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Professional Development & Mentoring

About this program

The Centre for Mindfulness (the Centre) provides opportunities  for health professionals to learn to facilitate mindfulness programs and sessions.  We recognize that mindfulness teaching and facilitating and program development is a lifelong continuing journey, and practitioners at every level of experience can learn with each other with “beginner’s mind.”

Health professionals can learn to facilitate:

  1. Mindful Healing
  2. MARS-A (Mindful Awareness & Resilience Skills for Adolescents)
  3. MARS-PC (Mindful Awareness & Resilience Skills for Parents & Caregivers)
  4. Thankful Thursdays
Professional Development Scholarship

The Centre offers Professional Development Scholarships for staff at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital to develop their mindfulness teaching and facilitation skills.

To learn more, please contact:  mindfulness@cw.bc.ca.

Other Programs for
Healthcare Professionals

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Mindful Healing

Mindful Healing is an in-person, eight-session in mindfulness course for health professionals that teaches formal and informal mindfulness skills. The goal of this program is to impact, enhance, and support quality of caring, and clinician well-being. 

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