This certification program is a heart-based community-driven model for forging a radical mindfulness movement. During the 200-hour program, participants explore frameworks of mindfulness and meditation practices based in an experience that is inclusive, trauma-sensitive, and socially responsible. The program is for folks wishing to deepen their practice and for those who are interested in becoming certified to facilitate within their communities. A facilitator steps outside of the teacher-student hierarchy, welcomes a wisdom democracy in any setting, and honors nature and the body. This pathway consciously dismantles traditional structures of education through experiential learning and reflecting back each other’s growing edges.
Each year, we re-vamp the curriculum, ensuring our social justice language and training practices are the most up-to-date and responsive to what our community needs are. We also offer $30,000 in scholarship funding to BIPOC who are interested in becoming certified. The mindfulness movement has been traditionally white-washed. We seek to push back on this systemic problem by graduating at least 10 new facilitators identifying as BIPOC each year.
