CMC News + Courses + Events
December 20, 2024: Please join us for a live, virtual benefit event hosted by the Center for Mindfulness & Compassion to raise funds in support of Internal Family systems Research. In a world that often feels overwhelming, how do we nurture hope and compassion? Join us for Finding Hope in Hopeless Times, a 90-minute live-online event designed to inspire and empower. This free benefit event offers a unique opportunity to hear from some of the leading voices in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and compassionate mental health. The event will feature a dynamic discussion with: Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, best-selling author and founder of Internal Family Systems, Martha Sweezy, PhD, Hanna Soumerai, LICSW, and Dilara Ally, PhD, LCSW, moderated by Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD. Register, donate, and find full details here.
January 6, 2025: For this Grand Rounds, we will welcome world renowned mindfulness teacher, Sharon Salzberg, who will present Inner Refuge: Mindfulness Practices for Sustaining Strength in Crisis. Learn more and register here.
January 15, 2025: Get curious and become resilient! We are excited to once again offer our very own 8-week Mindful Behavior Change program, shown in studies to be effective in helping with anxiety, depression, and stress as well as those who are coping with chronic illness to increase their capacity for health behavior change, self-compassion, body awareness, and emotion regulation. If you have any health-based New Year resolution, this program can help get you on the right track. Consider purchasing it as a gift for someone else - available in our registration options. Learn more and register here.
May 1, 2025: We are excited to again offer the gold standard of 8-week mindfulness programs - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). There is an optional orientation day on April 24, a good way to meet your teachers and get an overview of the program. Sliding scale rates, register and learn more here.
November 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2025: We are thrilled to once again offer our Mindful Behavior Change - Group Leader Training (MBC GLT); a 5-day experiential program with a mix of didactic, individual, and small group exercises designed to help attendees learn basic skills for leading mindfulness groups in clinical or community settings. This program introduces the foundation to deliver our 8-week Mindful Behavior Change (MBC) course, formerly known as Mindfulness Training for Living Well, a trauma-informed, therapeutic mindfulness-based intervention. The MBC course is the basis for our extensive Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MTPC) research studies. Learn more about the creation of this program here and our research results here.
Visit our Mindful Mental Health page for more information on clinical programs covered by insurance.
We at CMC denounce acts of all forms of violence and racism. We denounce the persistent and dehumanizing systematic brutality against Black, Indigenous, and all communities of Color. We condemn oppression and its impact on intergenerational trauma, health, and well-being at the individual, community, and global levels.
Belonging, Equity and Anti-Racism at CMC
CMC is engaging in reflection as individuals and as an organization with support from our internal committee, BEAR (Belonging, Equity, and Anti-Racism). BEAR formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the escalation of the Black Lives Matter movement, with support from the Seven Stones Embodying Anti-Racism and Healing Collective Trauma course in 2021. In BEAR, we facilitate discussion, intentional reflection, and Center-wide change for and within our staff, volunteers, group leaders, clinical faculty, and leadership. In particular, the committee operates with an understanding that those with the most structual power (e.g., white, upper class, cisgender, male) have the main role and accountability in dismantling the systems they benefit from (e.g., white body supremacy) and creating culture (e.g., collectivist anti-racist white culture) that actively fulfills this aim, particularly within cross-cultural mindfulness teaching and research. To read more, please visit the BEAR page.
If you have a concern, comment, or request for the ways CMC can improve its mission to support belonging, equity and anti-racism, please email cmcbearcommittee@challiance.org.
