Courage Cohort
March 11 – June 10, 2026
Weekly Sessions
Wednesdays · 5:30 – 8:30 pm PT (8:30 – 11:30 pm ET)
Live Zoom Weekend Retreats
10:00 am – 3:00 pm PT
(1:00 – 6:00 pm ET)
Both Saturdays and Sundays
• March 21–22, 2026
• April 18–19, 2026
• May 16–17, 2026
The Lab of Meditation Method is a 14-week certified online mindfulness teacher training designed to develop confident, trauma-informed meditation teachers and deeply grounded practitioners. This comprehensive mindfulness certification program offers mentorship, live training, and experiential learning to support both personal transformation and professional teaching pathways. Through evidence-based, trauma-informed mindfulness practices and guided self-inquiry, participants cultivate emotional regulation, nervous-system resilience, and embodied presence — becoming clear, compassionate facilitators of mindfulness for themselves and for others.
This mindfulness teacher training is designed for individuals ready to deepen their personal meditation practice or become certified mindfulness teachers serving workplaces, community settings, healthcare environments, and wellness organizations. It supports professionals seeking accredited mindfulness certification, trauma-informed facilitation skills, and practical tools to confidently teach meditation and nervous-system-based mindfulness practices.
Courage Cohort March 11 – June 10, 2026
Weekly Sessions Wednesdays · 5:30 – 8:30 pm PT (8:30 – 11:30 pm ET)
Live Zoom Weekend Retreats 10:00 am – 3:00 pm PT (1:00 – 6:00 pm ET) Both Saturdays and Sundays
APPLICATIONS ARE now OPEN.
The course is delivered live online via Zoom. All session times are listed in Pacific Time (PT).
Rooted in mindfulness, equity, and innovation, this training delivers a trauma-informed, science-based, and socially responsible approach to meditation education and mindfulness teacher certification.
You’ll explore core principles that shape both personal transformation and collective liberation, including:
• Meditation as a path out of suffering • The relationship between inner healing and social justice • The power — and the limits — of science • Learning through joy, beauty, connection, and play
This is a living, collaborative mindfulness training that evolves through honest feedback, cultural awareness, and community care.
Rooted on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Peoples, the program honors land, lineage, and leadership through deep listening and relational responsibility.
Our aim is to cultivate a global network of trauma-informed, socially engaged, and culturally respectful meditation teachers and mindfulness facilitators.
The Lab of Meditation Method is accredited with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
The International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) is “a registered non-profit dedicated to the professionalization and standardization of the mindfulness field. As mindfulness rapidly enters many sectors of society - medicine, healthcare, psychology, education, business academia, social justice, judicial reform, and more - there has been a call for rigorous oversight and standardization.”
Entry into the Lab of Meditation Method is by application and approval.
Applications are reviewed based on:
• Your experience and challenges with meditation • Your willingness to engage in consistent daily practice • Your genuine interest in mindfulness and contemplative inquiry • Your commitment to learning, vulnerability, and ethical participation • Your alignment with a trauma-informed, science-based, and socially equitable approach to meditation
To graduate from the Lab of Meditation Method and receive the Meditation Teacher Certification (T-LOM), participants must complete the following:
Attendance & Participation • Attend all weekday and weekend sessions • If a live session is missed, review the recording, gather notes from your meditation buddy, and complete the assigned reflection questions
Teaching Practicum • 20 hours of guided meditation preparation • 15 hours of live meditation facilitation
Projects • Two individual projects • One collaborative group project
Daily Practice • Maintain a daily meditation practice throughout the program (approximately 90 days, 27 minutes per day) • Log your practice and work with a meditation buddy for accountability and support
Reflections & Feedback • Complete reflection questions after each module • One formal reflection using the Hiro feedback template • Four peer feedback submissions
Graduation is granted at the discretion of the Program Director.
Graduates may apply for registration with the International Mindfulness Teacher Association (IMTA). IMTA requires the following additional prerequisites:
• A minimum of two years of regular mindfulness meditation practice • At least one silent meditation retreat of five days or longer with a qualified teacher • Attendance in a formal mindfulness training such as MBSR, MAPs, or an equivalent program • Participation in multiple retreats is strongly recommended
This pathway ensures graduates are not only certified, but deeply trained, ethically grounded, and professionally prepared to teach mindfulness in clinical, educational, corporate, and community settings.
