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2-Day Intensive Training: Mindfulness Certification Course

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This 2-day Certification training is your chance to become a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP)!

And unlike other Mindfulness Certification programs that are too expensive, too time consuming, and require extensive travel, this live webcast training is completely within your reach!

Dr. Sears, a licensed psychologist and director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation, is celebrated as an acclaimed mindfulness author, engaging teacher, and knowledgeable scholar. His transformative trainings have empowered hundreds of clinicians, enhancing their clinical effectiveness by seamlessly integrating mindfulness into therapy.

Join him for this 2-day intensive training and get:

  • How-to instruction on using mindfulness-based exercises with clients working through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, anger, and addiction
  • Specific guidance on using mindfulness with individuals and groups
  • Feedback and tips on how you can strengthen your personal mindfulness practice

Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of using mindfulness in counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CMIP for details.

Sign up today, enhance your clinical practice, and fundamentally improve the lives of your clients as a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP)!


This limited time offer includes your certification fee - $99.99 value!

There’s no hidden charges, no additional costs. Just complete this training. When you finish, you’ll get simple instructions on how you can easily apply to become certified at no additional cost to you.

(Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CMIP for full details and certification requirements)

Here's What You'll Learn


Mindfulness and the Clinician: “Know What You Teach” and “Teach What You Know”

  • Empirical support for improved symptomology and well-being
  • The latest research on therapists who practice mindfulness
  • Your mindfulness practice and how you can embody mindfulness
  • Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness in session
  • Research limitations

Mindfulness Psychoeducation Approaches: Easy to Use Strategies to Enhance Motivation in Therapy

  • Mindfulness vocabulary
  • Visuals and metaphors to explain mindfulness
  • Motivate clients with neuroplasticity

Deepen the Therapeutic Relationship: Build Presence, Trust and Empathetic Connection with Clients

  • Overcoming barriers
  • Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
  • Strategies to create empathetic connection
  • Exercises to build clients trust in themselves

Teach Mindfulness to Clients: Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices

  • Tips for teaching clients about the senses and awareness
  • Strategies to shift from “Automatic Pilot”
  • Skill building interventions to increase responsiveness & reduce reactivity
  • Strategies to cultivate attunement
  • Approaches for deepened experience of mindfulness
  • Brief and other informal practices
  • How to adapt practices to special populations

Group Therapy vs. Individual Sessions

  • Effectiveness of group vs. individual mindfulness
  • How to set up and conduct a mindfulness group
    • Screening for individual goodness of fit
    • Encouraging client buy-in and commitment to practice
  • Mindfulness interventions specifically designed for groups

Anxiety and Stress: Mindfulness Interventions to Relax the Body and Mind

  • Breathing practices that break the rumination cycle
  • Guided visualizations to lower the stress response
  • Movement strategies
  • Multi-sensory regulation techniques
  • Mindfully reduce the intensity of panic attacks

Mindfulness for Trauma: Disempower Intrusive Thoughts

  • Muscle tension releasing – exercises to counter fight or flight
  • Guided meditations to disempower intrusive thoughts
  • Grounding exercises and sample scripts

Using Mindfulness in Depression Treatment

  • Recognize self-criticism and respond with self-love
  • Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
  • Meditations to boost well-being

Mindfulness for Addictions: Break the Habit Loop

  • Awareness vs. autopilot -- relapse prevention
  • Mindfulness for triggers
  • Emotional regulation for cravings

Mindful Anger: Breathing and Self-Soothing Techniques

  • Breathe through anger
  • Distraction and grounding techniques
  • Self-soothe with calming words and imagery

Mindfulness, Diversity, & Cultural Humility

  • Adapt mindfulness experiences with cultural sensitivity
  • Assess appropriateness of mindfulness interventions for individuals
  • Negotiate the treatment plan

Mindfully Conquer Compassion Fatigue

  • Right here/right now – stay in the moment to reduce anxieties
  • Effective and healthy ways to manage your emotions
  • Change limiting stories about caring for yourself
  • Release the negative – 3 steps to countering negativity bias

Everything You're Getting


  • Two Full Days of live video content
  • Up to 12.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Certification through Evergreen Certification

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Meet Your Experts


Richard Sears, PsyD, PhD, MBA, ABPP

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Richard Sears, PsyD, PhD, MBA, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio, board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), runs a private psychology and consultation practice, and is the director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness & Meditation. He has run hundreds of mindfulness groups and was lead clinician in the first brain scan study involving mindfulness with children and adolescents. He is also an adjunct professor in the University of Cincinnati psychology department, clinical research faculty at the UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, volunteer professor of psychiatry & behavioral neurosciences at the UC College of Medicine, and a former research/psychologist contractor with the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.

His most recent books include ACT with Anxiety (PESI); The ACT Flip Chart (PESI); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness Toolbox (PESI); Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life in the Moment (Wiley-Blackwell); Building Competence in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Routledge); and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for PTSD (Wiley-Blackwell).

Dr. Sears is a sixth-degree black belt in Ninjutsu, and once served as a personal protection agent for the Dalai Lama with his teacher, Stephen K. Hayes. He has studied Eastern Wisdom for over 40 years, receiving ordination in three traditions, and transmission as a Zen master.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Sears maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the University of Cincinnati for Integrative Health and Wellness, Alliance Integrative Medicine, and Wright State University School of Professional Psychology. He receives compensation as a consultant and royalties as a published author. Dr. Sears receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Sears is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, a diplomate of the American board of Professional Psychology, and a fellow with the Academy of the American Board of Clinical Psychology. He is a peer reviewer for Mindfulness and a book reviewer for John Wiley & Sons, Inc, and Routledge. He is the director of Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation.

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Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Webcast Schedule

Please note: Each day there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Media Type:
Live Webinar
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
LWC055240
Brochure Code:
PWZ96914
Duration:
Two Full Days

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