RAIN Meditation 6-week Class: 6 Tuesdays, TBD_6 CEs - Thank you for registering early
How We Practice the RAIN Meditation
RAIN Meditation Chart - Acronym and Process
Why RAIN Meditation is Helpful to Mental Health Clinicians
Teacher Dana
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This class is designed specifically for mental health clinicians, professionals, and pre-professionals. Note: Although this practice is informed by Buddhism, you do not have to be Buddhist or spiritual to practice mindfulness or attend this class.
Best suited for those who are beginners to RAIN meditation or those who are looking to bring mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions that arise in the therapeutic relationship. This is appropriate for all level of psychology practitioners, but especially exciting to those looking to enhance their theoretical approaches with self-refection, self-awareness, mindfulness, and the expansive consciousness that comes from working from the inside out. Please Note: You must attend all 6 classes to receive CEs, which are awarded for instructional time only.
Mindfulness meditation is the foundation for mindfulness-based interventions, yet meditation may be a difficult place to start for some clinicians. It might be challenging to be sit quietly because of difficult sensations, emotions, and thoughts. RAIN meditation might be a good place to start to get a sense of how to bring kind attention to difficult experiences that arise in your work with clients. Created by meditation teacher and psychologist Tara Brach, the RAIN practice uses the acronym R-A-I-N to inquire into a difficult situation: R is for Recognize what is going on. A is for Allow the experience to be there, just as it is. I is for Investigate with curiosity, interest, and care. N is for Nurture with self-compassion. After the RAIN helps us realize freedom from our conditioned habits and our narrow identity. This class will give you a change to learn and practice RAIN, apply it to experiences you are having in the clinical relationship, and ask questions.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Name and Practice the Four Steps of RAIN Practice
Consciously acknowledge with kind attention the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are affecting you in at least one difficult clinical relationship.
Allow the thoughts, emotions, sensations, or feelings we have recognized about at least one aspect of your clinical work to simply be there, without trying to fix or avoid anything.
Investigate with curiosity, interest, and care the effect of what you have recognized, directing a more focused attention to what is unfolding in the moment about your experience in at least one clinical relationship.
Nurture yourself by sensing what the vulnerable place inside you most needs in therapeutic relationship you are inquiring about, and then offering some gesture of active care that might address this need with the intent of becoming more resourced in your work with at least one clinical relationship.
Rest in a wakeful, tender space of loving awareness, no longer imprisoned in a limiting sense of self, sitting with yourself and at least one of your clients with a little more ease.
Inner Science Institute is approved by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor Continuing Education for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S and LEP’S. Our provider number is #147142.
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All clinicians outside California are welcome to take our courses and receive a certificate upon completion of any course or program.
