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MBSR, MSC, & MBHC, Mindfulness for Beginners & Special Events

7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Fee-Based Non-Residential Retreats (note: Donations are non-refundable)

>7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Residential Retreats

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $100
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
< 2 weeks – No refund

Residential Retreats with Financial Support:

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $200
< 2 weeks – No refund

Non-Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: A Deepening Retreat for Practitioners of MBSR, MSC, and Other Secular Mindfulness Programs

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Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Greg Serpa, PhD

  • Location Online
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date Starts Sunday, October 31, 2021
    Ends Saturday, November 6, 2021

    6 nights
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DEEPEN   RESPITE   AWAKEN  
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

In-Person: To attend this retreat in-person at Big Bear Retreat center please click here to register.

This meditation retreat is offered to everyone who is interested in the intersection of the Buddhist teachings of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion), or other Mindfulness-Based Interventions.

This is a great retreat for clinicians, other professionals and caregivers who teach mindfulness, those who are interested in eventually teaching mindfulness, or simply anyone for their own curiosity of the subject. Contemplation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness supports and enriches the practice at every stage along the developmental path of practice.

Caring for others can become exhausting when we don’t pause to nourish the heart and mind. Through exploration of the Four Foundations, practice deepens as burdens of caregiving diminish. A silent meditation retreat can offer just the right medicine to awaken, or re-awaken, your purpose as a teacher.

The retreat will be held primarily in noble – companionable- silence with daily deepening instructions, loving kindness and compassion practices and small group check-ins with the teachers. Each day has periods of guided and unguided meditations, walking meditations, and we suggest a daily mindful movement practice.

A familiarity with formal meditation practice is assumed.

Schedule:
starts: Sunday October 31st – 7-9pm PT for the US Welcoming Ceremony and 17:00 UTC for the European Welcoming Ceremony
ends: Saturday November 6th -11:00am PT / 13:00 UTC

Meal Times:
8-9:30am PT / 15-16:30 UTC
12:30-3pm PT / 19:30-22:00 UTC
6-7:30pm PT / 1:00-2:30 UTC

Please note this retreat meets the requirements for participants in Jack Kornfield + Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification program through Sounds True. 

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By the end of this retreat participants will be able to: 

 Articulate the key aspects of mindfulness as it relates to stress reduction,
coping with pain and illness and enhancing well-being
 Differentiate MBSR from relaxation and other distraction techniques
that may seem similar but are fundamentally and theoretically quite
different in contending with difficulty and enhancing quality of life
 Describe the benefits of prolonged and deepened silent practice for
stress reduction and the development of equanimity
 Apply mindfulness techniques in both personal and professional
settings as a means of contending more effectively with the demands of
both settings
 Integrate mindfulness into social interaction with patients, colleagues,
supervisors, family and friends to facilitate more effective and mindful
communication
 Articulate the potential benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction
(and mindfulness in general) to educate patients and their families
about the benefits of such programs in their own lives

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Continuing Education Units (optional):
Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by theAmerican Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 7.5 CE credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 7.5 CE credit may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 7.5 contact hours.

Note: CE finalization has been submitted and is currently pending. To purchase CEs click here. 

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Dana/Generosity: The registration fees cover admin fees only. There will be an opportunity at the end of the retreat to give dana to the teachers. Thank you for your support!

 

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Berlin to Los Angeles to InsightLA I started my professional life as a Gynecologist at the University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. I had fallen in love with the universality of the Buddhist teachings as a searching teenager and it surely helped me stay sane through medical school and residency. In 2003 my husband, baby daughter... Read more

Greg Serpa, PhD

J. Greg Serpa, PhD, is a clinical psychologist for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He is honored to teach mindfulness to America’s veterans and is the first full-time mindfulness teacher and trainer in the federal system. He is developing a national mindfulness certification program for VA clinicians based upon his book, co-authored with Christiane... Read more

Pricing Options
Class Fee $545
Class Fee with CEs $620
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Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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