, we will support this process with sitting and walking meditation, short talks, and discussion.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 10 CE credits for $100 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, NBHWC, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Utilize reflection practices to cultivate clarity about purpose and intention;
- Utilize practices to cultivate compassion for self and others;
- Describe to patients or clients how meditation practices cultivating insight into impermanence can change our perceived value of life and help cultivate joy and appreciation;
- Describe how wisdom teachings and mindfulness practices can help cultivate intentional responsiveness and awareness of the negative impact of habitual reactivity;
- Describe to patients or clients the emotional benefit of cultivating and valuing interdependent relationships and a general sense of interdependence with all things;
- Describe how mindfulness practices can bring clarity of thought, improve attentional abilities, and reduce one’s vulnerability to confusion;
- Utilize lovingkindness meditations as an antidote to distress and aversion;
- Describe wisdom teachings and lovingkindness and mindfulness practices to patients or clients that may be used to cultivate clarity and purpose and reduce distress.
Continuing Education content level: Introductory
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 10 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
View Donald's profile.
-
Sylvia Boorstein, PhD
Sylvia Boorstein, PhD
View Sylvia's upcoming programs or profile.
January
Event Details
Dates: Jan - May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days). Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sliding
Event Details
- Dates: Jan – May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days).
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $450 – $2,000. Code BP1T22.
Continuing Education Credits: 18 CE credits available for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
PREREQUISITE
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants are recommended to have attended at least one (1) multi-day residential retreat or multi-day online retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.
DESCRIPTION
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. So much goodness unfolds from this sincerity. Through our practice, we come to understand ourselves, affirm ourselves, and ultimately, transform ourselves. Our own transformation is then leveraged for the welfare of the people we serve.
The classic description of empathy—to stand in someone else’s shoes—presumes that we already know what it is like to stand in our own shoes. With striking clarity, mindfulness reveals what it’s like to stand in our own experience. The intimacy of this encounter with ourselves provides a basis for deep compassion and accurate empathy. This program is not primarily about learning techniques to add to one’s therapeutic repertoire: it is a recognition that, in an important sense, you are the intervention and cultivation of your own being enhances your effectiveness. Techniques flow from your direct understanding and their power depends on the sincerity of your efforts.
This four-month training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds, foster goodness and transform habits that compound suffering. We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits. The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment. We’ll consider possible contraindications of mindfulness and how to tailor the intervention to individuals. It is an attempt to foster a dialogue between the sacred power of Buddhist practice and the scientific study of health, psychological distress and behavior change. Please join us.
PRE-COURSE WORK
Once accepted into the program, all participants will be given access to Foundational Buddhist Teachings, an online course consisting of five daylong retreats. Students are encouraged to review this course material prior to the class to ensure all participants can join our course with a level of shared understanding regarding foundational Buddhist concepts and terms.
PROGRAM DATES
Program training period is January – May 2021. Specific training dates below.
All meeting times are: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Jan 8 & 9 (2 days)
- Feb 12
- March 12
- April 9
- April 30 & May 1 (2 days)
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES
Your participation in this training is important. The cohesion of the group is an important aspect of this training, so participation serves both your own development as well as the group. We ask that you commit to the dates and to participate wholeheartedly.
In addition to course meetings, participants will have opportunities to participate in smaller consult groups with the teacher throughout the program term.
For participants wishing to receive CE credits: In order to receive Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend all sessions live, on time, and in full. Your attendance is tracked carefully to grant your CE credits. Board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance, therefore, incomplete attendance nullifies CE credit eligibility. No exceptions. More information on Continuing Education (CE) credits below.
For participants not wishing to receive CE credits: Attendance at both two-day retreats (January and May) is mandatory. We expect that all participants will also attend each monthly daylong, however, we understand that sometimes there are unavoidable emergencies.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
We generally only offer financial assistance one time a year per person. Choosing the fee you can reasonably afford helps make courses available to all, regardless of ability to pay. No one turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. If you are in need of financial assistance, please email registration@spiritrock.org.
CANCELLATION FEES:
$50 cancel fee* = if cancel >1 week prior to program start
$100 cancel fee* = if cancel between 1 week and 2 days prior to program start
No refunds = if cancel <2 days prior to program start
(*fees reduced for scholarship folks)
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page. to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Describe at least two of the overlaps and differences between mindfulness-based treatment and Buddhist psychology;
- Describe the three clusters of meditative practice: attentional, constructive, deconstructive;
- List five types of emotion regulation;
- Describe the relevance of equanimity for emotional regulation;
- Describe how evolutionary biology informs contemporary understandings of emotion;
- Describe the parallels between Buddhist practice and exposure therapy;
- Explain the role of inflexible self-definition in the generation of difficult emotion;
- Explain the role of the brain’s default mode network and self-referential thought in emotional regulation;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to shame;
- Explain the differences between self-esteem and self-compassion;
- Describe how Buddhist practice is relevant for enhancing the therapeutic alliance;
- Describe three ways in which clinician mindfulness helps manage countertransference;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
CEC Schedule: (All times in US Pacific Time)
Full attendance is required daily 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The CEC instructional sessions are highlighted below.
