Mindfulness mentor training CONTINUING EDUCATION

Up to 11.25 CE credits for health care providers

The Mindfulness Mentor Training series offers up to 11.25 CE credits (5.25 homestudy credits, and up to 6 live credits) for $100 for psychologists and California-licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please see Continuing Education Provider Information below to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by co-sponsor Mindful CECs. Separate CE certificates will be issued for live and homestudy sessions.

Apply for the training
1. Register for the training, and separately to earn CE credits
2. Review the full training, complete the assessments, and attend the live sessions in full.
3. Earn up to 5.25 home-study CE credits, and up to 6 live study credits.
📚 Homestudy Content - 5.25 Homestudy CE credits

The homestudy part of this training (September 1, 2025 to December 19, 2025) offers up to 5.25 CE credits.

This training supports healthcare professionals in integrating mindfulness-based mentoring into clinical and group settings through a contemplative, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive framework. Drawing on practices such as mindful inquiry, intentional pause, somatic awareness, and attuned relational presence, clinicians learn to navigate emotional complexity, support integration, and foster therapeutic trust. The program emphasizes applying mindfulness principles beyond formal meditation, making them accessible within everyday clinical interactions, particularly in addressing reactivity, spiritual bypass, and adaptive self-care. With a strong focus on equity and ethical engagement, the training offers practical strategies—such as the use of Nonviolent Communication—for skillfully responding to identity-based harm and micro-aggressions, and for creating inclusive, psychologically safe spaces. Rooted in dharmic values of compassion, awareness, and embodied wisdom, this training enhances the clinician’s ability to meet suffering with clarity and care, while supporting resilience, insight, and the delivery of high-quality, client-centered approach.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this program, you will be better able to:
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  • Utilize relational presence and mindful listening to support emotional regulation, reduce shame, and foster psychological safety in clinical and group settings.
  • Utilize the RAIN framework to support clients in somatic self-inquiry and to cultivate compassionate awareness of emotional and cognitive patterns.
  • Utilize mindfulness-based inquiry techniques to support emotional regulation and deepen therapeutic presence in clinical encounters
  • Apply mindfulness-based and trauma-informed practices to address identity-based harm and micro-aggressions in group settings, including the real-time use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to foster inclusive, respectful, and emotionally safe environments for authentic dialogue.
  • Describe how culturally responsive and trauma-informed adaptations in caregiving can enhance therapeutic alliance and engagement for diverse client populations.

The multi-session Q&A series offers healthcare providers practical support in integrating mindfulness-based mentoring into clinical care, enhancing therapeutic presence and relational attunement. Through live discussion and application-focused dialogue, providers will explore strategies for reducing reactivity, fostering emotional integration, and addressing identity-based harm within client interactions and group settings.
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🧑 Live Q&A Sessions - Deepening Practice Through Relational Insight and Applied Integration

This 4-part series offers up to 6 CE credits/contact hours.  Participants will earn 1.5 CE credits/contact hours for each session attended live and in full. Partial credit is prohibited for late arrivals, early departures, or missed sessions. Separate CE certificates will be issued per session.This multi-session Q&A series offers healthcare providers practical support in integrating mindfulness-based mentoring into clinical care, enhancing therapeutic presence and relational attunement. Through live discussion and application-focused dialogue, providers will explore strategies for reducing reactivity, fostering emotional integration, and addressing identity-based harm within client interactions and group settings.

Learning Objectives‍

  • Module 1: Introduction to Mentoring: Cultivating Presence, Compassion, and Emotional Awareness in Relational Practice, with Jack Kornfield - Sep 18, 11am - 12:30pm PT. Learning Objective: At the end of the program, you will be better able to describe how the use of mindful presence and attuned listening in a mentoring or clinical context can enhance psychological safety, support ethical engagement, and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.ety in clinical and group settings.
  • Module 3: Themes and Content: Cultivating Relational Teaching. Learning Objective: Discuss how to adapt theme-based mentoring approaches and clinical care to diverse populations and clinical settings.
  • Module 4: Skillful Responses & Individual Challenges: Attuning to Vulnerability with Wisdom and Care. Learning Objective: Differentiate mentoring and therapeutic roles in clinical practice, and evaluate appropriate boundaries using case-based examples.
  • Module 5: Working with Group Challenges & Controversial Issues: Fostering Safety, Inclusion, and Ethical Responsiveness in Mindfulness-Based Group Facilitation, with Jack Kornfield - Nov 13, 11am - 12:30pm PT. Learning Objective: At the end of the program, you will be better able to apply principles of Nonviolent Communication to skillfully address identity-based harm and micro-aggressions in group settings, fostering inclusive, respectful, and emotionally safe environments for therapeutic dialogue.

More information

How can I register to receive CE credits?

