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PROFESSIONAL MINDFULNESS TEACHER TRAINING
Foundations
of Unified Mindfulness
Take a deep dive into our signature technique by learning how to share mindfulness with others. Become the confident, skilled trainer who creates real transformation.
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Can You Relate?
If any of these resonate with you, you're in the right place.
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WHAT YOU'LL GAIN
Walk Away With Everything You Need
Foundations equips you with the skills, confidence, and community to share See Hear Feel effectively.
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THE SYSTEM
What is Unified Mindfulness?
A system of meditation that's easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
Developed over 50 years by Shinzen Young, U.M. is so precise and dependable, that revered institutions like Harvard Medical School, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Vermont and Vanderbilt use it as the basis for their research on meditation and its effects in the realms of neurosciences, psychology, clinical sciences and the overall well being of society.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others.
It's secular, which means it's not religious—so anyone, of any faith, can practice it. It brings together the key elements of Eastern contemplative traditions with the technological, science-based practicalities of the West.
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A CLOSER LOOK
The Curriculum
32 unique sections designed to make training fun, intuitive, and effective for everyone.
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PERFECT FOR
Foundations is Made for You
Whether you're a professional or passionate enthusiast, this training will transform how you share mindfulness.
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EXPERT ENDORSEMENTS
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What Students Are Saying
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These bonuses alone are worth more than the entire program investment.
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YOUR JOURNEY
The Certification Track
Foundations is step one on the path to becoming a certified UM trainer.
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INVESTMENT
Start Your Transformation
Everything you need to confidently teach See Hear Feel
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Questions?
Frequently Asked
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Help Others, Deepen Your Practice,
Become a Force for Positive Change
Join thousands of mindfulness practitioners who have transformed their ability to share this profound practice with others.
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UM proudly offers 15 CE credits for this training as continuing education sponsor via...
Unified Mindfulness (UM-HUB LLC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Unified Mindfulness (UM-HUB LLC) maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
NBHWC CE Approval number: CE-000164-1 Foundations of Unified Mindfulness C.E.
This course provides a really thorough grounding in the Unified Mindfulness system for both meditators and those wishing to teach.
The syllabus and structure is very good and progressive. You do actually have to put the time in and work which is good. The support outside of the direct course through the Facebook group etc is superb. I highly recommend this course.
Carwyn S.
Excellent Curriculum!
The Foundations program has helped me deepen my practice and has also helped me with instructing mindfulness during my yoga classes. Shinzen's approach to mindfulness meets the needs of just about everyone who wants to learn a little bit or a lot about mindfulness."
Gia M.
Thorough and Practical
I have tried online courses before and have rarely completed them. I finished this one. In terms of helping somebody to learn how to teach this technique, this course is excellent.
In a systematic way, the course moves step-by-step through the process of leading a group, instructing and giving a detailed handout on teaching a full See, Hear, Feel session, tips for how to answer common questions, tips for how to make the course the most engaging for students by using their own experiences to introduce concepts and such.
The course then leads us through how to instruct a student in a one-on-one setting giving a map for that session as well as how to make the most of it for the student.
Well designed, thoroughly structured and well executed...
This wonderful course covers mindfulness and meditation thoroughly and engagingly. The lessons cover material in right-sized increments. It's thorough without delivering too-large chunks at a time.
The combination of being able to observe Julianna's in-class instruction with her comments and observations on the class experience provide a great balance in perspective while adding variety in pacing for the learner. Julianna is so obviously empathetic and caring that she's a first-rate role model for would-be instructors. Really an excellent course all around.
Nicholas R.
A well-rounded introduction to teaching meditation.
Full of good advice and a healthy variety of scenarios and types of students, this course lays a solid *foundation* for any beginning teacher.
Cory W.
I have been a student of Shinzen Young since 1986 and considered myself rather well grounded in the techniques and quite able to talk about them.
However, after taking the Unified Mindfulness Foundations Training Course I was able to explain the concepts and the techniques immensely better. Three of the hardest things to achieve in online training are simplicity, clarity and brevity. The Unified Mindfulness Foundations Training Course achieves all three.
Rob R.
First of all I want to thank you for this great course.
I found it very clear and well structured. I can see how much work and effort there must have been involved to set up this training.
Thank you. It helped me a lot in gaining more clarity about the method and being able to integrate into my psychotherapeutic practice.
I am looking forward to the next level of teacher training. Best wishes from Germany!
Natalie K.
Great intro to teaching UM to others!
Thank you for the thoughtfulness put into this online learning program. It was the right amount of info without being overwhelmed. Truly enjoyed the self-paced aspect, videos mixed with quizzes, mixed with journaling answers is a great way to engage adult pedagogy.