January 8 – No CECs – full attendance required
January 9
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – Discourse
February 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
March 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 30
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
May 1 – No CECs – full attendance required
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 18 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
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Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
View Matthew's upcoming programs or profile.
February
Event Details
Dates: Jan - May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days). Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sliding
Event Details
- Dates: Jan – May 2022; Jan 8 & 9 (2 days), Feb 12, March 12, April 9, April 30 & May 1 (2 days).
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $450 – $2,000. Code BP1T22.
Continuing Education Credits: 18 CE credits available for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*
PREREQUISITE
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants are recommended to have attended at least one (1) multi-day residential retreat or multi-day online retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.
DESCRIPTION
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. So much goodness unfolds from this sincerity. Through our practice, we come to understand ourselves, affirm ourselves, and ultimately, transform ourselves. Our own transformation is then leveraged for the welfare of the people we serve.
The classic description of empathy—to stand in someone else’s shoes—presumes that we already know what it is like to stand in our own shoes. With striking clarity, mindfulness reveals what it’s like to stand in our own experience. The intimacy of this encounter with ourselves provides a basis for deep compassion and accurate empathy. This program is not primarily about learning techniques to add to one’s therapeutic repertoire: it is a recognition that, in an important sense, you are the intervention and cultivation of your own being enhances your effectiveness. Techniques flow from your direct understanding and their power depends on the sincerity of your efforts.
This four-month training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds, foster goodness and transform habits that compound suffering. We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits. The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment. We’ll consider possible contraindications of mindfulness and how to tailor the intervention to individuals. It is an attempt to foster a dialogue between the sacred power of Buddhist practice and the scientific study of health, psychological distress and behavior change. Please join us.
PRE-COURSE WORK
Once accepted into the program, all participants will be given access to Foundational Buddhist Teachings, an online course consisting of five daylong retreats. Students are encouraged to review this course material prior to the class to ensure all participants can join our course with a level of shared understanding regarding foundational Buddhist concepts and terms.
PROGRAM DATES
Program training period is January – May 2021. Specific training dates below.
All meeting times are: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
- Jan 8 & 9 (2 days)
- Feb 12
- March 12
- April 9
- April 30 & May 1 (2 days)
PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES
Your participation in this training is important. The cohesion of the group is an important aspect of this training, so participation serves both your own development as well as the group. We ask that you commit to the dates and to participate wholeheartedly.
In addition to course meetings, participants will have opportunities to participate in smaller consult groups with the teacher throughout the program term.
For participants wishing to receive CE credits: In order to receive Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend all sessions live, on time, and in full. Your attendance is tracked carefully to grant your CE credits. Board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance, therefore, incomplete attendance nullifies CE credit eligibility. No exceptions. More information on Continuing Education (CE) credits below.
For participants not wishing to receive CE credits: Attendance at both two-day retreats (January and May) is mandatory. We expect that all participants will also attend each monthly daylong, however, we understand that sometimes there are unavoidable emergencies.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
We generally only offer financial assistance one time a year per person. Choosing the fee you can reasonably afford helps make courses available to all, regardless of ability to pay. No one turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. If you are in need of financial assistance, please email registration@spiritrock.org.
CANCELLATION FEES:
$50 cancel fee* = if cancel >1 week prior to program start
$100 cancel fee* = if cancel between 1 week and 2 days prior to program start
No refunds = if cancel <2 days prior to program start
(*fees reduced for scholarship folks)
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists, health & wellness coaches, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page. to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
- Describe at least two of the overlaps and differences between mindfulness-based treatment and Buddhist psychology;
- Describe the three clusters of meditative practice: attentional, constructive, deconstructive;
- List five types of emotion regulation;
- Describe the relevance of equanimity for emotional regulation;
- Describe how evolutionary biology informs contemporary understandings of emotion;
- Describe the parallels between Buddhist practice and exposure therapy;
- Explain the role of inflexible self-definition in the generation of difficult emotion;
- Explain the role of the brain’s default mode network and self-referential thought in emotional regulation;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to shame;
- Explain the differences between self-esteem and self-compassion;
- Describe how Buddhist practice is relevant for enhancing the therapeutic alliance;
- Describe three ways in which clinician mindfulness helps manage countertransference;
- Describe Buddhist approaches to anxiety.
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
CEC Schedule: (All times in US Pacific Time)
Full attendance is required daily 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The CEC instructional sessions are highlighted below.
January 8 – No CECs – full attendance required
January 9
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. – Discourse
February 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
March 12
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 9
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
April 30
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Discourse
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Discourse
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Guided Meditation
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Discourse
May 1 – No CECs – full attendance required
*Please note:
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above. Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 18 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
Teacher(s)
-
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
View Matthew's upcoming programs or profile.