MCB Calendar

Title of workshop, program, or seminar, etc.: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 9/15/19 – 11/10/19, 8 regular 2.5-hour classes, and one 6-hour retreat

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Contact Hours: 26 Cost: $275, financial aid available based on need.

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718

Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com

Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Dr. Jeanne Kloeckner, a practicing occupational therapist for over 38 years and a yoga instructor for 24 years, trained in MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. Dr. Kloeckner is the founder of Mindful Solutions StL.

General description of training:

This is the gold-standard mindfulness course created by Jon-Kabat Zinn. It can serve as an excellent beginner course to learn about mindfulness, establish a regular practice for your own self-care, as well as to incorporate mindfulness into your clinical practice. Backed by neuroscience and ancient compassion-based practices, this highly participatory, evidence-based program combines meditation, mindful movement (gentle yoga), group discussion, and inquiry in a supportive learning environment to teach class participants how to use mindfulness to relate differently to stress. Practicing this powerful, integrative approach tapping into and mobilizing innate inner resources for healing and well-being empowers participants to explore habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, while learning practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life, and, to build and sustain a personal mindfulness practice.

Title of workshop: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) 8-Week Course

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 10/23/19 – 12/18/19, 9 consecutive weeks with one week off for Thanksgiving (11/27)
Time: 7:00-8:00pm

Contact Hours: 8 Cost: $400 - 20% professional discount = $320 (and an additional $50 off if two or more register together)

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718
Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com
Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist and Owner of The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinical psychologist for over 12 years, doing primarily CBT with individuals, families, and groups with depression, anxiety, and related disorders. Dr. Chackes co-developed the MBCT program at Clayton Behavioral in 2013, and has been teaching Mindfulness & MBCT courses consistently since then.

General description of training:

This training will begin with the fundamentals of mindfulness, and thoroughly teach applications of mindfulness for reducing depression, anxiety, and other unwanted mood states. Participants will engage in experiential exercises each week that progress more deeply into the ways that mindfulness helps alleviate symptoms through awareness and acceptance. Participants will learn how to recognize thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to depression and anxiety, and how aversion to these reinforces the disorders. By experiencing the changes that mindfulness can make in yourself, you will then be able to teach it to your clients. Each week you will receive an audio file of a different meditation, as well as several handouts and articles. Participants will be a mixture of counselors and other healthcare professionals, as well as others from the general public who are wanting help managing their depression, anxiety, or stress. While gaining these valuable therapeutic tools, you will also be practicing self-care, which is so vital for those in the helping fields.

Title of program, BFRB Therapist Boot Camp:

Learn to Treat SkinPicking, Hair Pulling, and other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) inthis Self-Paced Online Course.

 Location:  Online  

 Date(s):  Sale starts 11/29/19 and ends12/6/19, butcourse is self-paced so can be done anytime

 Contact Hours: 5          Cost: $149 with Coupon CodeBLACKFRIDAY (and monthly payment plan of $25 a month for 6 months available,see website, https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV, for more details and to register)

Agency:  The Center for Mindfulness & CBT 

Contact Person:  Laura Chackes           Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 701

Fax: 314-561-9050      Email:  Lchackes@mindfulstl.com

 Address: Online

Web Site:  https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV

 Presenter(s)&Credential(s):Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist, Owner, and Clinical Director ofThe Center for Mindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinicalpsychologist for over 13 years, doing primarily CBT with individuals, families,and groups with anxiety, OCD and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs).  Dr. Chackes has presented at the nationalconference for BFRBs for the past 5 years, and has trained many therapists ather center and online to successfully treat BFRBs.

 General description of training:

·        3 pre-recorded videos, 1 released eachweek for 3 weeks, each with 1.5 hours of instruction

·        A private Facebook group just for courseparticipants (moderated by Dr. Chackes) to share with each other in a moreprivate, intimate setting to gain support and stay accountable with coursehomework

·        A private Facebook group for alumni (alsomoderated by Dr. Chackes) after completion of the 3-week program for continuedsupport and accountability

Weekly Course Outline:

Week 1: 

·        Learn effective communication strategiesaround how you talk to children, teens, and adults about their BFRB, as well ashow to instruct parents to communicate with their children with BFRBs.

