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The Calm Monkey
The Calm Monkey is the industry leader in training and certifying passionate meditators to become mindfulness meditation facilitators in their workplace or community. Learn to introduce mindfulness in your workplace or for your client organizations.
Our flagship Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator Training & Certification programsteps you through the highly practical and best practices approach to create or expand a workplace or community program, and become a skilled mindfulness facilitator. Includes quick-start toolkit and community of practice of like-minded people worldwide.
Apply for this program to assess your eligibility.
What you will learn:
Best practices on how to get support and promote, start and grow a respected, secular program.
Avoid mistakes and minimize risks for yourself and participants.
How to skillfully lead live, guided meditations.
Build your knowledge, confidence and credibility.
Industry trends and issues that facilitators need to be aware of and know how to address.
What supports you ongoing:
Earns you the title of ‘Certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator’. Annual recertification is required.
Includes a quick-start toolkit with sample communication templates, agenda outlines, participant handouts, meditation scripts, meditation recordings and background music,
An online community (private Slack group) to interact with other facilitators worldwide. Once certified, join the live, group Zoom meetings for high interaction and meaningful discussions.
Who is this for?
Practitioners of mindfulness and meditation who want to:
Become a skilled, confident facilitator and help others discover these practices.
Have a best practices framework for a quality program and minimize risk.
Employees working in organizations and/or entrepreneurs, professionals and service providers wanting to integrate mindfulness into their offerings.
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I have taken this course and found it very helpful to step into corporate settings and offer meditation programs. The course is very thorough and has a lot of great tips and support for going into the workplace.
Wendy's facilitator training and certification program is a great tool for any organization or an individual who wants to introduce mindfulness practices in the workplace setting. Wendy's training provides resources and tools to start a mindfulness program, to sustain it and to grow it. The certification provides additional confidence and credibility to promote this service.
Wendy has truly made it her mission to expand the world of mindfulness meditation practice, both in organizations and by offering training and support to facilitators who have that shared vision. She offers genuine and authentic support to her facilitators, and is truly committed to a brilliant community that she has created and continues to expand. I feel so grateful to be able to be a part of it.
Wendy has truly made it her mission to expand the world of mindfulness meditation practice, both in organizations and by offering training and support to facilitators who have that shared vision. She offers genuine and authentic support to her facilitators, and is truly committed to a brilliant community that she has created and continues to expand. I feel so grateful to be able to be a part of it.
1) What are the eligibility requirements for the Training course? The course does not teach how to practice mindfulness and/or meditation – to become a student of The Calm Monkey, you must already have a personal mindfulness and/or meditation practice with a reasonable foundational knowledge of this practice.
Although it is challenging to quantify a minimum standard of personal qualities and experience as a prerequisite to the Facilitator Training course, the following is defined as the minimum requirement. It is understood that individuals' experience can vary greatly.
Eligibility Requirements* 1. Personal meditation and/or mindfulness experience (dedicated daily practice). 2. Commitment to continuously learn about meditation and mindfulness. 3. A low-ego, humble approach to avoid a superiority persona. 4. Ability to speak publicly in a confident, compassionate and approachable manner to build trust with participants. 5. Ability to speak publicly in a clear, articulate style. 6. Ability and willingness to conduct sessions in a non-religious style, using universal language that is generally accepted by most people. 7. Truly open to feedback for continuous improvement, keeping the ego in check. 8. Ability to work cooperatively with other Facilitators to deliver a consistent, high quality program.
*Contact [email protected] to determine your eligibility if you are unsure.
2) Can I try the course before I buy it? Yes! There is a Free Preview. Once you have taken these free lessons, you will know if this path is right for you, and if so, can buy the full course.
3) How does the Facilitator Training course compare to meditation teacher programs? This course is a complement or an alternative to meditation teacher training programs and is not a competitor of such programs. As such, this makes the world of mindfulness meditation facilitation more accessible for experienced meditators without the large time and financial investment in meditation teacher training programs.
4) Is certification really worthwhile? Certification provides you with specific evaluation and feedback in a very supportive way, so you know you are offering quality facilitation to your participants. It's about credibility - people want to know that their facilitator is properly trained and qualified.
Facilitators working within an organization and those who are offering facilitation as a service find certification desirable. Those offering facilitation as a service in particular feel the necessity to obtain certification.
There is an annual re-certification requirement.
5) Does workplace mindfulness need to be implemented as a ‘top down’ program? Interestingly, some of the most successful programs are not started as a formal ‘human resources’ or ‘health & wellness’ program, and are started by anyone who is passionate about helping others and up to being a catalyst to get a program started.
