Buddhist Psychology Training (BP1T21)

Pre-screening is required before registering for this training program. DO NOT continue with payment, if you have not completed an application first. Please Go Here to Apply. Applications will be open until the end of the day on January 18, 2021. A waiting list will be created if our capacity is reached.

Prerequisite:
This training is designed for therapists, educators and those in allied fields. Participants must have attended at least one daylong retreat with an Insight Meditation teacher or community (e.g. Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Meditation Center, etc.) prior to the start of the training.

Description:
This training for therapists, educators and those in allied fields, will provide an immersion in Buddhist psychology and the meditation practices that illuminate our minds and transform habits that compound suffering.

We’ll dive into the scientific research on mindfulness and its increasing prominence in psychotherapeutic interventions, exploring data regarding the efficacy of mindfulness and the mechanisms through which mindfulness confers its benefits.

The training will examine the convergences and tensions between clinical research and Buddhist psychology, and describe ways to integrate mindfulness into treatment.
Only when one has truly made oneself a patient can one become a healer. In practicing mindfulness meditation and studying Buddhist psychology, we become the patient. Through our practice and our evolution, our own being becomes a therapeutic instrument that serves the well-being of those we serve.

Program training period is January 22 – May 16, 2021. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

• Jan 22-24 (3 days)
• Feb 13
• March 7
• April 24
• May 14-16 (3 days)

Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 18 CE credits for $180 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, licensed by the APA, California BBS, BRN, or BCE.*

*Please note:

1. For those with a different license or with a license from a licensing board different than those listed above, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm 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 18 contact hours.
2. Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
3. For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.