Clinical Meditation and Imagery Certificate:

Training for Helping Professionals

• The National Institutes of Health calls upon health professionals to become "catalysts and guides" in teaching the mind-body-spirit skills of meditation and imagery to patients, clients, students and employees.
• Internationally, psychotherapists, nurses, doctors, clergy, educators and other helping professionals have studied meditation and imagery with us to expand their repertoire of skills, open new paths in their careers and deepen their own personal and spiritual growth. Many of our former students have started innovative programs in hospitals, clinics, treatment centers, educational institutions, organizations, and private practice.
• Our teachers, Bonney Gulino Schaub, M.S., A.P.R.N., B.C. and Richard Schaub, Ph.D., have been pioneers for thirty years in applying these skills in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, private practice, graduate school teaching and international training. Their work has been featured in Oprah’s O Magazine, and their current book, The End of Fear, was cited by Larry Dossey, M.D., the pioneer of integrative medicine, as a "masterpiece." Their second book, Dante’s Path, was a finalist in the National Books for a Better Life Awards and a Top 10 Pick in Health, Mind & Body by the editors of Amazon.com. Their first book, Healing Addictions, has been adapted by treatment centers in the United States, Canada, and Italy.
• They are ably assisted in their teaching by Megan McInnis Burt, R.N., M.S., HNC., and Michael Follman, M.A.

TRAINING TOPICS

Overview of Clinical Meditation and Imagery

This session will not only give you initial skills in meditation and imagery but will empower you with the basic principles, scientific context and authority for your practice. From shamanism to Olympic athlete training to the most current mind-body medicine, the power of meditation and imagery has been utilized around the world.

Relaxed Concentration and Stress Reduction

The benefits of meditation and imagery begin in the unified mind-body state of relaxed concentration which they evoke. You learn a repertoire of methods to help people enter this state. By itself, this state reduces stress ("the relaxation response’), increases inner peace, and is the ground for transformative work.

Medical and Mind-Body Methods

You learn how to introduce and apply your new skills to people suffering from tension headaches, neck and back pain, high blood pressure, stomach problems, and other issues in which fear, stress and anxiety are contributing to physical symptoms.

The Mental Rehearsal of New Attitudes and Behaviors

Test-taking, medical procedures, public appearances, relationship and social challenges, job interviews and other anxiety-provoking situations can be improved through meditation and imagery.

Healing Memories

Memories are stored clusters of image, emotion and meaning. Through the meditative state and therapeutic imagery, we can affect our memories and bring new understanding and new feeling to them, changing their influence on our present-day life.

Discovering the Wisdom Mind

This source of inner wisdom has many names. It is the mystic’s vision, the artist’s muse, the scientist’s intuition. The Old Testament prophets received it by seeing visions and hearing voices: Elijah referred to it as "the still small voice within." When Moses ascended the mountain to receive wisdom about how to lead his people and asked for a name by which to call the source of his guidance, he was told only, "Tell them that ‘I Am’ sent you." Tibetan Buddhists call this internal wisdom prajna. The Zen tradition refers to the "inner reason of the universe which exists in each mind." Gandhi meditated in order to receive guidance from what he called "the inner light" of universal truth. The Kabbalah of the Jewish mystics call this higher center of wisdom the Tiferet, and Greek mythology speaks of it as the oracle. In the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous it is the "higher power" which returns you to sanity. Dante, in The Divine Comedy, personified inner wisdom as a divine feminine guide, Beatrice. Carl Jung referred to it as "the Self." Roberto Assagioli called it the "higher self" and founded a school of modern psychology, psychosynthesis, to develop a science of the higher self.

Spiritual Imagery and Visualization Meditation

The original purpose of sacred art was to inspire higher states of consciousness. We learn the practices of visualization meditation from both Western and Eastern traditions and how it can be applied clinically to the modern person's need for spirituality.

Dying, Death and Grief Imagery

We have trained many patients in meditation and imagery to ease their fear and to approach serious medical issues and the dying process. The unsaid things and unfinished business of grief can be completed in the imagination.

Individual Differences in the Paths of Spiritual Development

Meditation and imagery lead to higher states of consciousness and open the path to further spiritual development. By understanding the many different ways people walk on this path, you can assist your clients in accessing the innate transcendent aspect of their nature.

"Bonney and Richard, with whom I have worked for many, many years, give us both a reassuring and realistic guide to cultivating wisdom and illumination in our daily lives." Frank Lipman, M.D., Manhattan’s leading physician-acupuncturist, author of Spent, Total Renewal

"Bonney and Richard teach us how we can achieve our highest potential." Barbara Dossey, Ph.D., R.N., pioneer in holistic nursing, author of Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, Florence Nightingale - Mystic, Visionary, Healer

TRAINING SCHEDULE

• One Saturday per month, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
• Seven Saturdays
• Two Webinars

Please contact us for the next start date.

TRAINING SETTING

Small group classes are taught in a supportive learning environment. Located in the village of Huntington, one mile from the Long Island Railroad, our training is attended by people from all over Long Island, the city, upstate New York and Connecticut. Founded in 1653, Huntington is known for its many fine cafes and restaurants where you and your fellow trainees may wish to meet at lunch or after class.

TUITION INFORMATION

• Meditation and Imagery Training, including a training manual, is $1200. Required books are extra.
• Payment in two installments ($600. each) is possible if pre-arranged.
• Tuition will be refunded in full after the first class if, for any reason, the student or the teachers decide to discontinue the student’s training. No further refunds of tuition will be made.
• Forty-five (45) Continuing Education Credits are granted. We are an approved provider of continuing education credits for counselors by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). We are an approved provider of continuing education credits for nurses by the ANCC-approved accrediting agency, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.
• A Certificate in Meditation and Imagery Training is granted. You become a registered member of our center and are invited to free supervision for your future work and career ideas.

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Deposit Clinical Meditation and Imagery Training Deposit $100.00 Half tuition $600.00 Full tuition $1,200.00

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