Rohnert Park, CA
DoubleTree by Hilton Sonoma-Wine Country
Initial Training Program: October 31-November 3, 2018Advanced Training Program: Mind-Body Skills for Health Professionals January 9-12, 2019
About the Training
The traumatic events of the North Bay wildfires have profoundly affected our individual emotional and physical health, our social functioning, our overall well-being, and the health and security of our community. Unresolved, this distress can damage our health and limit our potential for rebuilding a strong community.
Join diverse Sonoma County community members in this dynamic train-the-trainer program where you will practice evidence-based self-care tools for effectively addressing personal and team stress after the fires, network with peers, and learn an evidence-based model to rebuild a resilient, self-healing, and inclusive Sonoma County.
What’s Involved for Participants
This is a two-part professional training program and full attendance is required for both programs. Thanks to generous support from funders, the training is free of charge. Your investment is a commitment to 100% attendance at the 4-day Initial Training Program (October 31-November 3, 2018), as well as the 4-day Advanced Training Program (January 9-12, 2019). The training days will last from about 8 AM – 5:30 PM.
By applying, you also commit to running at least one workshop and one, 8-week, mind-body skills group during the year under the supervision of Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) faculty. See more details on the full time commitment here.
Course Directors
James S. Gordon, MD
Jerrol Kimmel, RN, MA
Amy Shinal, MSW, LCSW
Confirmed Course Faculty
Matt Erb, PT
Stephanie Misaki Whiting, MS
Naomi L. Baum, PhD
Toni Bankston, LCSW, BACS
Geoff Sittler, OTR/L, BCN
Claire Wheeler, MD, PhD
Tanmeet Sethi, MD
Kathleen Farah, MD
Angela Siela
Other course faculty may be added.
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.
Background on The Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative
The Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative is working in partnership across our community and with The Center for Mind Body Medicine, whose curriculum is the foundation for the program. The vision for the Collaborative, which has been endorsed and adopted as a part of Sonoma County Health Action, is to develop our local capacity for healing, empower lay people with comprehensive tools, build the social connections that are the predictor of community resilience, and prevent the progression of stress and trauma into more serious social, mental, physical, and social impacts.
The Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative has been endorsed and adapted as a part of Sonoma County Health Action.
The Sonoma Community Resilience Collaborative is generously supported by:
Background on The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Over the last 27 years, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine has developed and implemented what may well be the world’s largest, most effective program for healing population-wide psychological trauma and stress. This program is led by CMBM’s Founder and Executive Director, James S. Gordon, MD, a Georgetown Medical School Professor and former Chairman of The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Faculty will include distinguished US and international clinicians who have, for many years, successfully used the CMBM model to address population-wide trauma and stress.
October 31-November 3, 2018 Initial Training Program
January 9-12, 2019 Advanced Training Program
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.
Jerrol Kimmel, RN, MA
Integrative Medicine Practitioner; Oncology Nurse Navigator for Women’s Health; works with clients around the country in her program Filling Up On
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.
Matt Erb, PT
Matt Erb, integrative physical therapist, owner of Embody Your Mind, and faculty member for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, has a passion for helping the world understand the science of mind-body medicine, stress, and integrative wellness.
Stephanie Misaki Whiting, MS
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Hawaii; Mind-Body Skills Group facilitator; Wellness and Stress Management consultant; Board Member, Hawaii Counselors Association
Naomi L. Baum, PhD
Naomi L. Baum, PhD, psychologist working as an international consultant; completed 12 year tenure at the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma; CMBM country director for Israel
Toni Bankston, LCSW, BACS
Toni Bankston, LCSW, BACS currently serves as the Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center and the Vice-President of the Louisiana Alliance for Child Advocacy Centers She also serves on the Louisiana Legislative Task Force for Sexual Assault Prevention.
Geoff Sittler, OTR/L, BCN
Geoff Sittler OTR/L, BCN is an Occupational Therapist specializing in utilizing Mind-Body modalities with both individuals and groups.
Claire Wheeler, MD, PhD
Physician, Psychologist in Portland, Oregon; Founder of MindBody Medicine of Portland; Instructor, Portland State University School of Community Health; author, 10 Simple Solutions to Stress
Tanmeet Sethi, MD
Board Certified Family Physician Specializing in Integrative Medicine; Faculty Physician and Director of Integrative Medicine Fellowship, Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency.
Kathleen Farah, MD
Mind-Body Skills Group facilitator, Integrative Medicine Clinic, Children’s Hospitals and Clinic in Minneapolis; Board certified in family practice and holistic medicine
Angela Siela
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