Mindfulness for Practitioners:
4-Week Online Course
Cultivating Calm, Clarity, & Connection for Practitioners, Therapists and Coaches.
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Join Our Online Mindfulness for Practitioners Course: Discover the Art & Science Being Present, Holding Therapeutic Space, & Compassionate Connection.
In today’s fast-paced, and complex world, it’s easy to feel distracted, disconnected, and overwhelmed. As complexity seems to be increasing our role as practitioners gets more challenging. The Mindfulness for Practitioners Course offers a transformative opportunity to slow down, restore balance, nurture peace of mind and reconnect with your inner wisdom. Over four weeks, you will develop the skills to cultivate inner calm and clarity while rediscovering a compassionate connection to both yourself, your clients and the wider web of life, an essential skill in being an effective practitioner.
Whether you're guiding clients in therapy, in a care giving role, or working in the community, mindfulness for practitioners provides personal and professional development for practitioners, counsellors, coaches and therapists. Mindfulness is more than a practice—it’s a powerful therapeutic skill that is emergent in the present moment. Grounded in neuroscience and psychological principles, this course provides evidence-based strategies to expand awareness, enhance emotional intelligence, and foster deeper relational connection.
Why Mindfulness For Practitioners?
Modern life often pulls us away from the natural flow of existence, leaving us feeling numb, isolated from one another and disconnected from ourselves. As therapists we need to be able to sustain our therapeutic presence and show up fully for the clients we support. Mindfulness bridges this gap, empowering you to navigate the stress response, reclaim agency and compassionate connection, supporting you to hold space for the human condition with authenticity, skilfulness and unconditional positive regard. Through systematic practice, creative exercises, interpersonal dialogue, and guided reflection, you’ll learn:
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Therapeutic Application: The course provides structured guidance on using mindfulness techniques to support client wellbeing, including stress reduction, emotional regulation, trauma-informed care, and fostering presence in sessions.
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Ethical & Safe Practice: Emphasis is placed on professional boundaries, ethical considerations, and adapting mindfulness practices to different client needs within a therapeutic setting.
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Personal Practice & Holding Space: A key component of the course is the practitioner’s own mindfulness practice, which is essential for cultivating self-awareness, resilience, and the capacity to hold space effectively for clients.
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Diversity & Inclusion: The course explores how mindfulness can be adapted to diverse cultural and personal backgrounds, ensuring accessibility and sensitivity in therapeutic applications.
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Emerging Practice: Participants engage with contemporary mindfulness-based therapeutic approaches, such as ACT, MBCT, and nature-based mindfulness, which are increasingly recognised in psychotherapy.
Course Highlights​
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Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Understand how mindfulness rewires the brain to enhance focus, emotional regulation, and adaptive thinking.
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Mindfulness Techniques: Explore practical tools to reawaken sensory awareness, creativity, and flow states.
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Relational, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Aware and Nature-Based Practices: Deepen your connection to others and the environment through exercises designed to inspire awe, belonging, and purpose while being mindful of cultural context and emergent and lived experience.
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Practical Self-Leadership Tools: Learn how to lead with presence, clarity, and compassion in the face of complex and challenging times.
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The course is PACFA approved for 6 hours of category A CPD.
Course Overview
The Mindfulness for Practitioners Course blends practical tools and deep insights to support your therapeutic practice. ​
Week 1: What is true Mindfulness? – Discovering Presence and Awakening to Interbeing​
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Discover the foundations of mindfulness and core mindfulness mindsets to form an effective therapeutic practice.
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Explore awakening your senses, opening up your mind, and facilitating co-regulation.
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Expand awareness to better understand the root of suffering and move beyond the illusion of separation and towards intentional ecological ways of being with clients.
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Explore the first of a series of therapeutic mind-body practices designed to support awakening within yourself and others.
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Participate in reflective practice of mindfulness and professional ethics.
Week 3: Cultivating Compassion – Transforming Stress
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Recognise and understand the nature of stress and its effects on the body, mind, and emotions of both yourself and clients.
