It’s a high-stress life for teens today. The demands of friends and social life, school, work and family can easily become overwhelming for adolescents. On top of that, technology and social media are creating new opportunities for stress that are pushing teens to their breaking point.

Many teens are simply not equipped with the healthy coping mechanisms they need to effectively manage this stress, leaving them irritable, angry, in pain and out of control. Without healthy interventions, their young lives may be negatively impacted by anxiety, depression, or self-harm — and could even lead to suicide.

Luckily, the explosion of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program has revealed an increasing number of physical and mental health benefits from mindfulness practices — benefits and results that can be life-changing for teens…

Join Gina Biegel, creator of MBSR-T, and earn your certificate in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens. In this 10-week online course, you will learn how to implement Gina's systematic protocol in your practice, schools and community to teach teens mindfulness skills and powerful tools for coping with stress. This comprehensive course will give you the strategies you need to help transform the lives of the teens you work with.

Certificate Program in
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T)
A Proven Approach for Teens to Learn Mindfulness and Create Lasting Change

Valued at $800.00 — Today Only $499.99

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EARN UP TO 29 CE HOURS — Included in the price!

 

Teach teens to live rather than just exist...
Give teens the positive coping skills necessary to manage life's problems.

For over a decade, clinicians around the world have been using the evidence-based MBSR-T program to improve the quality of life for teens and adolescents. In this comprehensive 10-week online certificate course, Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, will provide in-depth training on her MBSR-T program.

Tailored specifically to meet the developmental needs of adolescents, the MBSR-T approach uses language, references and stories relevant to adolescents — to help teens shift their perspective and become more aware of their intentions, attention and attitude.

Gina will guide you step-by-step through her 8-session systematic approach, fully preparing and certifying you to facilitate the MBSR-T program with your clients and students in clinics, schools and the community.

 

Here's a weekly schedule of course topics:

 

Week 1: Introduction to the MBSR-T Program
In week 1 you will learn about the development and foundation of the Stressed Teens program. We will cover concepts of positive neuroplasticity and its connection to the practice of mindfulness.

Week 2: Foundations of Stress & Mindfulness
This week we'll examine the research behind MBSR-T, as well as its history and foundational principles. You'll also define and explore the foundations of stress and its implications for teens.

Week 3: MBSR-T Session 1
Week 3 is when we begin learning the specifics of the 8-session MBSR-T approach. In this session you'll learn how to help your teen clients learn about stress, their intentions and goal setting. Discover specific methods to introduce mindfulness to your clients, as well as how to guide them in developing a personal mindfulness practice to overcome barriers to success. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Life Stressors: What is Stressing You Out
     • Mindfulness and the Five Senses
     • Mindful Eating – Taking a Mindful Bite

Week 4: MBSR-T Session 2
This week you will learn how to conduct session 2 of the Stressed Teens program, which teaches clients about the physical and emotional effects of stress they may be experiencing. We’ll focus on developing the correct setting and timing for mindfulness practices both in and out of sessions, as well as how to maintain flexibility in your program. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Paying Attention to Red Flags – Fight, Flight or Freeze Response
     • Body-Mind Connection
     • Stress Helpful/Harmful Curve
     • Body Scan Mindfulness Practice and Debrief

Week 5: MBSR-T Session 3
In session 3 of the MBSR-T program you'll learn how to guide your teen clients in further developing and strengthening their personal mindfulness practice by bringing mindfulness and awareness to routine tasks and interests in their everyday lives. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Accepting Your Emotions: The Guest House Poem
     • Living the Now – Present Moment Awareness
     • Stress Waves: Riding the Waves of Live
     • Grounding Anchors: Drop your Anchor
     • Railroad Activity: Train of Thoughts
     *Bonus Practice Session: Conducting the Body Scan*

Week 6: MBSR-T Session 4
This session focuses on how to cultivate an attitude of self-care and positivity with your teen clients by facilitating an awareness of positive experiences and pleasant moments that occur day-to-day. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Mindful Walking and Movement Practice
     • Pleasant Moments Calendar
     • Heartfulness Mindfulness Practice
     • Taking in the Good: Doing What You Enjoy

