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Big Sur, California
Esalen Institute
October 20 - 25, 2019
About the Training
This evidence-based, transformational training gives you the science and tools you need to make mind-body medicine an integral, foundational part of your practice and your life. It is the first step in becoming certified by one of the world’s premier programs in comprehensive self-care and group support.
Participants will attend lectures on the latest research in mind-body medicine and experience CMBM’s pioneering Mind-Body Skills Groups. In these groups, they will practice a variety of techniques to reduce stress and enhance self-awareness, to mobilize their imagination and intuition, and to develop their capacity for self-care. They will, as well, share what they have learned with and learn from one another.
For more than 25 years, CMBM has taught this program to more than 5,000 professionals – clinicians, educators, community leaders, and peer counselors. Over that time, CMBM has developed what is likely the world’s largest, most effective program for healing population-wide stress and trauma. Its work in the Balkans, Israel, Gaza, Haiti, and with Syrian refugees, US veterans, and New York City Fire fighters post 9/11, and in troubled American communities has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and USA Today, and on CBS 60 Minutes.
See what our Professional Training Program in Mind-Body Medicine is about
Our Professional Training Program in Mind-Body Medicine is the first step in your journey towards Certification in Mind-Body Medicine. Join the thousands of health professionals who are serving millions of people across the globe. It would be our privilege and joy to have you join our community of healers.
Course Directors
James S. Gordon, MD
Amy Shinal, MSW, LCSW
Confirmed Course Faculty
Course faculty to be announced soon.
What You Will Learn
- Make evidence-based mind-body techniques, including meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, written dialogues, and genograms an integral part of your life and your practice.
- Experience self-expression in words, drawings, and movement, and learn to use these creative approaches with others.
- Learn the latest scientific evidence for these techniques and how they bring positive change to our physiology and psychology.
- Experience CMBM’s pioneering Mind-Body Skills Group.model and learn to lead these groups.
- Bring new vision, more effective practice, and greater joy to your life and work.
- Become part of a worldwide community of healers.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the theory and practice underlying mind-body medicine.
- Define the purpose of groups for teaching and experiencing mind-body medicine.
- Practice and recognize the role of movement, exercise, and breathing as mind-body modalities.
- Demonstrate the use of drawings as mind-body modality.
- Practice and recognize the role of biofeedback and autogenic training as mind-body modalities.
- Practice and recognize the role of guided imagery as a mind-body modality.
- Practice and recognize the role of meditation as a mind-body modality.
- Realize the role of emotions in mind-body medicine.
- Realize the importance of self-awareness in mind-body medicine.
- Recognize the importance of genograms as a mind-body modality.
- Demonstrate the drawing of a genogram.
- Describe the use of mind-body skills in dealing with trauma.
- Recognize the importance of spirituality in healing.
- Realize the importance of mindful and healthy eating as part of self-awareness.
- Demonstrate a method for ending the final group of a session.
- Assess how to begin to use mind-body skills in clinical practices and/or teaching.
Who Should Attend?
- Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants
- Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors
- Emergency Medical Personnel
- Military & Veteran Providers
- Coaches
- Educators
- Massage Therapists & Yoga Therapists
- Occupational Therapists & Recreational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Dietitians & Nutritionists
- Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals
- Clergy & Religious Leaders
- Administrators of Cancer Care Organizations and Institutes
- Other Allied Health Professionals
James S. Gordon, MD
James S. Gordon, MD, Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine; founding Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University; Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine; Georgetown University School of Medicine; former Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy; author, Manifesto for a New Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Care, and Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey out of Depression.
Amy Shinal, MSW, LCSW
Amy Shinal, MSW, LCSW, is an Integrative Psychotherapist in private practice, and Clinical Director at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC.