Event Details

Mindful Education Institute - Retreat 1

Co-Sponsor: Mindful Education Institute

Contact Name: Juliana Johnson

Website: juliana@mbaproject.org

Phone: 415-824-2048

Date: 8/5/2012

End Date: 8/10/2012

Time: All Day

CE Hours: 19.000

The Mindful Education Institute’s (MEI) year-long teacher training is a journey of self-discovery and awakening as well as a path to becoming a skilled and creative mindfulness educator. MEI’s goal is to support the real-world implementation of mindfulness-based programming for youth in diverse environments including K-12 schools, foster care facilities, juvenile detention centers, and community-based sites. With mindfulness, social and emotional literacy, empathy training, and other awareness-based practices, educators around the world are helping youth to cultivate insight, compassion, attention, and other skills that have the capacity to transform their lives, families, and societies. MEI draws together preeminent teachers to offer you the most comprehensive, supportive, and dynamic mindfulness and education training available. Mindfulness is the radical notion of opening to the truth of what is happening right here and now, which allows life to be marked by openness, courage and deep compassion. Research shows that mindfulness decreases stress, attention deficit issues, depression, anxiety, and hostility in children, while benefiting their health, well-being, social relations, and academic performance. Children can easily learn these techniques, and when learned young, they become lifelong tools. The core aspect of becoming a good mindfulness teacher is cultivating ones own practice. Much of the retreat time, talks, and projects will be focused on deepening personal mindfulness practice and identifying ways to become more present and empathic in relation to the individual’s population. MEI believes that the facilitator is 99% of what makes the intervention effective; the curriculum is 1%. A big focus of the MEI training will be getting participants more comfortable in their own skin, more improvisational, and dynamic in teaching.

Notes:APA info on our website can be seen here. http://www.mindfuleducationinstitute.com/programs/ceus/

Schedule: * indicates that this portion of the program is being counted towards CEs and corresponds to the listed learning objectives. While there are many more learning objectives throughout the program, due to the length of meditation, those portions may not be counted towards CEs and so we do not list those learning objectives on this form. SUNDAY *7:00-9:00- Daniel Rechtschaffen, Amani Simms, Pam Dunn Welcome and overview of program. Creating agreements and building a container. Getting to know each other. Introducing faculty. MONDAY *9:30-10:40 Daniel Rechtschaffen Overview of Field. Explaining the history of the mindfulness in education field. History of mindfulness and its application to the education structure. *10:40-11:50 Pam Dunn- Learning about our assumptions. Working with diversity. Getting to know each other and where we are coming from. *11:50-12:15- Practice- Megan Cowan Meditation Practice- Mindful Breathing *2:00-3:30- Chris Mckenna Contemplative Context. Explanation of Buddhism and other contemplative traditions and how mindfulness has developed in the Western world. *3:30-4:30- Pam Dunn Cross the line exercise- Working with diversity and prejudice. Facing our differences in the group. Seeing each other clearly. *4:30-5:00- Vinny Ferraro Meditation- Heart Practice *7:00-9:00- Megan Cowan Talk on meditation and its benefits. Creating the context for having everyone enter mindful silence. TUESDAY 9:30-10:30 Megan Cowan Guided Sitting Instruction 10:30-11:15 Vinny Ferraro Walking meditation 11:15-12:20 Meena Srinivasan Mindful Eating Practice 2:00-3:00- Chris Mckenna Mindfulness of the body 3:00-4:05Nature Walk/ Cohort- Daniel 3:50-4:05 Break 4:10-5:00 All MEI Faculty- Cohort Discussions *7:00-9:00 Vinny Ferraro Turning the hindrances into the path. Talk about the difficulties we face in our practice and how to move through them WEDNESDAY 9:30-11:15 Vinny Ferraro Guided Meditation 11:15-12:30 Daniel Rechtschaffen Guided Meditation Instruction 2:00-3:40 Amani Simms Guided Movement and Meditation Instruction 3:40-4:30 Joanna Harper Guided Meditation Instruction 4:30-5:00- Meena Srinivasan Guided Meditation Instruction *7:00-9:00 Jack Kornfield Talk on bringing meditation into daily life. How to live your life with an open heart. THURSDAY *9:30-10:00- Jack Kornfield Meditation Instruction *10:00-12:30 Jack Kornfield Coming out of silence and learning to speak and act from a mindful space. Creating vows for ourselves to live our lives with integrity. *2:00-5:00- JoAnna Harper Council Practice. Learning the council structure and how to use council to create authentic dialogue. Working within our cohorts to develop trust and intimacy. 7:00-9:00- All MEI faculty Panel on bringing mindfulness into daily life. Each presenter describing how they integrate mindfulness into their lives. Questions from participants about how to be mindful in daily life. FRIDAY 9:00-11:00- Daniel Rechtschaffen & Chris Mckenna Explanation of the year structure and how to use the manual we provided. Explanation of technology and online classes. 11:00-12:00- Amani Simms Ending Ritual- Circle and making goodbyes.