The Lab of Meditation Method is now an accredited continuing education program with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Registered counsellors and psychotherapists who complete the Lab of Meditation Facilitator Program receive 200 CEC credits toward their professional continuing education requirements.
This accreditation makes the Lab an ideal mindfulness certification pathway for mental health professionals seeking trauma-informed, evidence-based meditation training.
“Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there cannot be outer change; without collective change, no change matters.”
— rev. angel Kyodo Williams
This is our Map of Meaning.
This Map of Meaning describes the territory we will explore together. At The Lab of Meditation, mindfulness is not only a personal practice — it is a relational, social, and systemic practice. We integrate ancient contemplative wisdom with modern neuroscience and trauma-informed psychology, using meditation as a tool for both personal transformation and social change.
We zoom in to the nervous system, brain, and body — and zoom out to the cultural, political, and social systems that shape our lives. Our work explores what true liberation means for individuals, communities, and future generations.
The Lab of Meditation Teacher Training moves in two essential directions.
Zooming Out — Social Justice & Collective Healing
Meditation is not only about being with ourselves. It is about learning how to be with one another — ethically, courageously, and consciously — in a world shaped by inequality, historical harm, and systemic exclusion.
Through facilitated dialogue on identity, power, race, privilege, and systems of oppression, participants explore how trauma-informed mindfulness can support equity, repair, and collective healing — and how meditation can become a socially responsible force for change.
Zooming In — Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology & Embodied Regulation
This training is grounded in evidence-based psychology and modern neuroscience. We draw from clinical models such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to build a deep, practical understanding of the mind, emotions, and behavior.
What makes the Lab of Meditation Method unique is its direct integration of biofeedback and neurofeedback training. Participants learn how meditation affects the nervous system in real time — developing the capacity to self-regulate, shift between sympathetic and parasympathetic states, and cultivate precise interoceptive awareness.
Our Lab is a real lab.
Using clinical-grade sensors, we track heart-rate variability, brainwave activity, breathing patterns, muscle tension, and autonomic responses. Participants learn how to read this data and integrate it into their embodied learning — weaving scientific insight directly into the shared Map of Meaning.
Fieldwork and practicum prepare participants to lead meditation with clarity, confidence, and professional integrity.
Each student completes 35 hours of supervised teaching practicum, including:
• 15 hours of live meditation facilitation
• 20 hours of guided preparation, including personal study, class design, script development, and lesson planning
Teaching hours may be completed through volunteer placements, professional workplaces, and local yoga, wellness, or meditation studios.
The Lab of Meditation offers structured opportunities to earn practicum hours through:
The Lab of Meditation Outreach Program
A social justice initiative in partnership with Adler University, bringing trauma-informed mindfulness meditation to frontline workers and underserved communities.
Live Instagram Meditations
Public, supervised teaching experiences that allow students to build confidence, visibility, and real-world facilitation skills.
This practicum ensures graduates leave with verified teaching experience, ethical grounding, and real-world readiness to guide mindfulness in diverse community, clinical, and organizational settings.
**1 Introduction to The Lab
**2 Foundations of Mindfulness
3 The Historical Context of Modern Western Mindfulness
4 The Lab of Focus
The Focus Weekend
5 The Lab of Joy
6 The Lab Of Traumology 1
7 The Lab Of Traumology 2
8 The Lab Of Creativity
9 nbd
The Joy Weekend
10 The Lab of Ethical Embodiment
11 The Lab of the Neuroanatomy of Meditation 101
12 The Lab of the Neuroanatomy of Meditation 102
The Calm Weekend
**+ The Lab of Meditation Outreach
Hiro holds a Doctoral Degree in Political Sciences and Sociology (Universita’ Statale di Milano, Italy); a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and a Master of Science in Positive Psychology. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at her private practice, the Vancouver Brain Lab, in Vancouver, Canada.
Hiroko started practicing in 1993 under the guidance of Buddhist teacher Davide Cova, in Italy. She has sustained a Mindfulness practice since then. She has attended several retreats and trainings in Europe and North America.
She has studied under the guidance of several teachers, among which dr. Rick Hanson, Pascal Auclair, Michele McDonald, rev. angel Kyodo Williams and many others.
She has completed the Rebirthing Breathwork Teacher Training program with Leonard Orr and has facilitated individual and Breathwork sessions.
