Cheetah House First Do No Harm Meditation Safety Training

Level 3: INTERMEDIATE PRACTICUM

The intermediate level provides hands on, individualized training in specific competencies for preventing, detecting and working with meditation-related challenges including:  Creating site-specific Screening, Monitoring and Safety Protocols; Person-centered approaches, Socratic questioning; Meditation Assessment Process (myMAP) and Scaffolding; . Each topic consists of on-demand coursework followed by an experiential opportunity to practice those skills and get feedback from faculty.

The intermediate practicum includes experiential skill building and interactive workshops with direct supervision by training faculty. Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other professional caregivers are invited to attend. Other professionals including mindfulness, meditation and yoga teachers, and coaches are also welcome to attend.

Completion of levels 1 and 2 are a encouraged to attend Level 3.

Level 3 can also be attended first, and followed by Level 1 and 2.

Level 3: INTERMEDIATE Courses

LEVEL 3A: Safety infrastructure

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In the Screening and Monitoring module, you will learn how to appropriately monitor your students or clients for meditation-related adverse effects, including best practices and common fallacies. You will be given a buffet of options to choose from and then create a monitoring system that makes sense for your specific context or situation. In the 2nd session, you will present your plan and get feedback from your training cohort and faculty.

In the Creating a Safety Protocol module, you’ll learn the essential elements of a crisis protocol, including informed consent, legal liability, and crisis plans. You will be given crisis plan examples and a range of templates. You will create a safety protocol for your specific context or situation and receive feedback from faculty.

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 2

  • Faculty: Willoughby Britton, PhD

  • cost: $100

  • Didactic video: on demand (coming soon)

  • Live Workshop date: October 8th, 2026- 12pm EST

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 2

  • Faculty: Willoughby Britton, PhD
    cost: $100

  • Didactic video: on demand (coming soon)

  • Live Workshop date: October 27th, 2026 - 12pm EST

LEVEL 3B: Working with meditators-in-distress

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The Initial Consult module will walk you through how to interact with a meditator-in-distress and what information you need when deciding what to do next.

In the Meditation Assessment Process (myMAP) module, you will learn to assess whether a meditation practice is a good or poor fit for a specific client using myMAP, followed by discussion/Q+A with faculty and your training cohort.

In the Scaffolding module, you will learn the art of scaffolding by being a scaffolder, scaffoldee, and observer. You will receive step-by-step instructions, handouts for home practice, 3 live scaffolding sessions with supervision, and feedback from faculty.

In the Challenging Beliefs module you will learn to investigate limiting beliefs with Socratic dialogue derived from Cognitive Processing trauma therapy.

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 2

  • cost: $100

  • Didactic video: on demand (coming soon)

  • Live Workshop date: November 5th, 2026 - 12pm EST

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 2

  • cost: $100

  • Didactic video: on demand (coming soon)

  • Live Workshop date: December 15th, 2026 - 11am EST

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 4

  • cost: $240

  • Didactic video: on demand

  • This video was part of the Meditation and Dissociation 6 part bundle, so you most likely already have access

  • Live Workshop 1: January 19th, 2026 - 12pm EST

  • Live Workshop 2: February 2nd, 2026 - 12pm EST

  • Live Workshop 3: February 16th, 2026 - 12pm EST

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 2

  • cost: $95

  • Didactic video: on demand register here

  • Live Workshop date: January 5th, 2026 - 12pm EST

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In the Person-centered approach module participants learn and practice essential skills like active listening and investigating ambivalence with motivational interviewing in two live workshops.

  • Prerequisites: Level 3 application

  • #of sessions: 3

  • cost: $160

  • Didactic video: on demand (coming soon)

  • Live Workshop 1 date: November 17th 2026 -12pm EST

  • Live Workshop 2 date: December 1st, 2026 - 12pm EST