Professional Trainings
The following professional trainings in meditation-related difficulties, meditation safety and trauma-sensitive mindfulness are available to meditation teachers, clinicians, educators , mindfulness/meditation organizations.
Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl and David Treleaven
Drs. Britton and Lindahl partnered with trauma-sensitive mindfulness expert David Treleaven to offer a 3-day training “first dO No Harm” meditation safety training for meditation teachers, mindfulness providers, clinicians, and educators.
The workshop develops the competencies one needs to work skillfully with meditation-related challenges and includes:
detailed descriptions of different types of meditation-related challenges;
the circumstances that contribute to their impact and duration;
the different ways they are interpreted and appraised;
and best practices for working with challenges as a meditation practitioner or a meditation teacher.;
legal and liability issues around informed consent, screening, and monitoring
Access to the Meditation Safety Toolbox
The FDNH training has been offered by meditation and mindfulness organizations all over the world:
“Simply the best training I have attended in years, maybe ever. I have been waiting for this topic to be covered like this for at least ten years.””
**2023 Update**
The FDNH Trainings have now been updated to include new research and other new material are are available on the new Cheetah House online courses platform
Dr. David Treleavem, author of Trauma- Sensitive Mindfulness, offers comprehensive resources for training in sensitive mindfulness:
Trauma-sensitive modifications you can incorporate into your teaching and practice
Monthly TSM Podcast where David interviews experts on trauma-sensitive mindfulness.
Online TSM course for mindfulness teachers and clinicians