Pesi – Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy: A 9-month advanced certificate training

Pesi – Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy: A 9-month advanced certificate training

The Nalanda Institute’s Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy program is the world’s most advanced training for clinicians looking to expand their practice by integrating a variety of mindfulness-based meditation practices with Buddhist psychology, contemporary psychotherapy, and current neuropsychology.

Now, for the first time ever, you can earn your Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute through online access to their comprehensive training.

This intensive 9-month certificate training program will help distinguish you as a leader in the field of Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy among your clients, employer and fellow clinicians.

Co-developed by Nalanda Institute core faculty, Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., Miles Neale, PsyD, and Emily Wolf, Ph.D., the training program includes the world’s leading experts and provides you direct access to the work and lessons of the most sought-after teachers, including:

• Sharon Salzberg, acclaimed author and prominent Buddhist meditation teacher
• Rick Hanson, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author and authority on self-directed neuroplasticity
• Richard Davidson, Ph.D., groundbreaking researcher and one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World”
• Chris Germer, Ph.D., author, international speaker and co-developer with Kristen Neff of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
• Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D., critically acclaimed author and creator of meditative psychotherapy
• Robert Thurman, Ph.D., recognized worldwide authority on religion, spirituality and Buddhist science
• …and more

This groundbreaking training will show you how to masterfully weave insights and practices from contemplative psychology into the daily fabric of your clinical practice — providing you a powerful approach that can help improve clinical outcomes in clients experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, pain, addiction and more.

Don’t wait to become one of tomorrow’s leaders… Join an elite group of your peers who are transforming their practice and their clients’ lives by earning their certificate in mindfulness-based contemplative psychotherapy.

By joining us to

Earn your Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy, you will:

• Learn to combine a safe, exploratory dialog with time-tested practical skills to illuminate your clients’ potential for healing and happiness
• Develop essential skills for helping clients apply Mindfulness to daily life
• Complete a Capstone Project to showcase your new skills and understanding of mindfulness-based psychotherapy

Program Features

• 9-Months of weekly meditations, classes, and presentations from leading experts
• Supplemental readings to help deepen your understanding of the weekly teachings
• Online video lecture you can view at your own convenience from the comfort of your home or office
• Guided meditations that show you how to enhance introspection, develop awareness, cultivate positive emotions and evoke insight
• Q&A calls with Nalanda faculty to share additional insights
• Self-designed Capstone Project to showcase your application of the advanced training

What Will I learn?

This 9-month training program provides a comprehensive foundation for integrating contemplative psychology and meditation practice into contemporary psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, object relation, interpersonal, family-systems therapies and related care giving fields. You’ll learn how to use mindfulness-based psychotherapy to combine safe, exploratory dialog with time-tested practical skills and age-old contemplative insights aimed at embodying your clients’ innate potential for healing and happiness.

Foundations of Buddhist Psychology

Learn key insights from one of the world’s oldest surviving psychologies to help you understand the nature of the mind, assess symptoms, determine etiologies and prognosis and offer effective treatment in a manner unlike any contemporary system.

You’ll hear lecture and participate in meditations led by today’s leaders in meditation and contemplative science:

• Sharon Salzberg, the most prominent Buddhist meditation teacher in the West and acclaimed author
• Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., Nalanda Institute Founder, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices on healing, learning and development
• Miles Neale, PsyD, one of the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy
• Emily Wolf, Ph.D., director of the Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program and private practice clinician focused on integrating contemplative methods into Western psychodynamic therapy

Essentials of Mindfulness Meditation

Go beyond simple versions of mindfulness into the depth and sophistication of its original method of mediation prescribed in contemplative science.

Let the Nalanda faculty show you how much more value there is for your clients beyond mainstream presentations. You’ll enjoy lectures from guest faculty including:

• Robert Thurman, Ph.D., recognized worldwide authority on religion and spirituality, Asian history, world philosophy, Buddhist science, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Ethan Nichtern, Buddhist teacher, author, and activist who has lectured at Brown, Wesleyan, Yale, NYU, and Antioch
• …and more

Neuroscience of Meditation

See how neuroscience can inform why, how and what mindfulness-based techniques can help your clients engage in healthier behaviors while improving their emotional regulation, concentration, and ability to restructure unhelpful thoughts.

You’ll gain the knowledge you need to inform your practice from today’s leading voices in the field of neuroscience and research, including:

• Rick Hanson, Ph.D., psychologist, teacher, New York Times best-selling author and authority on self-directed neuroplasticity
• Richard Davidson, Ph.D., groundbreaking researcher and one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World”
• Sonia Sequiera, Ph.D., neuroscientist and researcher focused on how meditation can be used to improve health in diverse populations
• …and more

Clinical Applications of Mindfulness: Mechanisms of change and effects

Examine the many ways that mindfulness practices have been effectively applied in clinical context to help clients manage stress, reduce addictions and anxiety, prevent depressive relapse, and facilitate insight, self-compassion, affect regulation, secure attachment and behavior modification.

