April 21, 2023 - Friday

Spring Day Retreat Workshop

Clinical Applications of Mindfulness, Love and Loving-Kindness

“Course meets the qualifications for 6 CE Hours for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs

as required by the California Board of Behavioral Science.”

In- person, a day of mindfulness, silence and peace!

includes Working Silent Lunch - at Serra Retreat Center in Malibu, CA

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NOTE: This Retreat usually fills up - register early - especially if you will be attending with anyone!  

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Jerome Front, LMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

(Provider #15848) to sponsor Continuing Education for CA LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs.

Jerome Front, LMFT maintains responsibility for this course and its content.

Pre-licensed members may earn hours of experience for attending this workshop as approved by their supervisors.   

CE Certificates provided onsite.   CAMFT CEPA#: 015848   -  LMFT#:  MFC30359.

 

Course meets the qualifications for 6 CE Hours for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Science.  This course is suitable for all BBS Licenses who will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end in exchange for a completed evaluation form.  Physicians, Psychologists, Nurses, Clergy and Teachers often attend but are 

Not eligible for CMEs and will Not be issued a Certificate of Completion.

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course emphasizes the How Mindfulness and Mindful Contemplative Practices cultivates Love, Loving-Kindness, and Compassion in Clinical Practice.

The workshop will involve periods of Didactic, Immersive/Experiential, and Group Learning. Content will include: 3 key aspects to mindfulness in kind communication, 2 specific ways mindfulness is foundational for Loving-Kindness, and ways that mindfulness experientially identifies qualities of Love.  Using instruction and embodied practice, participants will also identify, practice, and be able to clinically integrate Mindfulness

for cultivating Love, Loving-Kindness, and Compassion that can be used clinically with their clients.

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Clinical CE Objectives: Participants will be able to:  

1) Identify 3 Facets of Mindful Awareness in Kind Communication.

2) Describe 2 Ways Mindful Awareness is Foundational in Loving Relationships. 

3) Distinguish the Difference Between “Someone Understanding” Vs. “Feeling Understood.”

4) Describe 3 Experiential Qualities of Love and Loving-Kindness in Relationships.

5) Integrate 2 Loving Kindness Meditations for Clinically Reducing Negative Emotions.

6) Describe how Mindful Sensory Meditations Cultivate Compassion.

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Location: Serra Retreat Conference Center, Serra Rd, Malibu, CA 90265

Cost: $159 per person, Payable By Zelle, or by Check to: “Jerome Front, MA, LMFT,  Suite #2A, 12456 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604.”

 

COST: (includes working lunch, dinner, and full-day workshop)  

NOTE: This Retreat usually fills up - register early - especially if you will be attending with anyone!

> only $159.00! Early Discount for One person BEFORE APRIL 13th Deadline. 

> $189.00 each, Regular Fee, After APRIL 13th Deadline.

 

REFUNDS: No Refunds or transfers -for any reason- after APRIL 13th Deadline. Refunds prior to APRIL 13th are minus a 10% cancellation fee.

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Instructor: Jerome Front, LMFT, is a year-round Adjunct Faculty member at Pepperdine University in the Graduate School of Education & Clinical Psychology since 1999.  In the year 2000, he created the first full graduate Course called "Mindfulness & Psychotherapy" towards Degree credit. 

Few of the recent places Jerome has been invited to lead Mindfulness Trainings include:

·         USC Graduate School of Social Work 

·         UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

·         CA Association of Marriage & Family Therapists

·         American Association of Pediatrics, So. Cal.

·         National Symposium on Palliative Care 

His past workshops around the country include conferences in Michigan, Washington, DC, and South Carolina, and he wrote the cover story on Relational and Clinical Mindfulness for helping professionals for Psychotherapy Networker. Jerome has had a mindfulness practice since 1987, and has trained in MBSR on three 8-day in-person Group Clinical Trainings with Jon Kabat-Zinn & Saki Santorelli.  Jerome teaches two weekly meditation classes since 2000, and has a therapy private-practice in Studio City for 30 years.  More Information: www.JeromeFront.com

 

Savor the retreat center's ocean vistas during this informative and soulful day of mindfulness and silence. This experiential training in mindfulness and meditation, taught in down-to-earth language, includes a delicious, working silent-lunch meditation!

This day is for being mindful, and actively learning mindfulness by experiencing it. This Retreat will help you understand the benefits of embodied mindfulness in your life, work and relationships. No prior meditation experience is necessary.

 

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FUTURE WORKSHOPS - BELOW WORKSHOPS NOT YET SCHEDULED

**MINDFUL RELATIONSHIP WORKSHOP:

Improving Intimacy & Understanding by Weaving Together Heart & Mind

Jerome Front, LMFT Facilitator 

 

Includes Step-By-Step Techniques You will be able to apply immediately to improve your work with couples as well as your own relationships! So much has been written about improving relationships that is easy to get lost in it all. This workshop presents the latest relationship research and mind-body innovations that can bring healing into the heart of relationships. The focus is on a deep systems perspective that weaves together the elements of mind, body, emotions and spirit. Topics: Meditative Awareness in Reducing Emotional Reactivity; "What went wrong? and "What works"; Deepening "Expressive" & "Receptive" Skills; Relationship as "Deep Practice" & More. Methods: Experiential Practicing, Role-Plays, Lecture / Conceptualizing & Discussion. This also a Public Workshop - Individuals welcome as well. 