Week 7: MBSR-T Session 5
This week you will learn to conduct session 5 of the Stressed Teens program to teach your clients to notice and work through their thoughts and experiences — positive AND negative — and respond instead of react. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Notice, Being and Working on Thoughts and Judgments
     • Unpleasant Moments Calendar
     • Mindful Stopping: Responding Instead of Reacting
     • Playing Out the End of the Movie

Week 8: MBSR-T Session 6
In session 6 of the program, you'll learn how to teach your teen clients to utilize positive coping strategies and behaviors to manage life's stressors and difficult situations at home, school, and online. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Homework and Test-Taking Mindfulness Practice
     • Self-Awareness Calendar
     • Self-Harm Awareness Journal
     • Sitting Mindfulness Practice
     *Bonus Practice Session: Sitting Mindfulness Practice*

Week 9: MBSR-T Session 7
In week 9, you will learn how to conduct session 7 of the MBSR-T program, which focuses on helping teens cultivate mindful resilience and build healthy relationships through the practice of mindfulness. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Daily Gratitude Practice
     • Things You Can’t Change and Letting Go Practice
     • Courage to Change Practice
     • Trust Exercise: Mindfulness in Relationships
     • Mindful Messaging and Posting

Week 10: MBSR-T Session 8
In the final week, you'll review the MBSR-T program and assess the mindfulness-based solutions that have been presented with your clients. Uncover strategies to help your clients make mindfulness a continued part of their daily living. Key teen-specific interventions include:
     • Current Status Assessment — Goals and Intentionality
     • Problems and Mindful Solutions Chart
     • Mindful Practice Reminders
     • Letter to Self
     • Processing Possible Grief and Loss

Here's what teens who've taken the Stressed Teen's program have to say:

My self-esteem has grown and I no longer beat myself down as much. I think more realistically and catch my mind when it wanders, especially in negative thoughts. I’m a lot more patient with people and put myself in their shoes. I’ve realized that I can accomplish anything.

I learned how to deal with my stress differently, which helped me stop cutting. I know it was my choice to stop, but this class gave me tools to deal with stress instead of cutting.

This class was amazing. The subjects we talked about in this class made me feel as if a bus had hit me, allowing me to look at things in a totally different way. It allowed me to let go, think positive, and let me be free and comfortable with my disability. I can only see myself succeeding from this point.

I am a better thinker, a better friend, a better learner, and have allowed myself to care about the careless. I believe this class helped me to grow and that the different exercises I learned here will be with me for the rest of my life.

Valued at $800.00 — Today Only $499.99

Earn up to 29 CE HOURS — Included in the price!
 

Here's what your colleagues have to say about this training:

This 10-week program was a wonderful journey in the Mindfulness path. Gina shared with us her tremendous knowledge and expertise with teens. I really loved this course, which is based on MBSR, but truly adapted for teens. Learning from the community was a great asset too. I really recommend this course for any person who would like to bring mindfulness to youth. Thank you Gina, for sharing with us! Warmly, Christine  - Christine D., US and France

I found Gina Biegel’s Stressed Teens MBSR-T program to be a comprehensive and in-depth training that has fully prepared me to incorporate Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction into my individual and group work with teens in the school and outpatient setting. Her teaching style is authentic and engaging, allowing the online learning platform to have the feel and efficacy of being in a traditional classroom. Stressed Teens has proven to be an incredible resource for my professional learning and personal mindfulness practice. Thank you, Gina! ”   - Gabby B., Franklin, Massachusetts

I’ve taken several online Mindfulness trainings and Gina Biegel’s Stressed Teens training is really outstanding! The program is clear and well structured. The webpage and resources are phenomenal. Gina is a clear, kind, empathetic and caring instructor with years of experience, not only in teaching adolescents and instructors, but also as a researcher and writer, and she brings all this knowledge and experience to every class. Gina gives all the support, tips, resources and instruction required to succeed in bringing mindfulness to teens. I fully recommend Gina’s Stressed Teens online program. - Amira V., Mexico City, Mexico

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Here's everything included in the 10-week online course: