- Weekly Group Classes: Join 1.5-hour sessions led by a CBRT-certified teacher via Zoom.
- Interactive Learning: Engage in in-depth material reviews, lively group discussions, and focused breakout rooms.
- Guided Practice: Each session includes two guided meditations to deepen your experience.
- Comprehensive Student Manual: A 130+ page guide covering the full scope of the curriculum.
- Video & Audio Library: Instant access to 17 pre-recorded lectures and 22 downloadable guided meditations for lifelong practice.
- Dedicated Student Portal: A private website featuring additional scientific research, supplementary articles, and course updates.
- One-to-One Coaching: Two optional, private coaching calls designed to tailor the practice to your specific goals and lifestyle.
- Extended Practice: Enjoy 3 months of complimentary access to our weekly live-streamed Zoom group meditations.
- Monthly Meet-ups: Stay connected with free monthly alumni gatherings for ongoing support.
- Advanced Path: Gain priority access to a wide range of future retreats, workshops, and advanced training options.
Curriculum at a Glance
This comprehensive 9-week course combines skills taught separately in other trainings — mindfulness meditation, compassion meditation, imagery and breathwork — giving you the tools needed to reduce stress and enjoy a more connected, resilient and purposeful life.
Mindfulness Meditation Modules
The training begins with four mindfulness-based personal healing modules that break the cycle of stress and lead to a more balanced and rejuvenated state of well-being.
Module I – Embracing Suffering with Body Mindfulness
Practice Body Mindfulness to reconnect with our inner lives and begin releasing the survival habits of stress, trauma and reactivity.
Module II – Stopping Reactive Habits with Mindful Sensitivity
Practice Mindful Sensitivity to deepen the capacity for conscious self-regulation and cultivate balanced awareness.
Module III – Breaking Free of Stress with Mindful Awareness
Practice Mindful Awareness to cut through the mesh of reactive habits and stress instincts that normally block the full openness and clarity of our mind.
Module IV – Mindful Insight: The Lifelong Path of Self-Healing
Practice Mindful Insight to cut the roots of reactivity and grow proactive new ways of being in the world.
Compassion Meditation Modules
The training continues with four compassion-based relational healing modules that build resilience, prevent burnout and increase our capacity to care for ourselves and others.
Module V – Disarming Social Stress and Bias with Equal Empathy
Practice Equal Empathy to unlearn implicit social survival biases while deepening and expanding our sense of connection to others.
Module VI – Healing Reactive Emotions and Beliefs with Self-Compassion
Practice Self-Compassion to develop a wise, caring mind that orients to our common humanity.
Module VII – Cultivating Prosocial Emotions with Wise Give and Take
Practice Wise Give and Take to explore our boundless human potential for care and strengthen our social muscles of love, joy and equanimity.
Module VIII – Embodying a Resilient Self and Life with Caring Imagery
Practice role model visualizations to stretch our sense of self into a fully empowered, resilient and compassionate self.
Benefits
- Develop a more present, balanced, open and discerning mind through mindfulness practices
- Nurture self-care and acceptance, unlearn social biases, and deepen positive emotional connection with others through compassion meditation
- Build physical resilience, positive energy and the capacity for flow through embodiment practices like imagery and breath-work.
- Shape a life of personal resilience, social engagement and greater purpose through cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment over time.