I really enjoyed it and am eager to start helping my friends and family (or strangers, whomever), learn how to do this and have the confidence that I have a good place to start.
Samantha D.
Concepts When Students Need Them
I’m overall enjoying this course particularly how Julianna analyses her teaching. As a filmmaker I have worked on several wildlife documentary series, where the expert points out fine points of animal behaviours. “Watch closely as the mother Canada Goose demonstrates how her babies need to flap their wings and almost run across the top of the water to gain flight. Sometimes a little push with her beak is all that is needed for a first flight to ensue.”
Julianna is always keenly offering observations around student behaviours and suggestions that will often work at only the right moment. She is a very good teacher and although her expertise after years of teaching oozes out of her pores it is the excitement and joy of a teachable moment that has spoken most to me. She is so often fresh and in the moment, traits that are a pleasure for me to model in my own coaching practice.
Bryon P.
Foundations was such an amazing course...
which helped me to further develop my skills as someone who introduces mindfulness to others. I found the See, Hear, Feel practice to be a clear way to learn and teach mindfulness. This is the first time I have been taught so thoroughly to both learn the practice of choiceless awareness and teach it to others.
I can't express enough how this has changed my practice and provided such a great framework for choiceless awareness. The Ten Tasks helps to understand and gain further awareness on how to teach others the skill of mindfulness.
I found the three skills of mindfulness as defined by the UM System Concentration Power, Sensory Clarity and Equanimity to be so clear and a wonderful way to teach others. Thanks Unified Mindfulness for such a rich learning experience.
Tyler V.
I have recently gone through the entire Unified Mindfulness Foundations course for teaching See-Hear-Feel and can say without hesitation that it is excellent. I really like the content, pedagogy, layout, production and love Julianna as a teacher.
If you are interested in learning to teach See-Hear-Feel in a "note everything" style, if you want to deepen your understanding and practice in this area, or if you are a current facilitator who wants to review and fine tune how you can teach this, I highly recommend this Foundations course.
Kundalini yoga teacher and senior trainer of Unified Mindfulness
I had quite an interesting experience over the weekend at the march in Washington. As background, I do not like crowds and at under 5" I can get quite claustrophobic. I knew going in that this could be a challenge, so I decided to use it as an opportunity to practice.
At one point my little group got completely stopped, unable to move in any direction at all. There was no body space between us. As they say, we were packed in "like sardines."
People were talking about the real risk of trampling and there was nothing we could do. There were people in the trees lining Independence Ave and they could see no way out because the streets were still barricaded from the inauguration. We were there, stuck, for nearly two hours until work crews could open up routes to the Mall.
At one point a woman beside me became quite anxious and I asked her if she would allow me to help. She agreed. I decided to choose "see" since that seemed most available. We started up close, and I asked "what do you see?" Together we focused on jewelry, as specific colors (pink!), signs, buildings, trees. She calmed down and that brought everybody's anxiety down too.
I also shared the technique of imagining a smile (Thich Nhat Hanh calls this "smile yoga) with my girlfriends, and it truly brought us peace so that we could focus on the love, unity, and incredibly powerful experience we were part of.
I doubt I would have had the courage to offer assistance had I not been engaged with this course, even though I've been meditating for a while. It was the See-Hear-Feel technique that gave me the tools I needed. Thank you!!
Sarah A.
I want to take a moment to share joy and gratitude...
Since completing the UM Foundations training, I have:
1) Established and am co-leading a monthly secular silent retreat in collaboration with a local sangha leader
2) Led two UM workshops based on Foundations training
3) Had two Muslim students attend workshops, one of whom was the first to come up to me afterwards and say, “When can I do this again?”
4) Led my first mindfulness workshop at Kansas City Kansas Community College (photo below). Everyone had the choice of a chair or sitting/lying down on a mat during guided meditations; impressively, only one student fell asleep.
5) Collaborated with a naturopathic physician on faculty at the community college to co-leading a workshop called “Mindful Nutrition for the Busy College Student” next month.
6) Been invited to present to patients at the multiple sclerosis support center at the University of Kansas Medical Center next month.
I feel so grateful to be sharing mindfulness with so many amazing people.
The overwhelmingly positive response I’ve experienced across such diverse groups is a true testament to the accessibility and power of the UM approach.
Also, I just want to say that these experiences are a direct result of my embarking on the UM Foundations training and being part of this support group. I'm so grateful to everyone who has shared ideas, insights, advice, and their own personal experiences.
Thank you all for being part of my journey.
Nicoya H.
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