Every organization is unique, and it is always a good idea, at a minimum, to obtain an ‘OK’ from whatever group may be necessary. Sometimes all that is needed is asking the human resources department for permission to use a meeting room for the practice and keeping them informed along the way, and sometimes they wish to be more involved. You can get started just in your own team if that feels right. In other words, this does not need to be a ‘top-down’ program, and can be very successful if you start small and grow this from a grassroots level. This approach builds trust amongst the employee community and lets you get comfortable as you grow the program.
6) Can I train others to become Facilitators after I’m trained? This course does not qualify or permit Facilitators to teach The Calm Monkey’s copyrighted courses. This is not a Train-the-Trainer program. This course and toolkit is solely to equip you personally as you lead others in mindfulness meditation.
7) What is the track record of this program? Wendy Quan, the founder of The Calm Monkey is the pioneer in the industry and started teaching mindfulness meditation in workplaces in 2011. This turned into training facilitators shortly thereafter.
The Facilitator Training course has been taught in numerous companies, universities and The Greater Good Science Center of UC Berkeley.
We are proud to say that Google trained their facilitators around the world with the online course, and 100% said they would recommend it to others, and it equipped them to be successful facilitators.
The Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (CPHR) is a partner with The Calm Monkey, and proudly offers this program to HR professionals.
8) Who takes this training?
Both organizations (generally Human Resources, Health & Wellness and leaders) and individuals initiate mindfulness at work.
Notable clients of The Calm Monkey include Google, Cincinnati Health Department, University of British Columbia, City of Vancouver, Pacific Gas and Electric, the U.S. Senate and many more medium to large organizations.
Many individuals (not organizations) also take this program. Counsellors, yoga instructors, educators, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, life coaches, etc.
The Calm Monkey
Creating a mindful world, together.
About
Wendy Quan, Founder of The Calm Monkey, is the industry leader in Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator Training & Certification and combining change management techniques with mindfulness to help people through difficult change.
The Calm Monkey began in 2011, and is the first and only provider to offer this practical training and toolkit. Students rave about this practical training and the valuable toolkit that equips them to start facilitating right away. Experienced meditators can help others without becoming meditation teachers, and can get certified in a very reasonable time frame.
Notable clients include Google, the government of Dubai, University of British Columbia, the U.S. Senate, many individuals and Fortune 500 organizations worldwide.
Wendy is an international conference speaker, sought for her continuous innovation in facilitator training and combining change management with mindfulness to help people through difficult change.
Her cancer journey led to her life’s purpose: “To help people create a better experience of life through mindfulness meditation”.
Mission Statement 'Creating a mindful world, together'.
None of us can do this alone. That's why by becoming a mindfulness facilitator, you can make a positive difference in people's lives, at work and in the community.
What We Believe In
You don't have to become a meditation teacher to have a positive impact in people's lives. If you are a passionate practitioner of mindfulness and/or meditation, you can learn this practical and logistical approach of how to bring this to your workplace or community.
Facilitators share their own knowledge and are skilled in leading live guided meditations, creating and running a program, and leading discussion. You are not expected to be a meditation expert or a teacher.
Our Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and serving people and organizations worldwide, in English.
A practical online course, toolkit and community to become a Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator right away. Certification gives you the credibility people want to see.
Experienced meditators learn to:
Implement workplace mindfulness - startup and grow an ongoing mindfulness practice. Skillfully facilitate mindfulness meditation sessions - with today's best practices.
From the pioneer and innovator of the mindfulness field's first facilitator training & certification program.
Found out more about this program's track record, take the Free Preview, and apply to see if you are eligible.
The intention of this session was to help participants gain clarity on what might be their personal, private & ethical Purposeful Action at this time of the anti-racism movement.
The sharing in this session was emotional and meaningful. Thank you to all who attended.
This replay is available below for anyone wishing to partake of their own accord. Participants appearing in this video have provided permission to retain their sharing in this replay.
Disclaimer:
To be clear, what is offered are mindfulness and meditation techniques with the intention to settle the mind and gain clarity on what actions may be right for you.
There is no intention to steer participants into any specific action.
By using this resource, you are waiving any and all claims against Wendy Quan, The Calm Monkey, and any participating facilitators for any personal injury, damage or expenses you may suffer.
This is not meant as professional or medical advice.
Mindfulness facilitators from my facilitator community joined me and provided some offerings and insights of their own during the session.
Results collected from the session:
Here's the replay:
About the meditation sittings:
Amidst the current times we are all facing with COVID-19, I am holding my meditation sittings online at no charge to offer practice to everyone, anywhere in the world.
Conducted through Zoom, the experience is best from a desktop computer or laptop.
You do not have to be on camera or speak if you don't want to! You are welcome to simply watch and listen, if desired. By default, participants will be muted.
During a question & answer time, if you want to speak, you are welcome to unmute to speak, or simply type into the Chat box.
Don't worry, if you've never attended a session online, I'll step you through it, it's not difficult. I've taught over 1,000 people how to meditate and over 300 mindfulness meditation facilitators. :)
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