Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Addiction Counselors
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- other Behavioral Health Professionals
- Nurses
Learning Objectives:
- Present the core beliefs of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as they relate to clinical treatment.
- Explore how clients can maintain greater balance and control in dealing with everyday stress
- Explore how clients can embrace the moment with mindfulness meditation to restore a sense of well-being
- Explore how clients can mobilize your deepest inner resources
- Explore how clients can use specific mindfulness-based practices to bring balance to their life
Course Modules / Outline
- Welcome & Introduction
- Background
- What is Mindfulness?
- MBSR and Why Bother?
- Teaching MBSR
- Creating a Community
- Movement and Yoga
- Examining Stress
- Integrating into daily life
- What is Mindfulness
- Moment by Moment with Awareness
- Nonjudgement
- Acceptance and Compassion
- Continual Process
- Exercise – Why Am I Here?
- MBSR – Basics
- Factors
- Accepting and Acknowledging
- Foundations
- Exercise – Object & Senses Mindfulness
- Why MBSR?
- Body Scanning Demonstration
- Sitting Meditation Exercise
- The Body Scan
- Unification
- One Minute Scan
- “Letting Be”
- Walking Meditation Exercise
- Focus and Attention
- One Moment Meditation
- Stress – Intention to Attention to Connect
- The Brain
- Unpleasant vs. Pleasant Events – Sensations & Thoughts
- Coping
- Emotion-Focused versus Attitude
- Communication
- Passive, Avoiding, Aggressive
- Loving-Kindness Meditation Exercise
Why Take This Course?
- You’re overwhelmed by stress — and ready to take control.
Learn how to meet life’s challenges with greater clarity, calm, and balance using proven MBSR techniques backed by neuroscience. - You want to help your clients build emotional resilience.
If you’re a mental health professional, this course offers hands-on mindfulness practices you can integrate into therapy to support healing and self-regulation. - You’re seeking a holistic, practical approach to wellness.
MBSR is more than meditation — it’s a powerful system that blends psychology, body awareness, and compassion to create lasting inner change. - You’ll learn directly from a mindfulness pioneer.
Elana Rosenbaum, a senior MBSR teacher with over 30 years of experience, offers gentle, insightful, and clinically-informed instruction you can trust. - You want lasting tools — not quick fixes.
From body scans to loving-kindness, this course equips you with everyday mindfulness strategies to use long after the videos end.
Meet the Course Expert:
Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, has been integrating mindfulness with psychotherapy for over 30 years. She is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation to cancer care and is a pioneering teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness, the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is the author of the new best-selling The Heart of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction: A MBSR Guide for Clinicians and Clients endorsed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD., and also has authored, Here for Now: Living Well with Cancer through Mindfulness and Being Well (even when you’re sick): Mindfulness Practices for People Living With Cancer and Other Serious Illness.
Elana has a private practice in psychotherapy in Worcester, Massachusetts and is a sought after mindfulness coach, teacher, speaker, workshop leader and research consultant. She has been featured in “Chronicle” on CBS and mentioned in many magazine articles including Yoga Journal, Health, Coping, and the PBS audio series, “Walking through the Storm”. She is currently working on her third book, a workbook of mindfulness exercises for optimal living.
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