The Centre for Mindfulness Research (CMS) is delighted to announce they’ve partnered with Pleasant Care (FC) within the Philippines and the Chinese language Canadian Mindfulness Affiliation (CCMA) to ship an intensive certificates coaching program for facilitating MBCT (Mindfulness-Based mostly Cognitive Therapy), an 8-week scientific program for the prevention and therapy of temper issues.
The coaching initiative consists of a 2-part train-the-trainer program. The primary a part of the coaching program is being delivered by CMS college from December 2021 to March 2022 and is aimed toward creating 4 skilled MBCT facilitators, two from FC and two from CCMA to coach professionals all in favour of studying the right way to facilitate an MBCT workshop. The coaching will cowl facilitation of 4 CMS workshops which might be core to CMS’ MBCT Facilitation Certificates Program.
The second a part of the coaching will likely be delivered by CCMA and FC beginning in spring 2022, and is aimed toward coaching Chinese language and Filipino professionals to facilitate MBCT applications.
Concerning the Companions
FC is a non-profit, non-stock personal group based by USAID in 1999 to serve the medical wants of mid to low-income Filipinos with a deal with reproductive well being, together with household planning. Since then, FC has expanded its providers according to its mission of offering inexpensive, accessible, and high quality household healthcare providers. Extra lately, and in partnership with CMS, FC has added mindfulness-based psychological well being to its vary of providers. FC can be at the moment engaged in a Templeton-funded analysis undertaking together with CMS entitled ‘A Mindfulness Based mostly Program to Advance Compassion and its Associated Virtues in Younger Filipino Adults’.
CCMA is a non-profit group established in 2020 and registered in Canada. Its mission is to combine high-quality mindfulness-related programs and trainers in North America. It intends to assist Mandarin audio system worldwide by utilizing mindfulness to scale back anxiousness and stress, together with offering mindfulness coaching applications to Mandarin talking Chinese language in Mainland China. CCMA’s major curiosity on this undertaking is in buying the abilities to successfully practice Chinese language professionals to facilitate MBCT applications inside their native communities.