Supervision in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

The Supervision program gives you the opportunity to meet with a CFM senior instructor, in person or by telephone, to explore issues and questions that arise out of your own self-reflections about your MBSR teaching and presentation.

Through personal support, guidance, exploratory dialogue, and precise feedback, Supervision fosters precision and comprehensiveness in the teaching of MBSR, and encourages an authentic exploration of unexamined habits and patterns that may hinder your effectiveness in teaching and living. Grounded in respect for and trust in the innate genius of Supervision participants, this program is dedicated to investigating, understanding, and honing instructional approaches and skills. You may choose to participate in the supervision process while teaching your own MBSR class.

Once you are accepted into the program, you will be assigned a supervisor who is a senior CFM instructor. You may arrange the number of individual sessions with your supervisor.

Learning Objectives:

• Create supporting instructional materials, including course curricula, audio tapes, or CDs, workbooks, and other teaching resources.
• Explore the dynamics of the participant-practitioner relationship through the lens of mindfulness
• Integrate your personal mindfulness practice into your work.
• Cultivate specific competencies necessary for teaching MBSR, such as present-centered awareness, attentional flexibility and the ability to connect theoretical constructs of stress reactivity and enhanced coping with essential qualities of mindfulness meditation practice.
• Develop sensitive and skillful use of group process, pacing and rhythm, inquiry and investigation, and clear, direct, inviting language.

Prerequisites:

• Completion of one or both of the Oasis Foundational Trainings:
  - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine
  - Practicum in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
  (Preference will be given to applicants who have completed both Foundational trainings, are currently teaching MBSR, and who have completed the Teacher Development Intensive.)
• Ongoing daily meditation and body-centered awareness practice and commitment to the integration of mindfulness into everyday life
• Professional experience and graduate degree or equivalent in the fields of health care, education, and/or social change
• Experience as a group facilitator
• Regular participation in 5-10 day silent, teacher-led mindfulness meditation retreats.

Program Fees:

Application fee: $50 payable to the CFM. Supervision is ongoing and may be initiated at any time, following the acceptance of your application for the program. The fee for Supervision is $125 per hour.

Hourly supervision charges are applied to the following:

• Telephone and/or onsite Supervision sessions
• Review of classroom teaching materials, including audiotapes and CD’s
• Review of teaching demonstration videotape or onsite observation

Fees for Supervision are billed per session hour and due upon receipt of statements.

How to Apply:

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