FLOURISH

A Transformative Mindfulness Certification Program for Mental Health Professionals

October 12-Dec 14, 2023 on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm

via Zoom

October 10-Dec 19, 2023 on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:15am

@The Riverwalk Group

In-Person

666 Glenbrook Road, First Floor, Stamford, CT

Virtual

**Skipping Thanksgiving**

This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.

Interested in learning more? Check out this virtual lunchtime meditation workshop and info session.

As a mental health professional, you are holding a lot. 

There are the demands of your patients, your personal life, and the constant pressure of holding it all together. It can be exhausting.  

What supports you? What practices hold you together?  What feeds and nourishes you, allowing you to return to your patients and your busy life with more ease, spaciousness, inspiration and energy?

Let Us Support You

We are so excited to invite you to Flourish, a 12-Week Mindfulness Certification for Mental Health Professionals. 

$1200* per person (usually $3,600)

*discounts available

Apply Here

This program helps you build and strengthen a mindfulness practice to support yourself and your patients through LIVE, in-person weekly coaching, instructional videos, guided audio meditations, and custom journal prompts. The final three weeks are devoted to supporting you in creating and leading meditations you can confidently bring with you into your therapy rooms to support your patients. 

This program is perfect for clinical therapists, social workers, LMFTs, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, coaches, and other mental health professionals looking to deepen their meditation practice in community with others.

By the end of Flourish, you will feel:

  • Rejuvenated and spacious in a way that’s not dependent on your surroundings, circumstances or situation.

  • Connected to a community of other therapists, cheering on your growth. 

  • Steady and grounded, using mindfulness tools to find your footing when life throws you curveballs and people push your buttons.

  • Relieved as your inner critics gradually become your friends.

  • Confidence leading your patients in meditation to ease their suffering.

Are you ready to find your way back to yourself?

Over 12 weeks, we’ll move at a pace that allows you to sink deeply into the material and apply it to your life. You will have step-by-step guidance and support from Yael and your team of co-travelers and friends. 

Flourish is not about passively receiving information. It is a transformative coaching experience that applies ancient wisdom to your life, as it is happening - paced to allow all the teachings to sink in deeply.

  • • 9 brief instructional videos (10-20 minutes) to move you through the curriculum

    • 9 weekly guided audio meditations created to support your real-life practice as you go through the curriculum

    • Weekly journaling prompts and exercises to deepen learning on the week’s topic

    • 2 mini virtual retreats: kick-off and closing (built into double sessions on first and last meetings for virtual cohort, 2:00-5:30pm ET)

    • 12 weekly LIVE coaching sessions with Yael Shy and your fellow practitioners to apply the learnings directly to your life (LIVE coaching calls for virtual cohort).

    • A supportive WhatsApp group for participants to share wisdom, questions, struggles and cheerleading, even after the program ends.

    • A practice partner to support your learning experience and commitment to the program

    • A Certificate in Mindfulness Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC to support using the practices in your professional life or as a precursor for a full teacher training program

    • 12 CEU credits available upon successful completion of the program

  • Week 1-4: Drop In

    Step out of the stream of overthinking, over analyzing, re-living the past or anxiously concocting an imaginary future and drop into the still waters of the present moment.

    Practices include: Focus-building meditation, Sense-based meditation, and Emotional regulation

    Week 5-7: Move Closer

    Get curious about the stories you tell yourself. Befriend all parts of yourself and learn how your inner critics might be your greatest gifts.

    Practices include: Narrative journaling, Introduction to working with polarized parts of ourselves, and Radical acceptance and radical welcoming.

    Week 8-12: Open Up

    Claim your wholeness and experience the fullness of life that is waiting for you, right now.

    Practices include: Open awareness meditation, Lovingkindness meditation, Writing and delivering a meditation clinic

  • Special tuition rate for this cohort is $1200* per person (usually $3,600)

    $899* per person for Riverwalk therapists

    Discount codes may not be combined

    Payment plans are always available.

At the conclusion of the experience, you will receive a certification in Mindful Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC. 

This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.

Space is limited!

Apply Here

Testimonials

  • “Flourish is the total package and such a gift! Yael is an incredible resource for therapists who want to deepen their own mindful awareness in order to be fully present and most effective with their clients. Yael's expertise and profound realness blend together seamlessly for a truly supportive, authentic, and enriching learning experience!”

    -Dr. Trysa Shulman, Psy.D

  • “Yael's teaching and coaching produces clarification in profound ways that bring real relief. She has helped me cut through my repetitive rumination to set off changes in my thinking and put me back in my body. She is a rare talent, and I would recommend her to all therapists looking to deepen their own inner work, as well as the work they do with their patients." 

