Free MBRP Orientation Session

Are you curious about integrating mindfulness into your recovery? Do you find meditation (Step 11) a challenge? Or, do you simply want to develop skills to enhance your recovery from addictive behaviors?

If you answered yes to any of the above, I encourage you to join Dr. Jennifer Miller for an informal discussion about the Center’s newest mindfulness course, MBRP.

Dr. Miller has worked in the recovery community for over 25 years and taught mindfulness for over 12 years. This session offers some background on MBRP, a sample practice from the program, and plenty of time for Q & A.

Register now! What have you got to lose? It's free, and we are really excited to be offering this course to anyone on a recovery journey.

Registration for the 8-Week MBRP Program

Note: CFM requires a minimum of 10 registrants per program. Classes with fewer than 10 registrants will be cancelled and provided a refund. Please be aware of this when making arrangements to attend this program.

Course Description 

Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) is a mindfulness program integrating empirically supported traditional relapse prevention interventions developed by Dr. Alan Marlatt’s Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT), Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Zindel Segal and colleagues’ Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBRP’s main objective is to provide individuals, suffering from addiction, the opportunity to develop mindful awareness in an inclusive, just, and non-punitive environment that emphasizes trust in and respect for each individual’s experience as they walk the path to recovery.

The integrative MBRP curriculum supports clients’ recovery—helping participants develop skills like learning to recognize and stay with discomfort (physical, cognitive and emotional) as opposed to reactively reaching for a “fix.” Combining mindfulness and relapse prevention cultivates heightened awareness of both internal and external triggers, while promoting vital lifestyle modifications for a healthy life of recovery.

MBRP effectively serves as a stand-alone aftercare intervention or as a complement or alternative to other recovery-based programs; for example, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Debtors Anonymous, and programs like Smart Recovery and Celebrate Recovery.

The course schedule consists of eight weekly 2 1/2-hour classes and one daylong class on a weekend.

This highly participatory, practical course includes:

• Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices

• Gentle stretching and mindful yoga

• Inquiry exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life

• Individually tailored instruction

• Group dialogue

• Daily home assignments

• Guided audio files for home practice and a workbook

Objectives

In this course participants will:

1. Develop a better understanding of the underlying functions and mechanisms of addiction, including craving and tolerance for challenging emotional and physical experiences.

2. Cultivate increased awareness of their bodies, minds, and behaviors, including thoughts, emotional states, habit patterns, and reactions.

3. Develop increased awareness of triggers, situations, and the habitual or “automatic” reactions that seem to control many of our lives.

4. Recognize and interrupt automatic behavior, creating the opportunity for agency and choice.

5. Cultivate the ability to pause, observe present experience, and bring awareness to the range of choices before each of us in every moment.

6. Develop skills to transform deeply ingrained and often catastrophic patterns of thought and behavior, shifting at the relationship to all experiences (internal: emotions, thoughts, sensation) and external (environmental cues).

7. Develop a better sense of choice, compassion, and freedom.

8. Learn new ways of relating to discomfort-with openness, curiosity and acceptance rather than aversion.

9. Cultivate kindness and compassion for the full range of human experiences.

Target Audience

This program was specifically created for clients in recovery from substance use disorders and is designed to prevent relapse for those who have undergone inpatient or intensive outpatient treatment as well as anyone who is interested in a harm reduction approach— for connecting with the motivation to recover and cultivate compassion for wherever one may be on their path to recovery.

You must be 18+ years old to join this program.

Program Fee

 $595 ($545 if you pay in full 30 days in advance for the course).

UC SAN DIEGO EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT

UC San Diego Employees may take the course for $545 ($495 if you pay in full 30 days in advance for the course).

Continuing Education Credits and the Certificate of Completion

Certificate of Completion: To be eligible for a Certificate of Completion, you must attend at least 6 of the 8 weekly sessions. After completing the end-of-program survey, please email us at mindfulness@health.ucsd.edu to request your certificate.

CE Certification: this certificate is an additional $50 fee for CE credits. You must attend ALL sessions and the All-Day Session in order to receive the CE certificate.

Continuing education credits are awarded in the following categories: American Psychological Association (APA) and Board of Registered Nursing (BRN).

Psychologists: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 27.0 CE credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: This activity is an approved continuing education program by the American Psychological Association. Credit hours may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 27.0 CE credit.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to sponsor continuing education. Provider Number CEP16351. 32.4 contact hours.

Cancellation Policy

A refund of your registration payment (minus your $50 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit) will be made for participants who withdraw prior to the start of the 1st class by emailing mindfulness@health.ucsd.edu.

If you decide to cancel after the 1st session and before the 2nd session starts, 50% of your registration payment will be refunded. No refunds will be made after the 2nd session starts.

Please be aware that the registration fee, deposits, and funds are non-transferable to other programs.

In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee. In regards to the In-Person Programs, the center is not responsible for any refunds to transportation, hotel accommodations, or any miscellaneous expenses.

The refunds are processed in the same method as the payments were submitted (unless past 180 days).