The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: A Deepening Retreat for Practitioners of MBSR, MSC, and Other Mindfulness Programs

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Big Bear Retreat Center is a meditation retreat center located in the forested mountains of Southern California (2.5 hour drive from Los Angeles) on about 100 acres of private forested land and connected to the national forest, giving us plenty of space for hiking trails, peace, and serenity. It’s a wonderful place for all forms of practice – a space to RECONNECT, RECHARGE, and REST.

DEEPEN   RESPITE   AWAKEN
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
A retreat for teachers of MBSR, MSC, and other secular mindfulness programs

This meditation retreat is offered to clinicians and other professionals who teach mindfulness, MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion), or other Mindfulness-Based Interventions.

Contemplation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness supports and enriches the practice at every stage along the teacher’s developmental path. Caring for others can become exhausting when we don’t pause to nourish the heart and mind. Through exploration of the Four Foundations, practice deepens as burdens of caregiving diminish. A silent meditation retreat can offer just the right medicine to awaken, or re-awaken, your purpose as a teacher.

The retreat will be held primarily in noble – companionable- silence with daily deepening instructions, loving kindness and compassion practices and small group check-ins with the teachers. Each day has periods of guided and unguided meditations, walking meditations, and we suggest a daily mindful movement practice.

A familiarity with formal meditation practice is assumed.

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Continuing Education Units (optional):
Psychologists: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by theAmerican Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 16 CE credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 16 CE credit may be applied to your license renewal throughthe California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 16 contact hours.

Note: CE finalization has been submitted and is currently pending

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Dana/Generosity: There will also be an opportunity to offer Dana for the teachers and center at the end of the retreat. Thank you for your support!

Online: To attend this retreat online please click here to register.