Faculty Mind-Body Skills Training

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC specializes in mindfulness programs including mind-body skills training for students and faculty. Mind-body techniques are effective for improving stress, anxiety, depression and well-being across a wide range of populations (e.g., Saunders et al., 2007; Shapiro et al., 1998). Mind-Body skills include mindful meditation, biofeedback, and guided imagery.

Faculty Facilitator Training Retreats

Adapted from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Educating for Enhanced Self-Awareness and Self-Care: An Experiential Training in Mind-Body Medicine, faculty and staff are trained in mind-body skills by internationally-recognized experts to be able to lead and facilitate courses at their home institution. Training retreats are on hold for the foreseeable future. 

During the immersive three-day retreats, participants practiced mind-body approaches, such as meditation, journaling, biofeedback, and yoga to realize the benefits (manage stress, and foster well-being, among others) through personal experience. Lectures grounded the practices in neuroscience and physiology, while experiential sessions demonstrated how to lead mind-body skills groups. Participants obtained the necessary training, tools, materials, and strategic thinking to help them implement the program in their home institution.

Training retreats are on hold for the foreseeable future.