Mindful Behavior Change (MBC)* Group Leader Training (GLT) Certification Pathway

Open to primary care providers, mental health clinicians, community health workers, educators, and mindfulness and contemplative practitioners

Why MBC? 

We at CMC recognize that there are many paths to mindfulness and compassion and many ways to formally integrate these paths into health care and our communities.  

MBC (Mindful Behavior Change), is offered outside the health system as an educational group with a similar curriculum and training pathway. 

Who should lead MBC?

The curricula are designed to be led by primary care providers, mental health clinicians, community health workers, educators, and mindfulness and contemplative practitioners, and can be tailored to the setting and community being served. 

For MBC to be led as an insurance-reimbursable modality, at least one group leader should be a licensed clinician in the state where the group is offered.  Group leaders who are not health care providers/licensed clinicians or are not interested in billing insurance for their groups are invited to co-lead MBC with a licensed clinician or are invited to lead MBC in the community.

Why become certified? 

The MBC Group Leader Training Certification Pathway provides clinicians and community-based group leaders support to uphold the integrity and quality of the specific intervention, and to feel confident about their leading this curriculum.  The Certification pathway offers group leaders formal feedback using the Mindfulness-Based Intervention Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC) to help grow confidence that they are delivering MBC in a way that is true to themselves, and is also true to the essence of the curriculum and is safe and effective.  

We hope that health care systems will recognize the value of MBC to their institutions and to their patients, and will recognize that as an insurance-reimbursable service, MBC offers institutions the potential to recover the cost of the Group Leader Training Certification Pathway.  

Become a Certified MBC Group Leader 

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* formerly known as Mindfulness Training for Living Well (MTLW)

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