Facilitator Training
Learn how to teach mindful practice programs in medical programs for health professionals.
About Our Facilitator Training
Deepen your skills. Participating in this 5-day, retreat-like workshop will enable you to advance your teaching skills and energize your clinical work through greater attentiveness, self-awareness, teamwork, and self-monitoring in stressful and demanding clinical situations.
Energize your clinical work and teaching. You will develop greater expertise, self-awareness, deep listening and resilience in your role as clinician and teacher. You will help yourself and your future students find joy, provide compassionate care and navigate stressful and demanding situations that clinicians face daily.
Clarify and focus on your own learning needs. We create a learner-centered environment that helps you define and realize you own learning goals, and we promote a learning community in which you will learn from facilitators and colleagues through in individual, small group and large group sessions. Limited to 24 participants.
A participatory, hands-on program that combines didactic presentations and practical training in conducting experiential exercises using narratives, appreciative interviews, inquiry-oriented discussions, and contemplative practices such as mindfulness meditation. You will receive guidance in teaching and facilitation skills in large- and small-group settings.
Designed by physicians for medical practitioners (physicians, NPs, PAs) and others involved in medical practice and medical education.
Implement Mindful Practice® programs. You will learn how to implement programs in medical education and healthcare institutions.
A world-wide reach. Connect with Mindful Practice facilitators from over 20 countries.
Learn How To
Articulate principles of and evidence supporting mindful practice programs.
Demonstrate skills in introducing and conducting key interpersonal elements of mindful practice programs, including salon, narrative exercises, appreciative interviews, and inquiry.
Describe ways of incorporating mindful practice into healthcare institutions.
Demonstrate skills in introducing, guiding, and embodying individual contemplative practices.
Demonstrate teaching and facilitation skills in large-group and small-group settings.
Demonstrate how to anticipate and respond to commonly encountered learner difficulties during mindful practice programs.
Eligibility Requirements
Prior attendance at a Mindful Practice® Workshop of 20 hours or more. This requirement can only be fulfilled by having attended a virtual or residential, 4-day Mindful Practice® workshop (residential options include: Chapin Mill Retreat Center, or similar workshops in Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong or the Netherlands).
Active meditation practice.
Experience teaching health profession students, residents and/or practitioners.
Accreditation
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Certification
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 31.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Upcoming Programs
The Mindful Practice in Medicine Facilitator Manual
Our Facilitator Manual contains materials that we use for our 4-day intensive workshops for physicians and medical educators. The 580-page manual also contains 13 modules with descriptive guidelines and PowerPoint slides. Electronic copies now available for purchase.
Register now
Spots are filling-up for our next Mindful Practice Workshop. Register today to be sure to get your place.