·        Learn to create effective reward systemsto help incentivize your clients to do the hard work involved, including how toovercome common barriers to receiving rewards.

·        Learn how to instruct your clients tostart a regular mindfulness practice to gain awareness, focus, stressreduction, and management of any emotional contributors to their BFRB.

·        Learn how to teach your clients how tobecome more aware of when they’re doing the BFRB by identifying their specifictriggers, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to orexacerbate their BFRB through tracking.

Week 2:

·        Develop a plan of effective tools specificallydesigned for your client based on how, when, and why they do the behaviors.

·        Learn how to help your clientsconsistently sit with their urges and not act on them for increasingly longerperiods of time.

Week 3:

·        Learn how to help your clients acceptand love themselves even if they are not able (or don’t want to) completelystop the behavior through self-compassion.

·        Help your clients gradually facefeared situations and people so that they are no longer avoiding any of thethings that they want to have in their life.

·        Learn how to help them keep up theirsuccesses over time with a relapse prevention plan.   

Title of workshop, program, or seminar, etc.: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 9/15/19 – 11/10/19, 8 regular 2.5-hour classes, and one 6-hour retreat

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Contact Hours: 26 Cost: $275, financial aid available based on need.

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718

Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com

Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Dr. Jeanne Kloeckner, a practicing occupational therapist for over 38 years and a yoga instructor for 24 years, trained in MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. Dr. Kloeckner is the founder of Mindful Solutions StL.

General description of training:

This is the gold-standard mindfulness course created by Jon-Kabat Zinn. It can serve as an excellent beginner course to learn about mindfulness, establish a regular practice for your own self-care, as well as to incorporate mindfulness into your clinical practice. Backed by neuroscience and ancient compassion-based practices, this highly participatory, evidence-based program combines meditation, mindful movement (gentle yoga), group discussion, and inquiry in a supportive learning environment to teach class participants how to use mindfulness to relate differently to stress. Practicing this powerful, integrative approach tapping into and mobilizing innate inner resources for healing and well-being empowers participants to explore habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, while learning practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life, and, to build and sustain a personal mindfulness practice.

Title of workshop: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) 8-Week Course

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 10/23/19 – 12/18/19, 9 consecutive weeks with one week off for Thanksgiving (11/27)
Time: 7:00-8:00pm

Contact Hours: 8 Cost: $400 - 20% professional discount = $320 (and an additional $50 off if two or more register together)

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718
Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com
Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist and Owner of The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinical psychologist for over 12 years, doing primarily CBT with individuals, families, and groups with depression, anxiety, and related disorders. Dr. Chackes co-developed the MBCT program at Clayton Behavioral in 2013, and has been teaching Mindfulness & MBCT courses consistently since then.

General description of training:

This training will begin with the fundamentals of mindfulness, and thoroughly teach applications of mindfulness for reducing depression, anxiety, and other unwanted mood states. Participants will engage in experiential exercises each week that progress more deeply into the ways that mindfulness helps alleviate symptoms through awareness and acceptance. Participants will learn how to recognize thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to depression and anxiety, and how aversion to these reinforces the disorders. By experiencing the changes that mindfulness can make in yourself, you will then be able to teach it to your clients. Each week you will receive an audio file of a different meditation, as well as several handouts and articles. Participants will be a mixture of counselors and other healthcare professionals, as well as others from the general public who are wanting help managing their depression, anxiety, or stress. While gaining these valuable therapeutic tools, you will also be practicing self-care, which is so vital for those in the helping fields.

Title of program, BFRB Therapist Boot Camp:

Learn to Treat SkinPicking, Hair Pulling, and other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) inthis Self-Paced Online Course.

