About
Our Online Mind-Body Skills Groups (MBSGs) are educational, supportive groups built upon developing self-care skills.
Mind-Body Skills Groups have been developed over the last 30 years according to a model created by our Founder and Executive Director, James S. Gordon, MD and CMBM Faculty and Staff. Highly experiential and integrative techniques–such as meditation, guided imagery, autogenic training, breath work, movement, self expression and other approaches–are taught in a supportive environment.
An online MBSG is grounded in self-reflection. Sharing and connecting with others creates a wonderful learning and growth environment that supports individual and collective well-being. MBSGs support being witness to your own as well as other’s emotions and experiences.
Groups emphasize a sense of community. They are small, with 8-10 people and meet on a set day and time for 8 sessions (usually weekly), with each group lasting 2-hours. This format provides an opportunity to begin to integrate the mind-body skills into your life, in a real and practical way, with the support of the group to help you work through any difficulties along the way.
This is not a webinar nor an open or drop-in group. This is not a therapy group! Instead this is a highly-supportive educational group with a facilitator who is also an equal participant in the group.
What will you learn?
The evidence-based skills that you will learn have been documented to help lower levels of stress, improve mood, enhance resiliency and optimism, and help prevent chronic health conditions.
You’ll learn:
Meditation
To promote relaxed, moment-to-moment awareness with several kinds of meditation: concentrative, mindful, and expressive.
Guided Imagery
To mobilize your imagination, improve physiological functioning, and solve previously insoluble problems with guided imagery.
Autogenic Training & Biofeedback
To develop control over autonomic system functioning, reduce stress, and bring your mind and body into harmony.
Self Expression
To find your voice and solutions to previously insoluble problems with journaling and drawing.
Are there other requirements to register?
Please bring a commitment to participate in all 8 online group sessions, and a desire to connect with, relate to, and understand others and their unique experience, equal to your own. You must also be 18 years or older to register.
Before you register…
Our Online Mind-Body Skills Groups are educational, supportive groups built upon developing self-care skills.
Below you will find a directory of groups being offered by experienced facilitators who are recognized as Certified in Mind-Body Medicine by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. These groups are independently organized and managed by the facilitator. If you have questions about a specific group, feel free to contact the facilitator.
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, has created this directory of Online Mind-Body Skills Groups facilitated by practitioners that have completed the Center’s Certification Program in Mind-Body Medicine. These Certified graduates are from various disciplines and have varying levels of education and experience. We recommend that you investigate any educational program carefully before choosing one, whether or not it is listed here. Each graduate is governed by their own state law, regulations, and licensing agencies, and CMBM has no knowledge or control over compliance.
Online Mind-Body Skills Groups are educational, supportive groups built upon developing self-care skills and are not formal mental health therapy or intended as a substitute for conventional medical treatment or to diagnose or treat specific conditions.
You affirm that you have read and understand this disclaimer and that you accept its conditions. You agree to hold CMBM harmless and release CMBM for any and all damages you may incur as a result of using this directory or any of the graduates listed herein, including, but not limited to the damages related to the education, experience, training, degree, licensing, background, and anything else related to the person that you choose. You agree to further release and hold harmless CMBM for any outcome or harm by any person listed in this directory.