She was the co-founder of Moment Meditation, Canada’s first modern meditation members club in Downtown Vancouver. She served as content director for Moment, curating workshops, classes, scripts, and trainings for the studio teacher, until the studio closed in 2017.
She has taught meditation in corporative environments, to groups and to individuals in her clinical practice.
Some of the brands she has worked for are: Lululemon, Lululemon Lab, Arc’xteryx, Sage, Hootsuite, Vega, Kit and Ace, Lawson Lundell Law, DDB, Four Seasons, Coast Mental Health, UBC Alumni.
Hiro is currently serving as a consultant and a facilitator for the United Nations Foundation and their program Peace on Purpose, offered in collaboration with Lululemon for humanitarian workers and staff in Mali, Ecuador, Venezuela and Ghana, and all over the world.
“A beautiful offering in today’s climate society. What I really appreciated was the real acknowledgement of Western science and Eastern philosophy.
A fresh fact about this course: you will fall in love with the people around you, with hiro, and maybe with yourself”.
Tessy Sloane
Mom, Word artist, Global Recruiter, Meditation Teacher at Chapter Two meditation.
“I had the amazing honour to be in the 200 hours course. It was an impactful and transformative course, for the main reason of merging mindfulness and science, and positive psychology and neuroscience, and social justice. Now I have all this information and this new found knowledge and wisdom that I am able to offer in my practice . I feel well equipped ”
Dora Kamau
Mental health visionary, self-care advocate , Mindfulness Teacher at Headspace
Registered Clinical Counsellor, Meditation Teacher.
Pronouns she/they
Hiro holds a Doctoral Degree in Political Sciences and Sociology (Universita’ Statale di Milano, Italy); a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and a Master of Science in Positive Psychology. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at her private practice, the Vancouver Brain Lab, in Vancouver, Canada.
Hiroko started practicing in 1993 under the guidance of Buddhist teacher Davide Cova, in Italy. She has sustained a Mindfulness, daily, individual practice since then. She has attended several retreats and trainings in Europe and North America.
She has studied under the guidance of teacher dr. Rick Hanson, Pascal Auclair, Michele McDonald (Vipassana retreat) at the Asian Center at the University of British Columbia.
She has completed the Rebirthing Breathwork Teacher Training program and has facilitated individual and Breathwork sessions.
She is the co-founder of Moment Meditation, Canada’s first modern meditation members club in Downtown Vancouver. She served as content director for Moment, curating workshops, classes, scripts, and trainings for the studio teacher, until the studio closed in 2017.
She has taught meditation in corporative environments, to groups and to individuals in her clinical practice. She taught regularly at Moment, since its opening in October 2016 until its closure in October 2018
Heart-Centered Leader. Consultant, public speaker, educator.
Pronouns she/her.
Chastity Davis is a mixed heritage woman of First Nations and European descent. She is a proud member of the Tla’amin Nation, located in Powell River just off the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC.
Chastity strives to keep her sacred First Nations culture, traditions, and values incorporated into her modern day life. She feels it is her life purpose to facilitate the building of bridges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and has dedicated her professional and personal life to do so.
Chastity is sole proprietor to her own consulting business, Chastity Davis Consulting and has been a successful entrepreneur for 8+ years. She is the Chair of the Ministers Advisory Council on Aboriginal Women, Chair of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Indigenous Council, and past director for the Minerva Foundation.
Chastity co-founded the Professional Aboriginal Women’s Network and is currently serving as Co-Chair for this important network. Chastity will be completing her MA in International and Intercultural Communications in 2019, has a BA in Professional Communications and a Diploma in Marketing Management and Professional Sales. Chastity is also a Registered Yoga Teacher;
Chastity weaves in Indigenous knowledge with the ancient wisdom of yoga and brings her practice to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women across BC.
Chastity received two awards in 2017 for her business, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Outstanding Business Achievement (BC Aboriginal Business Awards) and 40 Under 40, Business in Vancouver. Chastity has spoken at several international, national, and local events on the importance of building bridges between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
self-care and wellness artist, meditation teacher & mindfulness facilitator
Pronouns: she/her
As a 200 hr meditation teacher and wellness artist, Dora Kamau, uses meditation as a tool to awaken individuals to the true experience of who they are. Impenetrable and unshaken by the qualms of life, Dora utilizes her own lived experience to guide and host in-person and online gatherings for women to connect through intentional conversations. Aside from meditation, Dora is a registered psychiatric nurse that integrates holistic, trauma-informed practices for women living with substance dependence and mental illness in Vancouver, BC.
