CMC News + Courses + Events
Results from our latest research study were recently published! Read more here about our investigation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Treatment for PTSD.
October 21: Our next Mindfulness & Compassion Grand Rounds speaker is Karen Sheffield-Abdullah, PhD, RN, CNM, FACNM who will discuss Cultural Considerations when Addressing Stress & Anxiety in Black Perinatal People: A Mindfulness Approach. Learn more and register here.
November 1, 2, and 3: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Teacher Training Intensive, take the first step in becoming an MBCT teacher. A key portion of this program will be in-person only as a special opportunity to come to our offices near Boston, MA and be live with our faculty. Learn more here - applications are now open!
November 4: This Mindfulness & Compassion Grand Rounds session features Sahib Khalsa MD, PhD who will discuss The Hidden Conversation: Interoception's Role in Mind-Body Health and Healing. Learn more and register here. This is our Annual Cathy Kerr Memorial Lecture; please learn more about the legacy of her work here.
December 6: Join us for a special Internal Family Systems (IFS) workshop: Couples Therapy! This 3 hour presentation will be an introduction to Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), a model developed by Toni Herbine-Blank to use IFS for couples therapy and will be led by Larry Rosenberg, PhD. Learn more and register here.
Visit our Mindful Mental Health page for more information on clinical programs covered by insurance.
We at CMC denounce acts of all forms of violence and racism. We denounce the persistent and dehumanizing systematic brutality against Black, Indigenous, and all communities of Color. We condemn oppression and its impact on intergenerational trauma, health, and well-being at the individual, community, and global levels.
Belonging, Equity and Anti-Racism at CMC
CMC is engaging in reflection as individuals and as an organization with support from our internal committee, BEAR (Belonging, Equity, and Anti-Racism). BEAR formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the escalation of the Black Lives Matter movement, with support from the Seven Stones Embodying Anti-Racism and Healing Collective Trauma course in 2021. In BEAR, we facilitate discussion, intentional reflection, and Center-wide change for and within our staff, volunteers, group leaders, clinical faculty, and leadership. In particular, the committee operates with an understanding that those with the most structual power (e.g., white, upper class, cisgender, male) have the main role and accountability in dismantling the systems they benefit from (e.g., white body supremacy) and creating culture (e.g., collectivist anti-racist white culture) that actively fulfills this aim, particularly within cross-cultural mindfulness teaching and research. To read more, please visit the BEAR page.
If you have a concern, comment, or request for the ways CMC can improve its mission to support belonging, equity and anti-racism, please email cmcbearcommittee@challiance.org.
