Course Sequence

    1. Healing Education through Mindful Leadership - 7 minutes

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    2. Use the Thinkific Mobile App to access your course on the go

    3. Taking Stock: Pre-assessment surveys

    4. What is Mindfulness? - 28 minutes

    1. Live Session Recording: The Power of Attention: Working Skillfully with Anxiety and Fear in an Era of Uncertainty

    2. Printable Workbook and Daily Practice

    3. Intro Mindfulness Practice

    4. Practice: Appreciative Body Scan (Lying Down) - 20 minutes

    5. Practice: Gentle Standing Mindful Movement -15 minutes

    6. Practice: Press Pause - 3 minutes

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    1. Grounding and Resourcing in Moments of Distress - 11 minutes

    2. Module 2 Workbook

    3. Live Session Recording: Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Crisis Response

    4. Practice: Awareness of Breath - 9 minutes

    5. Practice: Seeing - 5 minutes

    6. Practice: Object Meditation - 5 minutes

    7. Module 2 Wrap-Up: Welcoming Yourself Home

    1. Intro to Module 3 - 13 minutes

    2. Relating to Difficulty, Challenges, and Chronic Pain

    3. Practice: Awareness of Difficult Physical Sensations

    4. The Neurobiology of Threat - 12 minutes

    5. Understanding Negativity Bias

    6. Neuroplasticity

    7. Live session recording: Our Nervous Systems are Contagious (Boundaries, Burnout, and Tending to Emotional Exhaustion)

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    8. Exercise: Awareness of Pleasant Events

    9. Daily Practice following Module 3

    1. Resourcing and Co-Creating Safety in Systems

    2. Practice: Standing Body Scan and Movement - 5/20 minutes

    3. Practice: Grounding Your Feet and Mindful Walking - 5/15/20 minutes

    4. Preparing for Self-Compassion Practice

    5. Practice: Loving Kindness for Ourselves - 10 minutes

    6. Practice: Soften, Soothe, Allow - 15 minutes

    7. Break Free from Over-Giving: Boundaries as an Act of Compassionate Leadership

    8. Exercise: Appreciative Inquiry

    1. Intro Mindfulness Practice

    2. Practice: Awareness of Breath - 9 minutes

    3. Practice: Mindfulness of Sound - 5 minutes

    4. Practice: Seeing - 5 minutes

    5. Practice: Object Meditation - 5 minutes

    6. Practice: Appreciative Body Scan (Lying Down) - 20 minutes

    7. Practice: Gentle Standing Mindful Movement -15 minutes

    8. Practice: Mindfulness of Sensations in the Body - 9 minutes

    9. Practice: Standing Body Scan and Movement - 5/20 minutes

    10. Practice: Loving Kindness for Ourselves - 10 minutes

    11. Practice: Soften, Soothe, Allow - 15 minutes

    12. Practice: S.T.O.P. Overattending to Traumatic Stimuli

    13. Jump-Start Your Mindfulness Practice: Printable Posters

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    14. Exercise: Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire for Educators

About this course

  • $399.00
  • 15 Professional Learning Hours

Meet your Guide:

Certified Mindfulness Instructor, DBH, CMT-P, MFA Dr. Cynthia Garner

Dr. Cynthia Garner is a nationally recognized expert in mindfulness-based leadership and systemic wellbeing. With a background in education, counseling, and somatic psychology, she brings over fifteen years of experience supporting leaders in trauma-impacted systems. A former classroom teacher and school consultant, Dr. Garner holds a Doctorate in Body-Mind Healing from the Parkmore Institute and professional certifications in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Mindful Schools programs. She has completed advanced training in somatic psychotherapy and mindfulness facilitation through Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme). Dr. Garner designs and facilitates professional development programs that integrate mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and trauma-sensitive leadership. Her work emphasizes the principle that a regulated leader’s nervous system is the foundation of collective healing and sustainable organizational change.

Bonus material

Include additional content to your course curriculum to provide further value to your students.

  • Guided Meditations

    Anchor your leadership with daily mindfulness meditation. A growing library of trauma-sensitive practices, ranging from 3-30 minutes, is available to support you at any time of day or night.

  • Recorded Sessions

    Learn practical skills to respond to real-world challenges. These hour-long live sessions cover topics such as managing anxiety, burnout recovery, navigating toxic relational dynamics, and working skillfully with anger.

  • Discussion Forum

    Connect with other educators and leaders in a nonjudgmental space. Reflection is a critical component of mindful leadership and we can learn so much from each other when we can make it safe to be vulnerable.

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