Discover how you can apply Mindfulness Based Therapies (such as MBSR, MBCT, and MBRP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and more from leading clinicians such as:

• Erin Olivio, Ph.D, clinical psychologist in private practice, former Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, and the former Director of the Columbia Integrative Medicine Program
• Jon Kaplan, Ph.D., clinical psychologist that serves as the director of the SoHo CBT + Mindfulness Center, which specializes in providing innovative cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness training for adults, teens, children, couples, and organizations
• Bart van Melik, M.A., a meditation and Insight Dialogue teacher focused on working with diverse populations, including bringing meditation to juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, VA hospitals and New York City public schools
• Leslie Blackhall, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Humanities at the University Of Virginia School of Medicine and Director of Palliative Care Services
• …and more

Contemplative Psychotherapy: Integrative nuances

Review a variety of ways experts have thoughtfully integrated Buddhist psychological insights and mindfulness practices into their own clinical work so you too can be well informed about how to effectively apply these methods into your own treatment with confidence.

Get the insight you need to tackle the toughest clinical cases from experts including:

• Paul Fulton, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance, and board member/co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
• Chris Germer, Ph.D., author, international speaker and co-developer with Kristen Neff of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
• Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D., critically acclaimed author and creator of meditative psychotherapy
• Pilar Jennings, Ph.D., psychoanalyst, author and researcher at the Columbia University Center for Study of Science and Religion where she explores the intergenerational transmission of trauma
• …and more

Learn to Combine the Major Elements of Mindfulness-Based Contemplative Psychotherapy into Your Practice:

Attuned presence facilitated by mindfulness training to help you and your clients relax and stay more connected despite ever present distractions.

Emotional self-regulation practices to allow you and your clients to develop the necessary affect tolerance needed to avoid reactivity and maladaptive coping mechanisms.

Meta-cognitive insight to help you and your clients learn how to examine thoughts with greater clarity, perspective, and decrement leading to profound discoveries and insights.

How is the program organized?

During the 9-month certificate training, you will engage in:

• 36 weeks of comprehensive online video training — an in-depth curriculum designed by the Nalanda Institute and taught by a faculty of leading scholars, practitioners, world-class meditation teachers, pioneering mindfulness and compassion researchers, and renowned clinicians.
• Supplemental readings to help deepen your understanding of the weekly teachings.
• Capstone Project — to showcase your course learning as it relates to your field of practice.
• Q&A sessions with Nalanda Institute faculty — to hear additional insight in applying contemplative psychotherapy to your practice.

Four Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation

Week 1 | Four Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation

Foundations of Buddhist Psychology

Week 2 | Four Noble Truths: Foundations of Buddhist Psychology

Week 3 | Introduction to Contemplative Psychotherapy: Defining Mental Illness and Optimal Health in Classic Buddhist Psychology

Week 4 | Buddhism: Historical and Philosophical Developments**

Week 5 | Mind and Mental Factors: The Basic Mind Science of Buddhist Psychology

Week 6 | Karma: Psychological Causality within the Context of Dependent Origination

Week 7 | Freedom and Clarity of Mind: Natural strategies to help clients find relief

Week 8 | Selflessness**

Week 9 | The Eightfold Path and Three Disciplines: Comprehensive treatment strategies informed by Buddhist psychology

Week 10 | Introduction to the Capstone Project and Meditation Teach-backs**

Neuropsychology of Contemplative Practice

Week 11 | Neuropsychology and Contemplative Practice as it Relates to Stress and Trauma

Week 12 | Limbic system and attachment: Resonance, Regulation, and the Mammal Brain

Week 13 | Neuroscience of Awakening: The clinical application of self-regulatory practices

Week 14 | Neuroscience of Compassion: Clinical Applications for compassion-based meditation strategies

Week 15 | First Guided Meditation Teach-back Opportunity**

Clinical Applications and Mindfulness-based Interventions

Week 16 | Mindfulness Based Therapies: MBSR, MBCT, MBRP

Week 17| Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Week 18 | Treatment of Personality Disorders and DBT

Week 19 | Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Based Couples and Family Therapy

Week 20 | Mindfulness for Youth at Risk**

Week 21 | Living, Dying and the Problem with Hope

Week 22 | Mindfulness in Trauma Treatment

Week 23 | Second Guided Meditation Opportunity**

Integrative Approaches

Week 24 | Attachment, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Week 25 | Meditation Teaching Methodology, Review**

Week 26 | Mindfulness Practice as Advanced Training for the Clinician

Week 27 | Loving-kindness Meditation**

Week 28 | Self-compassion and Psychotherapy**

Week 29 | Meditative Therapy

Week 30 | Opportunity to Develop Your final Capstone Project.**

Week 31 | Practicing Meditative Therapy

Week 32 | Healing the Selfless Self / Working with Transference and Countertransference

Week 33 | Intersubjectivity and Interpersonal Dynamics in Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Week 34 | Spiritual Bypassing

Week 35 | The Love of Space: Mindful Caregiving and the Ethics of Presence

Week 36 | Capstone Project Presentation**

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Supplemental Readings

Discover supplemental readings that compliment your weekly lessons. Selected by course instructors, the recommended readings will help you establish a familiarity with research findings and current literature on contemplative science and provide you with further insight and guidance on developing your practice.

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