• Summary
• Program At-A-Glance
• Steps to Apply
• Additional Information & FAQs
  
  • Program Details for Potential TMF 2021 Applicants
  • A List of Approved Retreat Centers
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Information about the Live Online Format for TMF 2021
  • Racial Awareness Training Requirement Document
• TMF 2021 Printable Information Packet

Program Goals

• To oversee, support and supervise the spread of mindfulness in the larger society by training qualified individuals as Mindfulness Facilitators

• To provide participants with training and protocol in facilitating mindfulness practices to share with individuals, groups, communities, institutions, professional colleagues and others

• To support participants in furthering their personal understanding and practice of mindfulness

• To provide a community of collegial support for participants

• Lead mindfulness groups and classes, working with populations with which they are already experienced, in or with groups as appropriate to their interest and background, such as:
• Educational settings
• Medical settings
• Psychotherapy settings
• Businesses
• Universities
• Non profits
• Work with individuals to share mindfulness techniques
• Ex. Bring mindfulness to psychotherapy clients; use mindfulness exercises to help individual students at a school or with hospital patients
• Lead mindfulness lectures for the general public or in their field or community
• Develop curriculum suitable to the population they will be working with

January 28-31
April 29 - May 2
August 5-8
November 3-7 (5 days)

All Live Online Zoom Practicums will be held Thursday - Sunday, 9am-5pm Pacific Standard Time. Note: The November Practicum will include Wednesday, 9am-5pm.

• Must have at least four years prior experience with mindfulness or permission of director.
• Must have attended at least one Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) class through MARC—ideally MAPs 1 to learn our methodology (enrollment in Sept/Oct 2020 class series is OK).
• Must have attended at least two 4-night or longer silent mindfulness retreats (see list of approved retreat centers here). We now authorize online retreats as a substitute prerequisite for the in-person retreat format.
• All participants must either have been previously educated in undoing racism or other structural oppression work or agree to participate in this work before our second practicum in April, 2021. (For further info see Racial Awareness Training Requirement Document) 

Friday, October 23, 2020 for all required application materials. 

• Four live online practicums via Zoom, (first three practicums are 4 days, last practicum is 5 days)
• Monthly small group meetings via Zoom
• Regular personal/professional check-ins with mentor
• Online interactive website
• Bi weekly reading and writing assignments
• Twice yearly feedback on student facilitation
• Twice yearly mentorship calls following the completion of the program for two years

• Ongoing personal study and practice
• Participation in one 4-night or longer in person or online silent retreat 
• Ongoing mindfulness placement (i.e. healthcare setting, homeless shelter, youth at risk, business, mental health setting, etc.) unless current job serves as placement (to be determined by TMF faculty)

Core Faculty: Diana Winston, Marvin G. Belzer, PhD.

Guest Faculty: Susan Smalley, PhD, Tanya Odom, Daniel Siegel, MD, Michael Irwin, MD, David Treleaven, Susan Kaiser Greenland, JD, Matthew Brensilver, PhD, and others 

Accreditation and Individual Credentialing

The TMF is an Accredited Mindfulness Teacher Training Program by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA). Upon completion of the TMF, graduates will be eligible for the IMTA individual credential: Certified Mindfulness Teacher- Professional Level (CMT-P).