 

Participants will be able to:

1)    Define three Basic Facets of Mindfulness;

2)   Identify at least three elements involved in self-regulation;

3)   Identify ways that Mindfulness Informs step-by-step work in couple's communication;

4)   Apply Meditative and Contemplative Perspectives to build aspects of love and loving-kindness in relationships.

5)   Recognize and Explore how a therapist’s embodied mindfulness practice and cultivating it experientially promotes an ethical and clinical foundation for competency with mindfulness.

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Presenter Bio: Jerome Front, MFT (Click About Us) 

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(4 CE Hours for LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, LEP & CA BBS Interns)

 

MINDFULNESS & GRIEF**  Date: TBA 

Using Grief and Sadness to Deepen Purpose and Well-being" 

 

Presenter: Jerome J. Front, LMFT 

There are so many types of losses in the human experience -- death, separation from family and friends, divorce, broken dreams and failing health, as well as those losses that are known only in the privacy of your heart. This workshop will focus on these often painful but powerfully transformative periods of life. Held in mindful awareness and acceptance, aspects of loss can yield gifts of growth and deep healing. Methods: By exploring personal grief you'll learn to identify and use the often hidden, positive aspects within grief, loss and sadness to deepen your emotional and spiritual development in daily life. Experiential exercises, guided meditations, metaphor and art-process will also be used. ** 

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(4 CE Hours for LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, LEP & CA BBS Interns)

 

“MINDFULNESS, PSYCHOTHERAPY & The CONTEMPLATIVE PATH”**

 

Presenter: Jerome J. Front, LMFT 

The use of Contemplative Processes, such as Mindfulness Meditation, Skillful Silence Revolutionizes the training of therapists.  This workshop weaves together nearly 30 years of meditative, clinical and innovative experiential activities that have helped thousands of therapists cultivate essential relational qualities.  

 

Essential clinical qualities include: personal presence, skill with silence, deep listening, tracking, attunement, empathy, self-other awareness, and much more!  Other topics include:  Living the healing relationship as "Deep Practice";   How therapy becomes a contemplative path for therapists and a way to practice moment-to-moment relational mindfulness.   Methods include periods of silent guided meditations to processing and discussion, sensory meditations and readings. 

 

Our work will also include reviewing some of the recent, exciting developments in neuroscience that both deepens our understanding about the mindful revolution and helps illuminate why meditative and contemplative practices have always worked.  In an era when mindfulness has become one of the major "trends" in psychotherapy, this seminar covers the relevant facets of mindfulness and the basics of what you need to know to provide the most effective and ethical clinical services involving mindfulness.  

 

This workshop will teach you the basics of having your meditative practice and will emphasize the value for therapists themselves to cultivate their own mindfulness meditation practice. Think on these:  Would you take music lessons from a teacher who hasn't played a musical instrument?  And, if you were teaching mindfulness clinically, would your own regular practice increase your understanding and skill?

 

If you like to learn by doing and are tired of hearing about mindfulness in crowded conference rooms, this workshop is for you!

 

CE Participants will be able to:

-  Describe the basics to begin or deepen their own regular mindfulness practice as Training.

-  Identify the application for Experiential Practice of several mindfulness meditations, including some components of the University of Massachusetts Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR)

- List and Integrate Mindfulness-based Interventions that cultivates relational / communication qualities such as listening, empathy, presence, and attunement that can be applied to diverse populations and relationships.

-Identify at least three facets of mindfulness that are foundational for mindfulness-related interventions.

-Describe how having their own regular mindfulness practice provides the basis for both an Ethical and Competent use of mindfulness-related interventions.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM APPROVAL 

AND CE NOTES FOR ALL COURSES

 

Jerome Front, LMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

(Provider #15848) to sponsor Continuing Education for CA LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs.

Jerome Front, LMFT maintains responsibility for this course and its content.

Pre-licensed members may earn hours of experience for attending this workshop as approved by their supervisors.   

CE  Certificates provided onsite.

CAMFT CEPA#: 015848   -  LMFT#:  MFC30359.

 

Click here for our Policies & Procedures

 

**Each specific CE Course will designate exact amount of CE hours .  

**Each specific CE Course (Workshop, Class or Retreat) will also list 

its specific Clinical CE Objectives.

 

 

For complete information on any course  please email or call Jerome Front, LMFT:  818-760-7725. 

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Click here for our Complete  Policies & Procedures including information on Disability Accommodations, Special Needs, Grievances, Etc

 

 

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