Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: 8-Week Program

Name: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: 8-Week Program
Start: 2024-04-30T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-25T12:30:00-07:00
Location: Berkeley

April 30, 2024 @ 10:00 am America/Los_Angeles

Online Zoom Program • Presented by Berkeley Shambhala

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain.

MBSR is a practical approach which trains attention, allowing people to cultivate awareness and therefore enabling them to have more choice to take wise action in their lives.

Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga, and exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling and action.

A certificate of completion will be awarded at the end of the program. In order to receive the certificate, every class (including full-day retreat) must be attended. This program satisfies the first requirement towards obtaining the MBSR teaching certificate.

Program includes:

Orientation (required) Tuesday, April 30 • 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)
8 Tuesdays, May 7 – June 25 • 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)
Full-Day Online Retreat, Saturday, June 15 • 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)

If you have any questions, please contact instructor Cynthia Morin at: mbsrcynmor [at] gmail [dot] com

About the Instructor

Cynthia Morin RN, MPH, MSN completed the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness’ Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher Development Intensive September 2016.

As a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (NP), she incorporated the practice of mindfulness in her work with seriously ill and dying patients, and in her staff and patient education programs at the VA in Martinez, CA. Ms. Morin has extensive experience in health care including certifications as an Adult NP, Psychiatric Mental Health NP and Palliative Care NP.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: An Eight-Week Online Program

With Cynthia Morin RN, MPH, MSN

Orientation (required) Tuesday, April 30 • 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)
8 Tuesdays, May 7 – June 25 • 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)
Full-Day Online Retreat, Saturday, June 15 • 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (Pacific Daily Time)
This program will be taught on Zoom. Open to all. A certificate of completion will be awarded at the end of the program. In order to receive the certificate, every class (including full-day retreat) must be attended. This program satisfies the first requirement towards obtaining the MBSR teaching certificate.