Mindfulness Certificate Course for Clinical Practice from Terry Fralich

• The virality of mindfulness: Understanding what we’re actually doing
  • Introducing mindfulness practice to clients
  • Mindfulness as a skill-based path for enhanced transformation and change
• The circle of liberation: How formal and informal practices enhance mindfulness skills
• Neuroscience and mindfulness
  • Using mindfulness as self-directive neuroplasticity to change the brain
  • Interpersonal neurobiology and how attachment shapes your clients’ response to the world
  • Understanding the negative side effects of adaptive safety strategies and how they impact your clients
  • How mental models like core negative beliefs are formed

• The 5 core skills of mindfulness
  • Clarifying, setting, and reaffirming intention
  • Cultivating a witnessing awareness
  • Strengthening self-regulation
  • Stabilizing attention
  • Practicing loving-kindness
• How to navigate between the 3 systems and 2 zones of our brain’s hard-wired survival strategies
• Understanding the 4 brain circuits that influence happiness and well-being
• Using mindfulness to stop negative emotions and thoughts
• Improving self-regulation for the foundation of unsettledness
  • How to intentionally settle negative energies to shorten the time that difficult emotions keep clients stuck
  • Tools to avoid emotional hijackings and bring the brain back on line
• How to implement positive visualization practices to change the brain

• Stabilizing the mind and building the foundation of focus and attention
  • Strengthening the ability to hold intentional focus
  • Nurturing the harmony of intention and attention
• Using mindfulness to change the negative bias of the brain’s default mode
• Understanding how to help clients set intentions for consuming digital media without triggering symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and more
• Utilizing mindfulness tools to practice loving-kindness
  • Tools for calming the inner critic and self-judgement
  • Practices for developing non-judgmental awareness and compassion for the self and others
• Developing mindful transitions and practices that stick for clients
  • Implementing the 4-word daily practice

• Talking to your clients about implicit memories and how they contribute to strong and emotional responses
• Using intentional check-ins to strengthen daily mindfulness habits
• Cultivating the placebo effect to treat chronic pain, anxiety, stress, and more with mindfulness and sensory experiences
• Implementing mindfulness strategies to change the patterns of unhealthy habits
• Using metatherapeutic processing to amplify and install the positive moments of your therapeutic sessions into your client’s daily life
• Applying what you’ve learned in practice — meditation exercises to bring it all together

Unlike general definitions and concepts of mindfulness, Five Core Skills describes, in clear language, a skill-based and integrated practice you can use right away to reduce stress, minimize suffering, and enhance the life of your clients.

With the insights, exercises, and meditations in Part One, all the resources are there to help you experience peace through living more mindfully. In Part Two, author Terry Fralich draws on his 35 years of experience with personal essays about mindfulness in the context of nature, relationships, sex, and service — sharing the magic and miracles fully revealed with mindfulness practice over time.

Cultivating Lasting Happiness is the definitive practical guide to understanding mindfulness. Terry Fralich has created a path for developing awareness and skills to minimize suffering and maximize positive states — all to enhance well-being. With insights, case examples, exercises, meditations, and practice guides, you have all the tools to weave the seven steps of mindfulness into a beautiful tapestry and establish a more creative and joyful way of life for yourself and your clients.