Dora is a featured meditation teacher on Insight Timer, and a Full time Teacher at Headspace (congrats Dora!)
Consultant, facilitator, writer and artist.
Pronouns they/them
they are one of Vancouver’s fifty most influential people of 2018, as awarded by Vancouver Magazine for their work as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter - Vancouver, Canada’s second Black Lives Matter chapter. They were also a winner of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Youth Leadership Award in Social Movement Building for their commitment to Black liberation and LGBTQ+ activism.
In 2017, Cicely Belle was listed as one of CBC’s 150 Black Womxn Making Change in Canada and in 2019 they became one of BC Business’s 30 under 30 business leaders as well as a finalist for the Canadian LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Cicely Belle’s first book debuts in 2020 with Arsenal Pulp Press and VS Books.
They are the founder of Stratagem conference, and editorial director of magazine Ripple of Change. They recently published their first book, Burning Sugar.
Inclusive Leadership Consultant.
Pronouns they/them
Jessie is the founder of the consulting firm Kith and Common. KITH+common was born from and inspired by its essential purpose; to create space for others to be as they are, without shame.
KITH is a pillar for all things community specializing in business development strategies and community engagement approaches, all from an overarching lens of diversity and inclusion planning and integration.
KITH offers inclusion consulting, customized content and training creation, and group facilitations. Jessie will work with you and your organization to bring inclusive practices and insights to your internal culture in order to help create space for the diversity that exists to grow, flourish and impact change for both your organization and the communities you reach.
They believe in creating space for all people to come as they are. KITH is in the work of inclusion to create space for all people to express their diversity and find power in sharing their unique lived experience.
*JONATHAN (he, him): MINDFUL ARTIST AND COMMUNITY CONNECTOR + AUTUMN (she/her):IS A MOTHER, A MINDSET COACH, AND MEDITATION GUIDE.
JONATHAN AND Autumn are THE CO-FOUNDERs OF FLO MEDITATION + WELLNESS
JONATHAN'S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF IS THAT EVERYONE HAS THE ABILITY TO INCORPORATEMINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION INTO THEIR LIVES. SINCE MOVING TO HALIFAX TWO YEARSAGO, JONATHAN HAS BEEN ABLE TO USE HIS CREATIVE ENERGY, AND PASSION FORCOMMUNITY TO OPEN FLO, HALIFAX’S FIRST MODERN MINDFULNESS STUDIO.
AUTUMN IS on a MISSION TO BUILD AHAPPIER, HEALTHIER, AND MORE CONNECTED SOCIETY THROUGH MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION
Yoga, Meditation and Creative Living Teacher Pronouns she/her
Melissa is a Buddhist Chaplain, member of Upaya Zen Centre, student of Roshi Joan Halifax and lay-ordained in the Soto Zen Prajna Mountain Order. She also practices with Norman Fischer from Everyday Zen, and is a keen student of Stephen Batchelor. Chaplaincy guides Melissa to consider how one might come along-side the ways people suffer, while supporting the restoration of goodness in bodies, hearts/minds, and the world. Her current work explores The Domestic Monastery, community life, ritual/ceremony, cultural anxiety, trauma, addiction, consumption of information technology, time, and the greater impact on the future of our world. How does self-care and spiritual formation serve as a collective 'we care' ultimately unfolding our greatest aspirations for parenting, partnership, intimacy, ecological connection, meaningful work, and influence on generations moving forward. Melissa is a yoga and meditation teacher with a clear and well-trained trauma informed lens. Her movement practice has been transforming for over 25 years and in recent years is most inspired by creative mover Suniti Dernovsek. She teaches locally and specializes in workshops and retreats in Canada and Internationally. Most recently Melissa accepted a position as Chaplain in Residence with Third Space Charity and Counselling to support UBC students and graduate Interns from the Masters of Social Work and Clinical Counselling Program. In 2021 they will spearhead the first Compassionate Engagement Program in the Okanagan for front-line workers, community leaders and philanthropists. As you might have guessed, she loves the art of collaboration and has the honour of working with amazing community leaders, Buddhist Practitioners, Clinical Counsellors, Yoga & Movement Specialists, and Wilderness Guides. Much of Melissa's courage to keep going was instilled though her great friendship and collaborative years with Michael Stone. You can read more about her history and offerings on her website
Melissa is married, has three teens, a big black lab and a home tucked into the woods with chores that are never complete. I used to work as a Music & Recreation Therapist, Addiction Counsellor, and Executive Director of ENSO Society, but then everything changed. Everything is still shifting and moving today.
Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, Culture Specialist
Pronouns he/him
Colin is on a mission to change the world by transforming workplace culture. He believes that if we turn the spaces where people spend most of their waking hours into an incubator of transformation and growth, we can unleash the human race’s potential for infinite possibilities and a profound level of happiness.
His journey here started after spending 7 years training as a Buddhist monk. He aspired to bring the practices and tools of mindfulness and meditation into the world where it was needed most. Right now, that place is here in boardrooms, offices, and workplace environments.
Meditation teacher, trainer and social activist
pronouns she/her
Michaela McCormick has been a practicing Buddhist and meditator since 2001 coming out of the Shambhala tradition. She is a student of Rev.angel Kyodo williams, among others. As a teacher, she draws from many wisdom traditions. She leads Queer Dharma in Portland, OR, and workshops on white awareness, anti-racism, patriarchy, and social liberation. She is a long-time activist focused on racial and economic justice, currently working in the Poor People's Campaign. For 25 years she worked as a teacher, trainer, and practitioner of conflict resolution and public dialogue. She has written two memoirs and now writes poetry and essays on social and spiritual themes.
meditation guide, joy-centered Black feminist, vitality visionary, and seeker of a universal love language.
Pronouns she/her
I am a playful maturing woman, 36 years married, mother of two “adulties, and the love child nurtured by a remarkable mother who tenderly and selflessly raised me up alongside 6 siblings.
My desire is to live in communion with the earth as a creature unbothered, profoundly interconnected to human beings who believe in and are guided by human dignity principles.
I am a gentle spirit yet powerfully activated by the desire to heal and compassionately care for self and collective.
I know myself as a hummingbird.
CREATOR, GUIDE AND FACILITATOR, CERTIFIED AS A PROFESSIONAL MINDFULNESS TEACHER, RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER,CONSCIOUS ENERGY MEDICINE WORKER AND FORMER PERSONAL TRAINING COACH.
Pronouns she/her
FLORY (SHE, HER) IS A DEEP FEELER, SEEKER AND SEER WITH DIVERSE EXPERIENCES AND SKILL SETS THATENABLE HER TO CREATE CONTAINERS FOR DEEP INQUIRY, HEALING AND TRANSFORMATIONBOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND IN GROUP.
HER CURRENT WORK THROUGH THE RESTED REVOLUTION HONORS AND ILLUMINATES INNERALCHEMY AS A PATHWAY FOR COMMUNITY CARE AND LIBERATION. SHE OFFERS PEOPLESUPPORT AND SELF HEALING RESOURCES AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF HUMAN AND QUANTUMSCIENCES X THE UNIQUE ART OF YOU. SHE FACILITATES THE REMEMBERING OF SELFTHROUGH ALL OUR BODIES: FROM THE MOST DENSE PHYSICAL PLANE THROUGH TO THE UNSEENAND IMMEASURABLE.
AS A FORMER CORPORATE EMPLOYEE AND PREVIOUSLY-SUBSCRIBED-HUSTLER FOR A DECADE,SHE HAS ARRIVED TO ACTIVELY REJECTING EXHAUSTION AND BURNOUT AS MARKERS— ANDCOSTS— OF SUCCESS AND THRIVING. HER OWN DECOLONIZATION AND DECONDITIONING FROMSYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION ARE ONGOING.
FLORY IS A SECOND GENERATION SETTLER OF TAIWANESE AND DUTCH ANCESTRY. BORN ONUNCEDED, ANCESTRAL AND TRADITIONAL TONGVA TERRITORY, SHE IS ALSO A SETTLERCONTINUALLY LEARNING AS AN UNINVITED GUEST ON MUSQUEAM, SQUAMISH, AND TSLEIL-WAUTUTH LANDS ON THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST.
