Gain valuable training, mentorship, and integration guidance for implementing CMC’s 8-week Mindful Behavior Change program, which can be offered in clinical settings (and reimbursable through insurance) or in community groups through our certification program. The pathway, which includes an 8-week group prerequisite, a 6-day group leader training, and then mentorship for your initial groups, is open to primary care providers, mental health clinicians, community health workers, and educators, as well as mindfulness and contemplative instructors.

Why Mindful Behavior Change (MBC)? 

At CMC, we recognize there are many paths to mindfulness and compassion, and many ways to formally integrate these paths into healthcare and our communities. The MBC curriculum was specifically designed for integration into primary care and has been tested as the Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MTPC) group format in three Mindful-PC randomized controlled trial research studies. MBC is referral-based, reimbursable through insurance, and incorporates specific modules on chronic mental and physical health conditions; in a clinical setting, one of the two MBC group leaders must be a licensed clinician. MBC has been researched and shown to be an effective intervention for a variety of health and behavior change outcomes. In fact, we have integrated this program within the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a regional healthcare system located in the greater Boston area. MBC can also be offered outside of healthcare organizations as an 8-week educational group, similar to MBIs such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Note: This program was previously named Mindfulness Training for Living Well (MTLW) and is referred to clinically and in our research as Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MTPC); read more about the recent name change to MBC here.

Who should become an MBC Group Leader?

The curricula are designed to be led by primary care providers and mental health clinicians, and could also be led by community health workers, educators, as well as mindfulness and contemplative instructors. The program can be tailored to the setting and community being served. 

For MBC to be led as an insurance-reimbursable modality, at least one group leader needs to be a licensed clinician in the state where the group is offered. Group leaders who are not healthcare providers/licensed clinicians or are not interested in billing for their groups are invited to co-lead MBC with a licensed clinician or are invited to lead MBC in a community setting.

Why become certified? 

The MBC Group Leader Certification Pathway provides clinician and community-based group leader support to uphold the integrity and quality of this specific intervention, and to feel confident about leading the curriculum. The Certification Pathway offers group leaders formal mentorship that includes a feedback process using the Mindfulness-Based Intervention Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC) to help grow confidence that they are delivering the program in a way that is true to themselves, true to the essence of the curriculum, and is safe and effective for participants.

Certified MBC Group Leaders will also be listed in our online directory (in development now) and will receive opportunities through CMC, such as our monthly newsletter, to promote MBC programs. Your certification gives us the confidence to support your efforts in bringing this groundbreaking program to more people.

We hope that healthcare systems will recognize the value of this program to their institutions and to their patients, and will recognize that as an insurance-reimbursable service, MBC offers the potential to recover the cost of the Group Leader Certification Pathway.

How to become a Certified MBC Group Leader:

To register for the pathway, Click here

For Mentorship Information, Click here

For Pathway Rates Information, Click here