The mission of East Coast Mindfulness (ECM) is simple: to provide excellent online mindfulness programs for living authentic, healthy, happy lives.
When the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) at University of Massachusetts Medical School closed in July 2019 after almost 40 years, CFM Teacher Trainers Rebecca Eldridge & Margaret Fletcher formed East Coast Mindfulness (ECM) to continue offering programs globally.
Always online. Your space. Your time zone. Your life.
"East Coast Mindfulness provides expert online MBSR teaching and high level training for others to teach the MBSR course with high integrity and depth.”
In addition to offering online mindfulness programs through ECM, our teachers have provided mindfulness programs to organizations small and large, including corporations, medical schools and health systems, non-profits, and more.
The Mindfulness Grad Online Community (MGOC) gathers monthly under the guidance of MBSR Teacher and Teacher Trainer Rebecca Eldridge, and MBSR and MSC teacher Cheryl Shah, for continued learning, practice, and community.
The MGOC is open to graduates of any organization's 8-week Mindfulness-Based course (such as MBSR, MBCT, MSC, and so on) that was held live either in person or online. Sessions are held on the second Sunday of each month (beginning September 8, 2024). Join as few or as many monthly sessions as you'd like.
During each session, we will explore various mindfulness topics through teachings, practice, silent reflection, and speaking & listening.
All graduates are welcome!
The East Coast Mindfulness Global MBSR Teachers’ Meeting (MBSR-TM) will gather monthly for learning, professional development, and community building.
The MBSR-TM is open to MBSR teachers of all experience levels who want to learn, grow, and be in community with other MBSR Teachers and with MBSR Teacher Trainer Rebecca Eldridge. No matter when you initially trained to teach MBSR, or through which organization you trained (or maybe you’re still in the process of training), hopefully you never want to stop learning—about teaching MBSR and about yourself as a human and as an MBSR teacher.
During sessions, we will explore topics related to MBSR and teaching MBSR. These may include assumptions about what MBSR is and what it is not; what “good teaching” of MBSR is and what it may not be; what it means to practice mindfulness and MBSR; the underpinnings of MBSR curricula; best practices of teaching MBSR; your personal and professional experience of teaching MBSR; your questions and wonderings; your own meditation practice; and more.
"When you dwell in stillness, the judging mind can come through like a foghorn...Imagine how it might feel to suspend all your judging and instead to let each moment be just as it is, without attempting to evaluate it as 'good' or 'bad.' This would be a true stillness, a true liberation. Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.”
Whether you’re new to mindfulness or exploring further, please join us for an hour of free mindfulness.
During this live online opportunity, you will—
“East Coast Mindfulness is offering an online course to train MBSR teachers to teach the MBSR curriculum online. I have every confidence that this valuable professional training can amplify and deepen your skillset and personal practice as an MBSR teacher, as well as the technical support necessary to extend your reach through the internet.”
If we’re living life, at some point, we all experience loss. Loss comes in many forms—loss of loved ones, loss of the life we anticipated/planned, loss of homes/jobs/etc. Join Karen Jones in this 2-session course that will encourage participants to use mindfulness-based practices to identify and explore what comes up when we acknowledge and sit with grief and loss.
Various practices will be offered to support recognition of dysregulation, self-regulation, rebalancing, and refocusing. We will explore how the idea of wise attention can contribute to the potential for profound healing insights, and engage in mindfulness practices and self-discovery opportunities that can help us gain insight into what is supportive, stabilizing and healing.
Karen Jones is a Certified MBSR Teacher who holds a master’s degree in behavioral sciences and a bachelor’s degree in public health education. She uses mindfulness-based interventions to help others set intentions for, and achieve, optimal mental and physical well-being. In her work as a Professional Counselor, Karen has helped people address grief, trauma, anxiety, relationship issues, change, and other stressful conditions and situations. She recently retired after 30 years as an outpatient counselor in various settings and is the founder of Mindfulness and Motion, LLC where she focuses on teaching and mentoring about mindfulness.
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