Meditation teacher, Yoga Teacher, Spiritual mentor and Counsellor, Founder of Dorje Ling Center.
Pronouns he/him
Davide Cova (1968, Milan) transmits psychology, philosophy and above all else Buddhist introspective meditation in its multiple formats and in a secular key to various Centers and Institutions. For ten years he was a student of the Venerable Lama Geshe Ciampa Gyatso, who left his body in December 2007. He attended and completed the seven-year full-time course 'Masters Program in Buddhist Studies' at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Pomaia , and was a Buddhist monk for three years. At the end of the Masters Program he made a four-month pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India and to Christian sites in the Middle East. On his return he was in individual and isolated meditation retreat for 16 months. His training in the Mahayana Buddhist field continues under the guidance of the entourage of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, namely the Venerable Dagri Rinpoche, the Venerable Kensur Jhado Rinpoche, the Venerable Dagyab Rinpoce, the Venerable Tich Naht Hahn and certainly the Dalai Lama himself.
He also trained in Berlin as a teacher of Classical Hatha-Yoga in accordance with Patañjali's Yoga Sutras and has been teaching it since 1995 in multiple locations. He trained as a Biosystemic Counselor at the Italian School of Biosystems in Rome, with Prof. Dr. Jérome Liss and deepened his training with Prof. Dr. Paul Rebillot, founder of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco. Graduated in Political Philosophy from the University of Milan and post-graduate specialization in 'Conflict Resolution and Transformation' at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont (USA) and at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. , Pisa. He served as a political analyst at the UN offices in New York (DPA) and Copenhagen (UNDP).
It offers sessions of Spiritual Mentoring, Deep Listening and Self Realization with psycho-corporeal, group or individual mediation, integrating the psychology of the Dharma with the transpersonal and humanistic one, integrating the stimulation of the meridians, of the conscience plexuses with psychogenealogy. He has conceived and conducts courses, seminars and retreats on Buddhist mental transformation in a secular and Western key, and participates as a speaker at conferences and lectures on this topic. He founded the “Dorje-Ling Center for the Practice and Interdisciplinary Study of Awareness” in the Umbrian countryside, where he offers courses, seminars and retreats on Buddhist mental transformation in the light of neuroscience, quantum physics and transpersonal humanistic psychology.
The Sunset Cohort dates are:
17th September 2025/ 17th December 2025 Wednesdays evenings 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm PT (8:30 pm- 11:30 pm ET)
There will also be 3 ZOOM weekend retreats: The retreats run from 10:00 am- to 3:00 pm PT (1 pm - 6 pm ET) on both Saturdays and Sundays:
This course is held online on Zoom
Cohorts are capped at 15 students
The total course tuition is $3,900 CAD (plus GST if applicable, that means if you pay taxes in Canada). Payments are available in 6 months installments (650CAD x 6 or in 3 months installments (1300 x 3).
With one payment in full, you get a 100 CAD discount+ total= $3,800 CAD (plus GST)
Once your application has been received and accepted, you can either pay in full or choose a payment in installments.
If you are interested in taking your spot, please know that we are only accepting a limited number of students (the number of students is capped at 25). After signing up, and accepting your spot, you will still have two weeks to decide if the course work for you.
Accepting to be part of the cohort means that you commit to being a part of it. After the first two weeks, we can not offer a refund and you are still responsible for completing your payments until paid in full.
If you are interested in taking your spot, please know that we are only accepting a limited number of students (the number of students is capped at 15). After signing up, and accepting your spot, you will still have two weeks to decide if the course work for you.
Accepting to be part of the cohort means that you commit to being a part of it. After the first two weeks, we can not offer a refund and you are still responsible for completing your payments until paid in full.
As a white settler living in Canada, I believe in doing my part to build a more just and equitable future. One small way I contribute is by offering 2 scholarships with reduced rates (10%–40%) for BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and others from marginalized communities. These 2 scholarships aim to help redistribute access, opportunity, and support. Needs are assessed through a simple conversation—we'll just talk and see what feels fair.
THIS IS THE APPLICATION FORM TO A SCHOLARSHIP.
