Programs

For Building Resilience and Trauma Recovery

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Foundations

  • An evidence-based and trauma-informed approach.

  • Highly trained and experienced mental health trauma specialist clinicians and instructors.

  • Offering a synthesis of contemporary psychology with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that draws on research advances in the neuroscience and neurobiology of stress injury and trauma prevention.

  • Designed specifically for frontline workers, educators, medical workers, first responders, healthcare service providers, and non-profit and corporate organizations.

  • We offer a safe, confidential, supportive, and compassionate learning environment.

The LifeBreath Institute Difference

You will learn…

  • To integrate evidence-based mind-body techniques into everyday life and develop a practice of self-care that includes meditation, yoga nidra, writing reflection, movement practices, breathing and body attunement skills, aligned self-talk, and autonomic nervous system awareness.

  • The latest scientific evidence for these techniques and how they build resilience by positively changing our physiology and psychology.

  • The ancient Eastern philosophy behind these techniques and how they build mind, body, and spirit resilience by positively changing our physiology and psychology.

  • Experience multiple avenues for self-expression including journal reflection and supported sharing, while also learning to engage these creative approaches with others.

  • The LifeBreath Institute’s pioneering Mind-Body Drills and Skills Group Model.

  • Tools to help you bring clear vision, effective practice, and greater joy to your life and work.

  • Resources to prevent and heal from a psychological stress injury.

  • How to mobilize aligned self-narratives and eliminate harmful self-talk.

Program goals…

  • Reduce psychological distress, including decreases in anxiety and depression.

  • Defuse Thought Bombs.

  • Reduce sadness, chronic pain, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

  • Increase emotional regulation.

  • Increase psychological preparedness (anticipation, awareness, and management) for critical incidents and natural disasters.

  • Increase work performance and satisfaction.

  • Enhance cognitive abilities.

  • Increase self-esteem, confidence, and joy.

  • Increase attention and clarity of mind.

  • Enhance sleep quality, pattern consistency, and overall health.

  • Decrease inflammation by strengthening immunological functioning.

  • Competently navigate negative self-talk and inner critic.

  • Dynamically increase life navigation skills.

  • Become part of a worldwide community of healers learning together.

Drills & Skills

For Frontline and First Responders

LifeBreath Drills & Skills for Frontline and First Responders offers a comprehensive, evidence-based, mind-body complementary medicine program for those at risk of accumulated stress, moral injury or PTSD due to the high-stress, high-stakes nature of their work environment.

This training provides education, tools, and experiential activities to build individual and group mind, body, and spirit resilience.

Who is it for?

  • First responders, disaster relief, refugee services, journalists, military veterans, leadership, managers, faculty, and staff.

  • Frontline leadership, managers, and staff in medical, alternative medicine, mental health, education, and caregiver settings.

  • Leadership, faculty, and staff working in corporate and nonprofit settings. 

LEADERSHIP

Build a Resilient Organization

This program offers comprehensive mental health resilience training that supports management, leadership and staff in developing strategies, policies, protocols, and practices essential to building a resilient organization.

Who is it for?

  • Leadership and faculty working in corporate and nonprofit settings. 

  • Line managers and faculty working in medical, mental health, education, and caregiver settings.

  • First responders, military veterans, leadership, line managers, and faculty.

Clear the Path

Resources for the Sacred Self

Clear the Path is a comprehensive program that provides education, tools, and experiential activities to build individual and group mind, body, and spirit resilience.

Who is it for?

  • Medical Professionals

  • Mental Health Services Professionals

  • Military and Veterans

  • First Responders

  • Health and Wellness Counselors

  • Life Coaches

  • Clergy and Spiritual Leaders

  • Administrators of Human Service Organizations.

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Medical Providers, Doulas, Midwives

and postpartum care

This program offers a trauma-informed, evidence-based training that incorporates Yoga Nidra, breath practice, cognitive skills, writing reflection, and self-care Action Plans designed to build individual and group mind, body, and spirit resilience for postpartum mothers and, to prevent provider burnout.

Who is this program for?

  • Medical Providers

  • Postpartum Mothers

  • Midwives and Doulas

  • All Care Providers

Testimonials

  • This course has revealed ways in which I can become more skilled in my relationship with myself and others and ways to support my connectedness to my children and partner. I envision this course changing my life for the better. I am forever grateful.

    - LifeBreath Three-Day Immersion participant, Chicago

  • The LifeBreath Training was excellent and brought to mind for me this quote: When a student is ready the teacher shall appear. Thank you, Lillian!

    LifeBreath Three-Day Immersion participant, Chicago

  • I loved every aspect of this program, the depth of the lectures, felt experiences of Yoga Nidra Meditation practice, yoga practice, and setting - all aspects of the training. Thank you!

    LifeBreath Three-Day Immersion Participant, Vermont

  • A beautiful, meaningful workshop. I loved the warmth & genuineness of the presenter - fantastic!

    LifeBreath Three-Day Immersion , Vermont

Frequently Asked Questions

  • LifeBreath Institute mind-body skills and drills practices focus on intervention strategies that are scientifically proven to promote health, such as meditation, yoga, yoga nidra, breath practice, body sensing, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral therapies, Eastern philosophy, group support, journaling, autogenic training, and spirituality.

    The mind-body medicine field views illness as an opportunity for personal growth and transformation, and health care providers as catalysts and guides in this process.

    Mind-body medicine approaches are based on the scientific understanding of the inextricable connection among our thoughts, sensations, and feelings, and our mind, body, and spirit – between ourselves and the social and natural world in which we live.

    Mind-body medicine focuses on the interactions between mind and body; and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, and spiritual factors can directly relieve stress and improve health. It is used with individuals, groups, and entire populations.

  • Mind-body approaches use the conscious mind to directly affect the workings of the brain and the rest of the body. The techniques affect the hypothalamus, the switching station in the brain, which exercises control over the autonomic nervous system (which controls heart rate, blood pressure etc.), the endocrine (glandular) system and the immune system. The scientific literature on these approaches is now rich and robust.

    Studies dating from the late 1960s have shown the power of mind-body techniques to balance the over-activity of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (“the fight or flight” and “stress” responses), which is implicated in many physical and emotional diseases and conditions, with parasympathetic nervous system stimulation that promotes relaxation.

    More recently, these techniques have been demonstrated to create beneficial changes in many of the body’s physiological responses (including blood pressure, stress hormone levels, pain response and immune functioning) and to make a significant clinical difference in conditions as diverse as hypertension, HIV, cancer, chronic pain, and insomnia as well as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • CONTINUING EDUCATION (CEUS) ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS

    LifeBreath Institute 3-Day Resilience Immersion program:

    LifeBreath©  Yoga and Meditation Immersion Training for  Mental Health Professionals did previously receive the following continuing education accreditations: 15.5 CEUs.

    CEU Accreditation Statements are below:

    National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) Berkshire AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5585.

    National Association of Social Workers (NASW MA Chapter) This program has been approved for 15.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program, Authorization Number D 81367-2.

    Psychology - Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC), which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

    Your governing board will decide whether to consider recognition of previously awarded CEUs.

    For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact LifeBreath Institute.

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    LifeBreath Institute was also awarded a Federal Government US Commercial and Government Entity Vendor Code: CAGE Code: 8JNNO.