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Freedom Together Global Mindfulness Teacher Training

December 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am - January 10, 2025 @ 5:00 pm EST

Freedom Together is the first internationally accredited Mindfulness Teacher Training Program entirely designed BY and
FOR Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

After being immersed in this unique 1 year-training & mentorship journey with with a community of highly experienced BIPOC teachers, our trainees will be eligible to apply for certification as mindfulness teachers. Our mindfulness training program is designed for future mindfulness teachers who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian or Pacific Islander, Latinx/Latine, Arab, and other people of color.

*The Training Will Be Delivered Over A Year In Nine Monthly Courses Divided Into Three Stages With One Month Off Between Stages:

Here’s what you will learn from this decolonial, access-centered mindfulness program entirely designed BY and FOR BIPOC:

  • Hone the background and ability to share the Buddhist origins and secular history of mindfulness
  • Trained and practiced in the ability to offer culturally relevant and decolonial guided meditations in
      • a) body
      • b) breath
      • c) kindness
      • d) compassion
      • e) somatic
      • f) movement
      • g) spaciousness and inquiry
  • The development and implementation of a 4-6 week mindfulness course for your community.
  • Learning how to apply trauma informed and access centered approaches to teaching mindfulness.
  • Developing the attitudes, skills, and experiences needed to share and teach mindfulness in our own communities.
  • Building community with faculty, facilitators, and peers, co-creating a new mindfulness eco-system that meets the needs and sensibilities of people of color.
  • Becoming a certified mindfulness teacher accredited through the International Mindfulness Teacher Association (IMTA), barring completion of all. prerequisites

Contribute to the evolution of mindfulness for communities of color through their own unique embodiment and development of mindfulness theories, practices and applications grounded in their lived experiences.  To learn more about Freedom Together’s Global Mindfulness Training Certification go to their website here.

Only 50 Seats available for deeper teacher and peer mentoring (1:8 teacher-student ratio). APPLY NOW to be considered.

*Application deadline is January 10, 2025.  Any questions?  Email [email protected]

Details

  • Start: December 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am EST
  • End: January 10, 2025 @ 5:00 pm EST