 Location:  Online  

 Date(s):  Sale starts 11/29/19 and ends12/6/19, butcourse is self-paced so can be done anytime

 Contact Hours: 5          Cost: $149 with Coupon CodeBLACKFRIDAY (and monthly payment plan of $25 a month for 6 months available,see website, https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV, for more details and to register)

Agency:  The Center for Mindfulness & CBT 

Contact Person:  Laura Chackes           Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 701

Fax: 314-561-9050      Email:  Lchackes@mindfulstl.com

 Address: Online

Web Site:  https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV

 Presenter(s)&Credential(s):Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist, Owner, and Clinical Director ofThe Center for Mindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinicalpsychologist for over 13 years, doing primarily CBT with individuals, families,and groups with anxiety, OCD and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs).  Dr. Chackes has presented at the nationalconference for BFRBs for the past 5 years, and has trained many therapists ather center and online to successfully treat BFRBs.

 General description of training:

·        3 pre-recorded videos, 1 released eachweek for 3 weeks, each with 1.5 hours of instruction

·        A private Facebook group just for courseparticipants (moderated by Dr. Chackes) to share with each other in a moreprivate, intimate setting to gain support and stay accountable with coursehomework

·        A private Facebook group for alumni (alsomoderated by Dr. Chackes) after completion of the 3-week program for continuedsupport and accountability

Weekly Course Outline:

Week 1: 

·        Learn effective communication strategiesaround how you talk to children, teens, and adults about their BFRB, as well ashow to instruct parents to communicate with their children with BFRBs.

·        Learn to create effective reward systemsto help incentivize your clients to do the hard work involved, including how toovercome common barriers to receiving rewards.

·        Learn how to instruct your clients tostart a regular mindfulness practice to gain awareness, focus, stressreduction, and management of any emotional contributors to their BFRB.

·        Learn how to teach your clients how tobecome more aware of when they’re doing the BFRB by identifying their specifictriggers, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to orexacerbate their BFRB through tracking.

Week 2:

·        Develop a plan of effective tools specificallydesigned for your client based on how, when, and why they do the behaviors.

·        Learn how to help your clientsconsistently sit with their urges and not act on them for increasingly longerperiods of time.

Week 3:

·        Learn how to help your clients acceptand love themselves even if they are not able (or don’t want to) completelystop the behavior through self-compassion.

·        Help your clients gradually facefeared situations and people so that they are no longer avoiding any of thethings that they want to have in their life.

·        Learn how to help them keep up theirsuccesses over time with a relapse prevention plan.   

Title of workshop, program, or seminar, etc.: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 9/15/19 – 11/10/19, 8 regular 2.5-hour classes, and one 6-hour retreat

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Contact Hours: 26 Cost: $275, financial aid available based on need.

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718

Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com

Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Dr. Jeanne Kloeckner, a practicing occupational therapist for over 38 years and a yoga instructor for 24 years, trained in MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. Dr. Kloeckner is the founder of Mindful Solutions StL.

General description of training:

This is the gold-standard mindfulness course created by Jon-Kabat Zinn. It can serve as an excellent beginner course to learn about mindfulness, establish a regular practice for your own self-care, as well as to incorporate mindfulness into your clinical practice. Backed by neuroscience and ancient compassion-based practices, this highly participatory, evidence-based program combines meditation, mindful movement (gentle yoga), group discussion, and inquiry in a supportive learning environment to teach class participants how to use mindfulness to relate differently to stress. Practicing this powerful, integrative approach tapping into and mobilizing innate inner resources for healing and well-being empowers participants to explore habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, while learning practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life, and, to build and sustain a personal mindfulness practice.

Title of program, BFRB Therapist Boot Camp:

Learn to Treat SkinPicking, Hair Pulling, and other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) inthis Self-Paced Online Course.