We are a certified 200-hour Mindfulness Teachers Program with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA.org). If you are interested in becoming certified with the IMTA there are additional requirements that you will need to complete for them to certify you, but our training is one of them. You can find more information here additionally to the completion of our requirements, you will want to fulfill these requirements:
-Attend all weekday and weekend classes (if not present, please know all the material is uploaded in a learning platform called Thinkific, so all the recording will be available within a few days. Please listen to recordings, gather notes from meditation buddy, compile the reflection) -Guiding meditation preparation (20 hours) and meditation facilitation (15 hours) -Group project (book-club) -Daily meditation practice for the duration of the course (approx 90 days * 27 mins/day). Log your practice, have a meditation friend to keep you resourced and supported. -Complete reflection questions after each module in manual Hiro feedback template (2x) and peer feedback template (4X)
Additionally, you will be eligible for registration with the IMTA. https://www.imta.org/? The IMTA also requires additional pre-requisites which are:
A minimum 2 years of regular mindfulness meditation practice Attended at least 1 mindfulness meditation retreat of a minimum of 5 days with a qualified instructor. More than 1 retreat is highly recommended. Attended a mindfulness course like Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) or equivalent
Yes, as of 2019 the Lab of Meditation 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training is an approved course with the CCPA, and students can earn 200 CEC upon completion.
THIS COURSE WILL BE HELD ONLINE
The social justice component is the most fundamental pillar of our training. Our belief can be summarized as a quote by rev. angel Kyodo Williams, who says,
**"Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there cannot be outer change, without collective change, no change matters." **
We engage in meditation as a form to commit to inner change and liberation. We invite the recognition that to change collectively and aim towards the dismantling of systems of oppression, we have start from the meditation pillow.
Our meditation framework is based on embodiment, nervous system resourcing, compassion, active engagement.
Look at the website under Module 7 to find more details guidelines.
With regard to weekly time commitment, we suggest that the course will take on average about 7-10 hours each week. That includes 3 hours in class, a daily personal meditation practice, and a few other reflections and self-study exercises that you will be required to complete.
With regard to weekly time commitment, we suggest that the course will take on average about 7-10 hours each week. That includes 3 hours in class, a daily personal meditation practice, and a few other reflections and self-study exercises that you will be required to complete.
Most of the content, including manual, powerpoints, notes and lecture recordings will be uploaded on an e-learning platform (Thinkific). With regards to missed classes, we hold our students accountable for content missed and so we will ask you to review the material in your manual, review the recording of the class and complete the reflection questions at the end of every lecture. Other homework might entails short essays, and writing and recording meditation scripts.
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THIS COURSE WILL BE HELD ONLINE
Completion of the Lab of Meditation and the IMTA certification are two separate, and yet complementary things. You will need a certified course like the Lab of Meditation to fulfill some of the requirements for IMTA. Other requirements can be checked here and for example are additional guiding hours, personal practice, and retreats.
These are all great courses. One of the reason you might truly find our course interesting, is if you are interested in the science and psychology of meditation and how we can use that lens to become better mindfulness and meditation teachers. Our program is a unique exploration of physiology, neurobiology, and biofeedback, so very much anchored in science, while understanding the root of suffering, honoring the traditional roots of Buddhist meditation. Hiro Demichelis, founder and main teacher of the Lab of Meditation is also a psychotherapist, with a Masters in Positive Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology. She has designed a program that leads us from the individual to the collective structures as a whole. We take a deep dive into social and racial justice and how through engaged practice and awareness we can create a more just world for all. Also, our course is Canada’s only IMTA certified training.
Upon graduation, in addition to the skills and training you will carry with you (the most IMPORTANT part, really :-), you will receive a certification of completion from the Lab of Meditation.
Also, we are a certified 200-hour Mindfulness Teachers Program with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA.org). If you are interested in becoming certified with the IMTA there are additional requirements that you will need to complete, but our training is one of them. You can find more information here
(get on the waitlist if interested)
Dates: tbc
Time: 7:30am-6pm PT
Investment: tbc
Location: Zoomiverse or tbc
Mark your calendar to join hiro for a week of heart-centered meditation.
Please note: This retreat is accepted by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) as a part of their requirements/credentials for Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional Level.
Peace on Purpose is a partnership between the United Nations Foundation and Lululemon that provides humanitarian and development workers with mindfulness tools designed to support their own well-being—so that they can continue to care for others. These simple and evidence-based practices equip people responding to the world’s biggest challenges with resources to respond to adversity, uncertainty, and rapid change.
