Maximizing Mindfulness©

Course Description:

Core Mindfulness skills are essential to all things DBT, but many therapists and skills trainers struggle to find meaningful and interesting ways to integrate mindfulness practice into their work with clients.  People can find mindfulness boring, or difficult to relate to real life, and clinicians can feel daunted by the requirement of teaching the same mindfulness skills repeatedly.  Drawing from our experiences across out-patient, in-patient, residential, day treatment, and forensics settings, we have collected and developed innovative approaches to maximizing mindfulness practice across treatment modes and settings.  In 2 highly interactive 2-hour sessions, we will share creative mindfulness tips and tricks as well as helping participants learn to use DBT principles to develop new mindfulness practices.

This course is designed for skills trainers, individual therapists, and milieu staff who:  1) want to increase their understanding of the links between mindfulness and Life Worth Living Goals; 2) want to improve their development and delivery of mindfulness skills across treatment modes; 3) want to expand their use of mindfulness to treat therapy-interfering behavior.

Topics for the Course Include:

Week 1:     

• Why do mindfulness

• Benefits of mindfulness

• Problems with mindlessness

• When do we do mindfulness in DBT

• Choosing mindfulness practices strategically

• Leading mindfulness practice

• Debriefing mindfulness practice

• Assigning mindfulness as homework

• Developing new mindfulness practices

Week 1 Homework: Create instructions for a new mindfulness practice and try it out (on team, in group, with a colleague or client)

 Week 2:

• Integrating mindfulness into programming (milieu settings, schools)

• Using mindfulness to treat group TIB

• Using mindfulness to treat in-session dysfunctional behavior

• Your own mindfulness practice

Course Objectives:

Following this online course, participants will be able to:

1. Develop new mindfulness practices based on DBT Mindfulness skills

2. Provide corrective feedback of in-session mindfulness practices

3. Create mindfulness practices that balance active participation and quiet observing

4. Link mindfulness practices to Life Worth Living Goals

5. Treat therapy interfering behaviors in skills group using DBT principles

6. Create milieu programming that integrates mindfulness practices

Registration & Tuition: 

• Individuals: $50 per person (USD)

• Online we accept credit cards and PayPal. If you need to pay by check, please complete our INVOICE REQUEST.

**IMPORTANT**

• After your payment is received, we will send you an email with instructions on how to access the course. Depending on the day and time of your order, this can take up to 24 hours. Orders received Friday evening through Monday morning will be processed on Monday.