    - Rachel S., Licensed Psychoanalyst 

  • “People often say that in order to be a good caretaker, we must remember to take care of ourselves. Flourish answers the question of how- “how do I take care of myself?” Becoming part of this community was powerful - it allowed me to listen to different parts of myself and welcome them all in. It made space for me to recharge, reflect, and refill my well so that I can give to my family, my friends, and my patients from a grounded place within myself. Some of the most powerful moments were stepping into the meditation facilitator role. I can’t wait to offer my own patients a practical tool for stress relief, chronic pain, and self-care.”

    – Dr. Einat Kadar Kricheli, M.D.

About your facilitator

A woman with shoulder-length light brown hair smiling, standing in front of a green wooden barn door. She is wearing a navy blue top and colorful orange, green, and yellow patterned pants, with a yellow bracelet on her wrist.

Yael Shy is the Founder and  CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she teaches and consults on mindfulness for universities, corporations, and private clients around the world. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the US.

Yael is a graduate of the IJS Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification and has over a decade of teaching and consulting experience and 20+ years of meditation practice experience. She is Adjunct Faculty at New York University and teaches regularly for Columbia Law School and the Ten Percent Happier app. She has been featured on Good Morning America, CBS, Fox 5 News, and in Time Magazine and the Harvard Business Review.

Interested in learning more?

Check out this restorative lunchtime meditation and info session for the Flourish 12-Week Mindfulness Certification program.

In it, you’ll get a flavor for the type of meditation we will learn in the program and feel the powerful rejuvenating effects of this practice.

FAQs

  • The practices I teach are rooted in 2,000+ years of wisdom from Buddhism and other faith traditions, filtered through my 20+ years of practice, but you don’t have to belong to any religion to benefit from its teachings. 

  • This program IS for those people who…

    Want to sink more deeply into a meditation practice in order to FLOURISH in their lives

    Want support from an experienced teacher and a like-minded community as they apply evidence-based, ancient wisdom to their lives

    Are excited to dive deeply, engage in the practices, and authentically and bravely show up in this experience.

    Want to eventually go on to lead and/or teach meditation to others

    Want to supplement their other ways of healing with somatic, body-based ways of finding healing and growth.

    This program is NOT for those who…

    Are brand new to meditation (i.e. no familiarity whatsoever)

    Are seeking a teacher training program (although this is a great precursor to one!)

    Are in an acute crisis without additional psychological support (i.e. therapist)

  • First - you will get a certificate in Mindful Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC at the conclusion of the 12-weeks, which might inspire your work to support or subsidize the cost of the program.

    If this is not an option and you still need support, reach out! We offer payment plans and some limited scholarship funds. Send us a note at info@mindfulnessconsulting.net with subject line: “Flourish Scholarship” to learn more.

  • We are so sure you will love the resources, teachings, coaching and community that we are offering a full refund (minus administrative fees) if you decide it is not for you the first week (7 days) of the program.

  • Although there is a curriculum in Flourish, it is much more than an online class. Rather than just passively intaking information, we will be applying it directly to your individual lives so that you can get support in real time, with an experienced teacher and a community of fellow travelers to cheer you on.

    Meditation coaching isn’t just an intellectual experience. It is about applying evidence-based wisdom to the fight you had with your husband, or the difficult conversation you have to have with your boss. It is about transforming how you talk to yourself when you fail, and how you find faith when everything feels difficult. Yael will give you the tools, yes, but she will also support you as you try them out for yourself and answer questions along the way.

  • Previous participants have used the training they received in Flourish and their Certificates in Mindfulness Practice to guide others in their workplaces, communities, to satisfy the requirements for a longer teacher training program and as a CV enhancement.

    Jenna S., a University Success Coach, used her Flourish training to guide her students in meditation to help ease their daily stress.

    Isabel M., used the training and certification from Flourish to help further her mindfulness credentials. Since Flourish, she has taught workshops using mindfulness techniques to guide others, including a recent gathering of 80 Seattle-based creatives.

    Lauren B., After completing Flourish, she was inspired to teach a mindfulness series to the staff of her organization. She also taught mindfulness to the rabbis that she leads in summer programs and in turn they have been inspired to bring the practices into their synagogues as well.

  • 57% of participants in Flourish continued on to participate in meditation teacher training programs. That means that 43% were not interested in that route, and that is completely fine! Flourish can be an opportunity to give yourself the gift of more clarity, ease and joy - a powerful experience in its own right.

  • Click Here to schedule a time for a 1:1 consultation to see if it is right for you. No pushiness - just an exploration of fit. Let’s chat!