MEDITATION FACILITATION
Individual & Bespoke Group Training
The name Engineering Awareness reflects a simple belief: awareness is not something we acquire, but something we learn to trust. Beneath our habits of striving, protecting, and performing lies an innate capacity for presence, compassion, and connection.
Over the years, Susie's work has evolved beyond teaching mindfulness. Drawing from contemplative traditions, somatic awareness, interpersonal neurobiology, and many years as a psychotherapist, she designs experiences that support individuals and groups with cultivating emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and the capacity to meet life's inevitable challenges with greater wisdom and kindess.
The work is experiential rather than instructional. Participants are invited not only to understand themselves differently, but to inhabit their lives differently—through practices that engage the body, heart, mind, relationships, and the living world.
Whether working with individuals, groups, or organizations, Susie's intention is to create the conditions in which people can rediscover their innate capacity for awareness, compassion, courage, and belonging.
Mindful Self-Compassion
MSC is an evidence-based program developed by Christopher Germer and Kristen Neff designed to cultivate self-compassion and build emotional resiliency. Growing research demonstrates that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional and physical wellbeing, better relationships, and reduced anxiety and depression. MSC is available in-person, online, and as a five-day intensive.
The Institute for Meditation & Psychotherapy Certificate Program
This training is available for therapists, healthcare providers, coaches and other allied health professionals.
The Institute for Meditation & Psychotherapy Certificate Program is the oldest and most comprehensive training in mindfulness and psychotherapy.
This course partners with Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and consists of weekly ‘live’ online events including:
• Interactive live discussions with faculty
• Small group moderated live discussions, case consultation, and practice teaching by students
• Web-based lectures and readings by international experts, viewed at your convenience, from any time zone
• Active online discussion forum on course material
• Active online meditation discussion forum
• Ongoing meditation instruction and support from seasoned meditation teachers
• Two retreats for didactic instruction, community building, and meditation instruction/practice
This course forms the didactic core for the Advanced Fellowship in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy at the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion affiliated with the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry– the first such professional advanced clinical fellowship for training of mental health professionals associated with a major medical school