This program equips healthcare providers with embodied mindfulness tools to manage stress, regulate their nervous systems, and prevent burnout, fostering greater resilience in high-pressure environments. By cultivating awareness of bodily sensations and emotions, participants learn to respond to challenging situations with equanimity and compassion, improving patient care and provider well-being. The integration of somatic practices into daily routines enhances providers’ ability to maintain presence and empathy, critical for building trust and delivering effective, patient-centered care.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.  

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals:

At the end of the program, you will be better able to:

1. List the four foundations of mindfulness and describe their relevance to clinical and therapeutic settings.
2. Describe a mindfulness of the body practice, cultivating awareness of physical sensations to enhance presence and support grounding;
3. Explain and apply a mindfulness practice centered on feeling tones (pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral) to increase emotional awareness and self-regulation;
4. Describe a mindfulness practice focused on observing the mind, enhancing recognition of thought patterns and their influence on emotional states;
5. Outline and apply a mindfulness practice for observing mental objects or phenomena, fostering clarity and insight into habitual reactions;
6. Utilize somatic mindfulness practices to deepen body awareness and enhance the ability to remain present and connected when working with patients or clients;
7. Utilize mindfulness practices into professional interactions to support care providers in reducing stress and burnout while improving the quality of patient/client care;
8. Describe and demonstrate a mindful breathing practice, improving ease and emotional balance.
9. Explain the benefits of cultivating somatic sensing of thoughts and emotions, emphasizing how bodily awareness can precede and inform cognitive understanding;
10. Describe practices to identify attachment (upādāna) and aversion as bodily sensations, enabling early recognition and skillful response to these states before they dominate cognition;
11. Compare and contrast the sensations associated with relaxation of the heart, softening of the body (ahimsa) and its absence, enhancing awareness of harmful emotional states and supporting compassionate responses;
12. Describe practices for interpreting subtle shifts of contraction in the body and breath, fostering early awareness that enables mindful responses rather than reactive behaviors;
13. Utilize, and share with clients practices to balance the nervous system through somatic awareness, creating conditions for a more sustainable state of ease and openness;
14. Describe breath practices as tools for reducing anxiety, promoting mindfulness, and encouraging a relaxed and open-minded approach to life;
15. Describe the relationship between somatic awareness and the development of skillful emotional regulation, helping patients or clients manage thoughts and feelings in diverse life situations;
16. Utilize mindfulness practices to compassionately regulate thoughts and emotions, reducing judgment and preventing burnout in professional and caregiving roles.

This program offers 24 homestudy CE credits for $??0 for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Please note:

• For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
• For those with a different license than listed above, or with a license from a different board or association than listed on our CEC info page, please contact your licensing board or association directly to request pre-approval/acceptance of CE credits offered at Spirit Rock. Spirit Rock does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed.
• Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 24 contact hours.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
• Attendance is demonstrated through a comprehensive assessment at the end of the course, with a passing criterion of at least a 75% percent score. The assessment may be repeated if necessary.