What this Newsletter Covers:

• What's New at The Center for Mindful Body Awareness
• Upcoming Trainings
• Upcoming Webinars
• MABT-related News and Events

Dear Friends and Colleagues, happy summer to all!

Some of us have been thinking for some time about bringing experiential workshops focused on interoceptive self-care to promote resilience and reduce burn-out among health care providers, particularly those working in stressful clinic and hospital environments.

An opportunity arose to explore a version of this idea when offering a 3-hour workshop this spring that included experiential components to providers and staff through a local health care system continuing ed course.  It was very rewarding to teach interoceptive awareness skills to health care workers! We hope to develop more opportunities in this realm - and welcome any suggestions and contacts to further this endeavor!

We are now gearing up to offer more presentations and Level 1 trainings, see below! 

Please note: details about MABT Training location, dates and times, cancellation policy, CEUs, etc. and a registration link for each of these courses are on our website. Be sure to review details before registering!

Learn more about the trainings here

•  Cynthia will be presenting a webinar on July 23^rd from 9-10:30am PST on MABT through the Barnard Center at the UW School of Nursing. This presentation is free with registration: “Introduction to Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT).”

• MABT is to be highlighted at the AMTA annual convention, to be held this year in Tampa, Florida in September. On the afternoon of Friday 9/13, there will be a research seminar focused on MABT and related research projects. If you’re attending, please join Brian Wingate, Katy Hanson and myself for our presentation! 

• An article on the new research project for torture survivors with chronic pain at the Center for Victims of Torture in St. Paul, Minnesota, a project that Cynthia is collaborating on and includes MABT elements.

• Cynthia’s MABT research project for people in medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is winding down…all data collection and primary analyses are completed, two publications on mental health characteristics on the full sample have been published, and more manuscripts are under review. Stay tuned for more!