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Professional Development and Teacher Training Program in Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting
Program DescriptionFor Prospective ApplicantsIntroductionWe are excited to announce our new eleven week Professional Development and Teacher Training Program (PDTT) in Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP). The program was initiated in response to the growing number of health professionals who are interested in the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Program and want to make it available to the families they serve. The major life passages of pregnancy and childbirth offer a window of opportunity for transformational learning. In MBCP, parents-to-be learn the practice of mindfulness to work with the stress, pain and fear that are a normal part of this profound journey into the unknown. MBCP provides systematic, intensive training in mindfulness practice fully integrated into the current knowledge of the psychobiological processes of stress, pregnancy, labor, birth, the postpartum period and the physiological, emotional and relational needs of infants. As they practice mindful awareness, parents-to-be are able to live this ordinary--and extraordinary--life transition with greater confidence, wisdom and joy. The impact of MBCP reaches well beyond the birth experience itself. Tapping inner resources cultivated in the course, new parents find that they have in fact learned inner emotional tools to attune to their infants’ needs. In this way, healthy parent-child relationship patterns, the basis of life-long emotional intelligence and optimal neurological development of the baby, are established from the beginning. Generational family patterns of reactive, insensitive care are interrupted and replaced with affectionate attention and healthy responses. Parenting and family life become a mindfulness practice as parents learn to be present for themselves, their children and their partner.
Program DescriptionThe Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting PDTT Program is an opportunity to:
While the PDTT Program is designed for those interested in teaching MBCP, it is also appropriate for medical and mental health professionals seeking an introduction to mindfulness meditation and understanding its complementary relationship to the domains of obstetrics, midwifery, nursing, pediatrics, family medicine and clinical psychology. Childbirth educators, lactation consultants, infant massage instructors, prenatal and postnatal yoga instructors, labor, delivery and postpartum nurses, early childhood educators, infant mental health professionals, family therapists, social workers or anyone interested in maternal-child health and the health and well-being of families will also find the program valuable for their work—and their lives. Beginning meditation practitioners may apply. For those interested in teaching MBCP, the fundamental principle is that the quality and integrity of one’s teaching can only come from the depth of one’s own extensive, personal experience with meditation practice. Each professional will enter into the program with her or his own unique background, skill set, and vision of how they want to bring this training into their work and their lives. At the end of the 11 week training program participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the PDTT Program. However for some, the PDTT program may not yet be a complete preparation for teaching MBCP. Depending on the participant’s experiential background and training, additional learning and skills may be necessary before one is ready to begin teaching this profoundly transformational work. Guidance and specific recommendations from the course instructor will be given to each participant regarding the recommended steps to take on the unfolding path of becoming an MBCP instructor. Personal commitment, dedication, individual responsibility and imagination are essential to this path.
Key Elements of the PDTT ProgramThere are three essential and interdependent elements of the training program:
During the seminar there will be an opportunity to lead meditation practices taught in the MBCP program and receive feedback. The evolution and contextual background of MBCP, its relationship to the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center from which this work has emerged, and the professional aspects of MBCP relevant to the background and career paths of each professional will be included. The key elements of the MBCP PDTT Program are combined in the following schedule:
Participants will receive a total of 64.5 hours of training. 25.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be available. Both the seminar and the MBCP course will be taught by MBCP’s founder, Nancy Bardacke, CNM.
Learning Objectives
Upcoming Course DetailsThe seminar will meet once a week with instructor Nancy Bardacke, RN, CNM, MA from 2:30pm-5:00pm beginning on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Program participants will attend the 9-week MBCP course with the expectant parents from 6:45pm-9:45pm beginning on Wednesday, September 16, 2009. The daylong session will be on Saturday, October 31 from 9:30-4:30pm. The PDTT seminar ends Wednesday, November 25, 2009. There will be no class on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Classes are held at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Fees: $1550 includes course materials: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, a training manual, a class workbook and two CDs for home practice. Currently, only personal checks will be accepted.
How To ApplySend a resume or CV and a letter of intention (2 pages maximum) describing your:
Please email the application letter and CV or resume to Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA at bardacken@ocim.ucsf.edu and submit your $50.00 non-refundable application fee online or with this application form to: Professional Development and Teacher Training Program in MBCP Once your application and application fee are received, Nancy will contact you to schedule a phone interview. You are also welcome to contact Nancy at 510-595-3207 or email bardacken@ocim.ucsf.edu with any questions about the program. Applicants will be notified of admission, waitlist or decline within one to three weeks of receipt of application. Space is limited. Early application is advised.
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