Online Course: https://praxiscet.com/mbsrt/practicum
Instructor: Gina Biegel, MA, LMFT & Stacie Cooper, MA, PsyD
About This Course
The effects of stress on teens’ mental and physical health today are enormous. Stress does not discriminate. Stress is impinging on ALL youth regardless of race, sex, or class! Fact: 1 in 5 youth 13-18 years of age in the US have or will have a serious mental illness. Now that we recognize the problem, let’s discuss a solution. Join Gina M. Biegel, LMFT, the founder and creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens Program (MBSR-T) and Stacie Cooper, MA, PsyD, teen life coach and mindfulness instructor, for an 6-week course that provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to use with all adolescents. MBSR-T is an evidence-based efficacious therapeutic treatment approach for teens in both clinical and non-clinical settings. In this practicum intensive, Gina and Stacie will teach you how to begin using this evidence-based, cutting-edge approach directly after the training and how to adapt it to various lengths and formats. Not only will you walk away with a myriad of therapeutic tools, but you will have an opportunity to watch recently recorded live MBSR-T classes taught by Gina and Stacie with groups of teens online in their adapted 4-week format. After attending this advanced practicum training, you will be able to teach teens how to shift their thinking away from impulsive, thoughtless, and judgmental ways of reacting to life and to respond mindfully instead. Mindfulness skills provide teens with an anchor and compass to guide them when they feel emotionally dysregulated, stressed, anxious, and depressed. Teach teens to live rather than just exist in an ever-increasing, multimedia- stimulated technological environment. This training is limited to a total of 35 attendees. Sign up today to secure your seat. Prior to registering, please review speaker-planner conflict of interest disclosures and complete CE information.
Schedule
Session 1 | September 22, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EDT
Discuss the specific interventions used in 8-, 4-, and 2-week MBSR-T courses with teens. Education on and the relationships between mindfulness, neuroplasticity, positive neuroplasticity, taking in the good, and resourcing yourself.
Session 2 | September 29, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EDT
MBSR-T Week 1 of 4 Teen and Instructor Introductions:
Defining and Understanding Stress (Good Stress & Bad Stress)
The Role of Life Stressors
Responding to Stress: The Fight-
Flight-Freeze Response Your Stress Waves
Ride the Stress Waves: Manage Your Stress
The Dropping-In Mindfulness Practice to Reduce Stress Stress the Problem, Mindfulness a Solution
Session 3 | October 6, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EDT
MBSR-T Week 2 of 4:
Current Status Assessment and Setting Employ the 4-step mindful check-in to better understand teens’ Intentions (Letting Go of Your Problems)
Introduction to the Mindful Check-In
The Mindful Qualities
Awareness of the Positive and Pleasant Life Moments
Take in the Good: Doing What You Enjoy
How to Be Mindful: Awareness of the Senses
Informal Practice: Mindful of Your Interests
Session 4 | October 13, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EDT
MBSR-T Week 3 of 4:
The Mindful Check-In
Sitting Body-Scan Practice
Assessing and Navigating Your Basic Needs
What is Self-Care?
Positive Self-Care Activities to Resource Yourself
130 Positive Coping Skills
Self-Care Levels I–IV
The Self-Care Water Bottle
Look Up from Your Device
Mindful of Silence
Session 5 | October 20, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EDT
MBSR-T Week 4 of 4:
The Mindful Check-In
Notice the Landscape of Your Thoughts and the Negative Selection Bias
How to Be with Your Thoughts: The Railroad Activity Your Train of Thoughts
Understanding the Role of Mindfulness and Brain Science—Neuroplasticity
Engage in Positive Neuroplasticity with HOT
The Playlists of Your Life: Music and the Role of Positive Neuroplasticity
Taking Mindful Downtime and Refueling Yourself
Gratitude Practice: Be in an Attitude of Gratitude
The Gratitude Tree
Course Celebration
Session 6 | October 27, 2020, 12:30 PM—3 PM EST
Review and deep dive of MBSR-T formats and adaptations (8-week, 4-week, and 2-week). A discussion around the differences and similarities between them. Teaching tips for online versus in-person formats as well as adapting teaching to cultural and developmental needs, current events (Coronavirus) etc., and overall mental and physical health on general well-being.