 Location:  Online  

 Date(s):  Sale starts 11/29/19 and ends12/6/19, butcourse is self-paced so can be done anytime

 Contact Hours: 5          Cost: $149 with Coupon CodeBLACKFRIDAY (and monthly payment plan of $25 a month for 6 months available,see website, https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV, for more details and to register)

Agency:  The Center for Mindfulness & CBT 

Contact Person:  Laura Chackes           Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 701

Fax: 314-561-9050      Email:  Lchackes@mindfulstl.com

 Address: Online

Web Site:  https://www.mindfulstlonline.com/offers/oWwLjQkV

 Presenter(s)&Credential(s):Laura Chackes, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist, Owner, and Clinical Director ofThe Center for Mindfulness & CBT, has been in practice as a clinicalpsychologist for over 13 years, doing primarily CBT with individuals, families,and groups with anxiety, OCD and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs).  Dr. Chackes has presented at the nationalconference for BFRBs for the past 5 years, and has trained many therapists ather center and online to successfully treat BFRBs.

 General description of training:

·        3 pre-recorded videos, 1 released eachweek for 3 weeks, each with 1.5 hours of instruction

·        A private Facebook group just for courseparticipants (moderated by Dr. Chackes) to share with each other in a moreprivate, intimate setting to gain support and stay accountable with coursehomework

·        A private Facebook group for alumni (alsomoderated by Dr. Chackes) after completion of the 3-week program for continuedsupport and accountability

Weekly Course Outline:

Week 1: 

·        Learn effective communication strategiesaround how you talk to children, teens, and adults about their BFRB, as well ashow to instruct parents to communicate with their children with BFRBs.

·        Learn to create effective reward systemsto help incentivize your clients to do the hard work involved, including how toovercome common barriers to receiving rewards.

·        Learn how to instruct your clients tostart a regular mindfulness practice to gain awareness, focus, stressreduction, and management of any emotional contributors to their BFRB.

·        Learn how to teach your clients how tobecome more aware of when they’re doing the BFRB by identifying their specifictriggers, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that lead to orexacerbate their BFRB through tracking.

Week 2:

·        Develop a plan of effective tools specificallydesigned for your client based on how, when, and why they do the behaviors.

·        Learn how to help your clientsconsistently sit with their urges and not act on them for increasingly longerperiods of time.

Week 3:

·        Learn how to help your clients acceptand love themselves even if they are not able (or don’t want to) completelystop the behavior through self-compassion.

·        Help your clients gradually facefeared situations and people so that they are no longer avoiding any of thethings that they want to have in their life.

·        Learn how to help them keep up theirsuccesses over time with a relapse prevention plan.   

Title of workshop, program, or seminar, etc.: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Location: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT, 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date(s): 9/15/19 – 11/10/19, 8 regular 2.5-hour classes, and one 6-hour retreat

Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Contact Hours: 26 Cost: $275, financial aid available based on need.

Agency: The Center for Mindfulness & CBT

Contact Person: Andrea Harpster Phone: 314-561-9757 ext. 718

Fax: 314-561-9050 Email: Andrea@mindfulstl.com

Address: 10845 Olive Blvd. Ste. 150, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Web Site: www.mindfulstl.com

Presenter(s)&Credential(s): Dr. Jeanne Kloeckner, a practicing occupational therapist for over 38 years and a yoga instructor for 24 years, trained in MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. Dr. Kloeckner is the founder of Mindful Solutions StL.

General description of training:

This is the gold-standard mindfulness course created by Jon-Kabat Zinn. It can serve as an excellent beginner course to learn about mindfulness, establish a regular practice for your own self-care, as well as to incorporate mindfulness into your clinical practice. Backed by neuroscience and ancient compassion-based practices, this highly participatory, evidence-based program combines meditation, mindful movement (gentle yoga), group discussion, and inquiry in a supportive learning environment to teach class participants how to use mindfulness to relate differently to stress. Practicing this powerful, integrative approach tapping into and mobilizing innate inner resources for healing and well-being empowers participants to explore habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, while learning practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life, and, to build and sustain a personal mindfulness practice.