Instructor: Kasim Al-Mashat

This 10-Week Online MBSR Foundations Training is organized by the Centre For Mindfulness Canada, in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  The successful completion of this MBSR Foundations Training is fully recognized and acknowledged by the Mindfulness Center, School of Public Health, at Brown University.  MBSR Foundations fulfills one part within the "MBSR Teacher Training Level 1".  For full details please visit our website.   

The format for the 10-Week Online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Foundations Training program combines concurrent required participating in an eight-week MBSR program (including an information session) as well as engaging in the 10-Week Foundations Seminar. ​

The required concurrent participation in the eight-week MBSR class will allow the participant-trainees to engage in formal MBSR mindfulness meditation practices, as well as investigation of themes of perception, automatic, habitual stress reactivity, mindfulness-mediated stress response and interpersonal communication.

If you have not taken the eight-week MBSR program as a participant prior to your application to this Training, you will not be able to apply to this MBSR Foundations program. Taking the MBSR program for the first time with Foundations does not fulfill the pre-requisite requirement.

Schedule:

MBSR Foundations involves meeting twice each week (Wednesday and Thursdays) over a 10-week period, in addition to the MBSR All-Day. If your application for 10-Week Online MBSR Foundations Training is accepted, you will be automatically registered in both the eight-week MBSR program and MBSR Foundations Seminar.  Here is the breakdown of the sessions: 

• Eight-Week MBSR program on Wednesdays starting at April 13th 5:30 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST). The weekly MBSR program is 2.5 hours long with exception to first and last sessions, which are 3 hours long.

• Foundations Seminar will be on Thursdays, starting at April 7th 4:30 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST). The weekly Seminar is 3.5 hours long.

Pre-requisites:

• Successful completion of a live (online or in-person) 8-week MBSR program (including eight, 2.5 hour classes, an all-day class, and daily home practice)

• Consistent daily meditation practice (two years)

• Consistent body awareness movement, preferably yoga (two years)

• Participation in a 5-7 day silent (live online or in-person), teacher-led mindfulness retreat within the last three years.

• Graduate degree or equivalent background experience in healthcare, public health, medicine, or education (other backgrounds will be considered), or community contributions. This will be addressed case by case.

Tuition: Early Bird: $2,500 CAD (enroll by March 12) / Regular fee: $2,800 CAD (after March 12)

More information and application: HERE.