What You Will Learn

In large group lectures, you will learn the science of meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, and autogenic training, and of self-expression in words, drawings, and movement. In CMBM’s groundbreaking Mind-Body Skills Groups, led by senior CMBM faculty, you will use these tools and share your experience with other trainees. You’ll also learn how to deliver Mind-Body Skills Groups in your personal and professional communities and receive ongoing coachingfrom CMBM faculty.

This evidence-based program gives you the tools you need to understand and successfully address the issues and challenges from which all of us learn and to help others do the same. It has often been described by CMBM’s 6000 trainees as “life changing.”

Learning Objectives

• Prepare and demonstrate how to give a didactic presentation on one or more mind-body approaches.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a mind-body skills group.
• Demonstrate how to work with a co-facilitator in a group.
• Describe and demonstrate how to deal with different personalities in a group (i.e. people who are withdrawn or who talk excessively).
• Assess how to deal with one’s own psychological issues in the context of a mind-body group.
• Describe ways to regulate the timing of the pace when leading a group.
• Create the group as a safe container and list ground rules for the group.
• Demonstrate how to use breath and movement to create relaxation, improve physical and emotional functioning and enhance energy when leading a group.
• Apply the use of imagery and art in the form of drawings for self exploration, expression and understanding.
• Demonstrate the use of autogenic training to regulate the autonomic nervous system when leading a group.
• Demonstrate how imagination can be used to affect physical change and create feelings of safety when leading a group.
• Explain how meditation is a way to bring about changes in the body and mind.
• Explain the importance of mindful and healthy eating as part of self-awareness and its role in self care and health promotion.
• Discuss the role of spirituality and ritual in healing.
• Apply and adapt the mind-body medicine model to work with different age groups.
• Design and demonstrate a method for ending the final group of a session.
• Utilize mind-body skills to teach group members ways of dealing with trauma.
• Explain how to integrate mind-body medicine into one’s own practice or institution.
• Describe possible ways to establish mind-body programs for individual clients and community groups.
• Prepare marketing materials and discuss mind-body medicine in professional settings.
• Create a plan to offer mind-body skills to groups within the community.

Who Should Attend?

All Sonoma County community members, first responders, educators, clinicians, non-profit workers, faith leaders, and other community leaders are welcome to apply. Our vision is to reach all walks of life across our county. We have developed the following guidelines to identify a diverse group of applicants who will be best positioned to work with local communities, institutions, organizations, or underrepresented populations in Sonoma County.