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 Space, & Compassionate Connection.
In today’s fast-paced, and complex world, it’s easy to feel distracted, disconnected, and overwhelmed. The Mindfulness for Practitioners Course offers a transformative opportunity to slow down, restore balance, nurture peace of mind and develop agency in a world of over stimulation. Over four weeks, you will develop the skills to cultivate inner calm and clarity while rediscovering your connection to both nature and the people around you, an essential skill in being an effective practitioner.
Whether you're guiding clients, in a care giving role, or working in the community, mindfulness for practitioners provides personal and professional development for practitioners, counsellors and therapists. Mindfulness is more than a practice—it’s a powerful therapeutic skill. 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. Mindfulness bridges this gap, empowering you to navigate the stress response, reclaim agency and connection, supporting you to hold space for the human condition with authenticity, and compassion. Through systematic practice, creative exercises, interpersonal dialogue, and guided reflection, you’ll learn:
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To observe and reframe habitual thought patterns: Develop the ability to shift from limiting beliefs to an expansive perspective and embodiment of presence
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To hold space for yourself and clients: Strengthen your capacity for compassion, resilience, and ethical leadership.
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To integrate body, mind, and environment: Create a harmonious and coherent connection and awareness between your inner world, cultural diversity and the outer world.
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 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 enhance your leadership abilities. ​
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 that weave together to form an effective practice.
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Explore awakening your senses, opening up your mind, and rediscovering your center.
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Expand awareness to better understand the seeds of your suffering and move beyond the illusion of separation and towards intentional ecological way of being.
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Explore the first of a series of beneficial mind-body practices designed to support awakening within yourself and others.
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.
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Explore the difference between approach and avoidance orientations.
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Learn mindfulness-based strategies for navigating difficulties with acceptance and compassion.
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Activate the caregiving system to promote emotional regulation and strengthen bonds.
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Engage in mind-body-nature practices to cultivate resilience and presence.
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 as you observe patterns of thinking, feeling, and sensing, and ways of listening that develop trust and letting go.
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Grow awareness and recognise 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, realise patterns, foster insight, and deepen connection.
Week 4: Mindful Living and Self- Leadership
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Learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your daily routines and foster a deeper sense of belonging.
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Exploring Life’s Interconnections and reflect on relationships with mindful listening, bring clarity and understanding.
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Discover how moments of joy, awe, and playfulness can enrich your life and deepen your sense of belonging to the world.
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Engage in the final practices and clarify your authentic vision for mindful living and leadership.
​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 others.
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Develop an embodied somatic practice to ground yourself.
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Experience reduced stress and heightened resilience.
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Gain clarity, compassion, and insight for navigating complex challenges.
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Rediscover the wonder, beauty, and interconnectedness 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 professional 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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