CMC News + Courses + Events
May 20 and June 3: For our last two Mindfulness & Compassion Grand Rounds lectures in this academic year, we will feature innovative research by our own CMC team. The recordings for these sessions will not be released until data from these studies has been published; we strongly encourage attending live.
May 20: The PARTS Study- A First Look: Insights from Group-Based Internal Family Systems Research; Dr. Zev Schuman-Olivier and the CHA Internal Family Systems (IFS) research team will present data and case reports from our Program for Alleviating and Reducing Trauma and Stress study, which is a group-based IFS program for PTSD. Register here.
June 3: Mindful-OBOT Study- A First Look: Insights from a National Study of Live-Online Mindfulness Groups During Opioid Use Disorder Treatment; Dr. Zev Schuman-Olivier and the MINDFUL-OBOT team will present initial results from CMC's national study of remote live online mindfulness groups for opioid use disorder. Register here.
June 13: New program from CMC! Mindful Healthcare Scholars teaches healthcare professionals to bring evidence-based mindfulness based programing into their own healthcare institution, based on our years of experience integrating with Cambridge Health Alliance. Applications open now; year-long program starts June 2024.
Visit our Mindful Mental Health page for more information on clinical programs covered by insurance.
We at CMC denounce acts of all forms of violence and racism. We denounce the persistent and dehumanizing systematic brutality against Black, Indigenous, and all communities of Color. We condemn oppression and its impact on intergenerational trauma, health, and well-being at the individual, community, and global levels.
Belonging, Equity and Anti-Racism at CMC
CMC is engaging in reflection as individuals and as an organization with support from our internal committee, BEAR (Belonging, Equity, and Anti-Racism). BEAR formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the escalation of the Black Lives Matter movement, with support from the Seven Stones Embodying Anti-Racism and Healing Collective Trauma course in 2021. In BEAR, we facilitate discussion, intentional reflection, and Center-wide change for and within our staff, volunteers, group leaders, clinical faculty, and leadership. In particular, the committee operates with an understanding that those with the most structual power (e.g., white, upper class, cisgender, male) have the main role and accountability in dismantling the systems they benefit from (e.g., white body supremacy) and creating culture (e.g., collectivist anti-racist white culture) that actively fulfills this aim, particularly within cross-cultural mindfulness teaching and research. To read more, please visit the BEAR page.
If you have a concern, comment, or request for the ways CMC can improve its mission to support belonging, equity and anti-racism, please email cmcbearcommittee@challiance.org.
