Welcome to the Training and Community Page. Here you will find information about Mindful Family Living Community Events and our Professional Trainings.

Professional Trainings

As the wide ranging benefits of Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) program on the health and well-being of expectant and new families becomes increasingly known, perinatal health professionals are looking for experience and training in this way of teaching and in exploring how they might bring this powerful skill to those they serve.  In our professional workshops, retreats and trainings, health practitioners will be able to begin or deepen their understanding of mindfulness for their own lives, experience first-hand the mindfulness practices taught in the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Program, and investigate the possibilities for bringing mindfulness into the fields of maternal, child and family health in which they work.

Upcoming Level 1 Training

Professional Development and Teacher Training (PDTT) in Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting

For perinatal and mental health professionals, birthing, postpartum and infant care professionals or anyone interested in the health and well-being of pregnant and birthing families, parents, infants and children.

MBCP Course: Tues Sept 13 - Nov 8 6:45 - 9:45pm
All-day session: Oct 22
Professional Seminars: Wed Sept 13, Wed Oct 18,
Thurs Oct Nov 9 3 - 5pm
For information/application

Mindful Birthing, Mindful Living
A Self-Care Workshop for
Perinatal Health Professionals

October 14-16, 2011
Omega Institute, Rinebeck, NY
Info/registration

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting
5 - Day Professional Training Retreat
for Perinatal Care Providers

January 15 - 20, 2012
Joshua Tree Retreat Center
Joshua Tree, CA

UCSD Center for Mindfulness
This retreat is designed for those interested in exploring teaching MBCP and mindfulness in other settings and for medical and mental health professionals seeking an introduction to mindfulness meditation and understanding its complementary relationship to obstetrics, midwifery, nursing, pediatrics, medicine, particularly family medicine and clinical psychology.  Obstetricians, pediatricians, family practice doctors, midwives, labor and delivery and postpartum nurses, doulas, childbirth educators, lactation consultants, prenatal massage therapists, infant massage instructors, pre and postnatal yoga instructors, infant mental health professionals, early childhood educators, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, counselors, educators or anyone interested in the health and well-being of families may well find this program of value to their work--and their lives.