Please contact us by hello@banyantogether.com after you've registered for the training, to let us know that you'd like to register for CE credits.

Please confirm in your email that you'd like us to charge the $100 registration fee to the method of payment you used for the training.

Please complete this registration by August 27th.

What are the requirements for CE credits?

To be eligible for CE credits, participants are required to:

  • Register and pay for CE Credits ($100) by August 27th, 2025;
  • Use the same email address for all parts of the program, to enable automated attendance tracking, including registering for the program, registering for Zoom, and submit your professional information;‍
  • Submit your professional information for the Certificate of Attendance within 1 week of receiving the request link.  The request link will be emailed within 1 week of the end of the program to all CE Credit participants who attended the program in full.

For the home-study portion (5.25 CE credits):‍

  • Review the program in full;‍
  • Complete the assessment with a 75% accuracy.  Participants are permitted to retake the test if 75% accuracy is not achieved;‍

For the live portion (6 CE credits):

  • Attend live, in full: Join the program by Zoom App or web browser, not dialing in by phone, within the first 15 minutes of the start of the program, staying logged in and engaged for the duration of the program. Attendance is tracked automatically and will be verified. 
  • Participants will earn 1.5 CE credits/contact hours for each session attended live and in full. Partial credit is not permitted for late arrivals, early departures, or missed sessions. Separate CE certificates will be issued per session. To ensure your attendance is accurately recorded, please join each Zoom session using the Zoom app or a web browser, and log in with the same email address used to register for the program. Dial-in (phone) participation cannot be tracked and is therefore not eligible for CE credit. Following each session, participants who meet the full attendance requirement will receive an email with a link to submit their professional information. Upon submission, the Certificate of Attendance for that session will be emailed.

Continuing Education Certificates of Attendance will be emailed within 2 weeks of the end of the program to all participants who completed the requirements and submitted their professional information within the stated time frame.

Important Notes:

  • It is the participant’s responsibility to ensure adequate internet reliability and bandwidth. Incomplete attendance nullifies CE Credit eligibility as board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance. 
  • CE Credit participants with incomplete attendance will not be emailed the professional information request link. If a participant does not receive the link within one week of the program, it is the participant’s responsibility to contact Mindful CECs at info@mindfulcecs.com within two weeks of the end of the program if they believe their incomplete attendance record is inaccurate. Continuing Education records are closed two weeks after the program.

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Continuing Education Credit Provider Information

Continuing Education Credit is co-sponsored by Mindful CECs. CE Credit is available for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, Nurses, Chiropractors, and may be applicable for other licenses. Please review the approval and board details below.  It is the responsibility of the participant to determine if their accreditation board will accept the credits offered by the Mindful CECs, Mindful CECs  does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed here. 

American Psychological Association (APA): Mindful CECs is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Mindful CECs maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Contact Mindful CECs at info@mindfulcecs.com for any questions regarding credits offered by APA approved sponsors.

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts Continuing Education Credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association.  LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs from states other than California must check with their state licensing board to verify approval.

The California Board of Registered Nursing: Mindful CECs is a provider approved by the CA BRN, (BRN Provider CEP17985) for licensed nurses in California.

The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners' Code of Regulations 361(h)(2) provides that general continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing education courses by any California Healing Arts Board-approved provider, including those approved by the BRN.  

For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to verify if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Mindful CECs do not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above.

How can I contact you?

If you have more questions, please reach out to us: hello@banyantogether.com.

What is your cancellation policy?

You may request a full refund within 30 days of purchase, provided the course has not started. Once the course is accessed or begun, refunds are not available. Refunds are not applicable for participants with a 100% scholarship, as no payment has been made.

Payment Plans (via Klarna):‍

If you selected a Klarna payment plan, please review Klarna’s refund terms below:

  • Full refunds: Cancel any remaining payments and return the amount already paid, provided the course has not yet started.
  • ‍Partial refunds: Klarna will adjust the remaining balance or return the difference, depending on the refund amount.
    For more information, or to request a refund, please contact our support team at support@banyantogether.com. Refunds will be processed within 7-10 business days.

Banyan cancellations:

Banyan has never canceled a program, but in the unlikely event that we do, all registered participants will be notified by phone and email, and the cancellation notice will be posted on our website. We will issue a refund within 7-10 business days.

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What is your grievances process?

If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education programs, teachers, or processes, the complainant should write to hello@banyantogether.com, as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion. If a grievance cannot be resolved this way, a participant may contact the appropriate professional association directly.

Mindful CECs is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. Mindful CECs will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the CE Program Director in consultation with the members of the continuing education planning committee and the Racial Equity/DEIA Chair. For more information regarding Grievance Policies for Mindful CECs, and contact information to file a grievance, please visit their website: mindfulcecs.com