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Explore the difference between approach and avoidance orientations in therapy.
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Learn mindfulness-based therapeutic strategies for navigating difficulties with acceptance, gentleness and compassion.
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Activate the caregiving system to promote emotional co-regulation and strengthening relational bonds.
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Engage in mind-body-nature practices to cultivate resilience, belonging and presence.
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Explore how active compassion can enhance your therapeutic practice.
Week 2: Mind-Body-Social Connection – Embracing Culture, Context and Awareness
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Understand how minds influence bodies and how bodies influence minds.
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Cultivate a beginner's mind in the therapy room as you observe the patterns of thinking, feeling, and sensing, and ways of listening that develop trust, letting go and being present.
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Expand awareness of the interconnection of context in thoughts, emotions, family, culture, ancestry, and environment.
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Explore the second in a series of beneficial mind-body-nature practices to help you embody awareness, foster insight, and deepen connection.
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Investigate a case study to mindfully reflect on how to navigate a therapeutic dilemma.
Week 4: Mindful Living and Self- Leadership
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Learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your therapeutic practice and foster a deeper sense of purpose in supporting clients.
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Exploring interconnections and reflect on relationships with mindful listening, clarity and understanding.
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Discover how moments of joy, awe, and playfulness can enrich your life and sustain you and your clients, especially through uncertainty, complexity and challenge.
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Engage in the final practices and clarify your authentic vision for mindful living and working as a practitioner.
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Reflect on how joy, awe and wonder can enhance your therapeutic practice.
​Key Benefits of the Course
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Cultivate a natural, mindful presence with authenticity.
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Enhance your capacity to hold space and attune to clients.
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Develop an embodied somatic practice to ground yourself and clients in the present moment.
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Experience reduced stress, and heightened resilience.
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Gain clarity, compassion, and insight for navigating complex therapeutic challenges.
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Rediscover the wonder, beauty, and interconnectedness of the web of life.
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Course Details
Duration: 4 weeks
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Live Facilitation: 6 hours (1.5 hours/week).
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Online Modules: Self-paced learning resources.
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Recordings: Available for replay after each session.
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Additional Materials: Guided practices, worksheets, and exercises.
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Bonus extra online meditation practice session weekly.
Delivery Format: Fully online via Zoom with interactive elements.
Pricing: AUD $425 (includes live sessions, recordings, and materials).​
Dates: April 28th - May 19th
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
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Join Us
This course isn’t just about mindfulness meditation —it’s about integrating mindful awareness into every aspect of your life and theraputic practice. Whether you’re leading a clinic, supporting a clients, working in a community setting or seeking personal and professional growth, this course equips you with the tools to rise to the challenges of our time with awareness, compassion and wisdom.
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Introductory Mindfulness for Practitioners Course Inclusions
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Facilitated 4 x 90 minute group sessions
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Study Worksheets and Further Reading
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Follow up emails and recorded meditations
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Licensed Counselling & Coaching Professional
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Approved PACFA
6 hours Category A CPD
About Marion Miller
Marion has extensive experience teaching mindfulness to diverse groups, including leadership and employees at the Department of Education, the Supreme Court of Victoria, and various corporate and health organisations. She played a key role in facilitating a WorkSafe leadership and mindfulness pilot program for Smiling Mind and has trained mindfulness practitioners, teachers, and leaders.
With over 15 years of personal Insight Meditation practice, including regular participation in silent retreats, Marion brings a deeply rooted understanding of mindfulness to her work. She continues to refine her practice through supervision with a senior teaching community, ensuring her approach is grounded, authentic, and impactful.
She has over two decades of training and experience and holds a degree in ICF coaching, PACFA licensed counselling, MBSR and MBCT Mindfulness, and Ecotherapy certification. She currently works part time as an EAP provider and senior consultant at Converge International, providing employees and manager assistance.
Email Marion To Find Out More
Connect with Marion for complimentary call to find out more about the mindfulness for practitioners course, ask any questions & take the first step.
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