DEER Program: Developing Emotional Embodied Resiliency: 6-Week Training

One daylong session: Saturday, March 9th  10:00am - 5:00pm.
* Registration is Required: Participants are asked to attend all the classes as they build on one another.
LOCATION: 2041 Larkin Street (between Vallejo and Broadway) on Russian Hill in San Francisco.The Mindfulness Care Center was recognized by San Francisco Magazine and Voted The Best Of 2018 in "Mindfulness and Meditation."
Attendees gain the capacity to challenge, dissolve & unwind long-held stressful and/or traumatic anxieties. Acquire new tools of understanding that offer release from worn-out negative habits and beliefs that hold us back from living a more balanced life.
"Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts." - Bessel van der Kolk.
The DEER Program is a unique 6-Week Training designed to support participants towards developing emotional-body stress resiliency, understanding attachment difficulty, personal boundary awareness and coming into a richer sense of wholeness.
We incorporate into the training an understanding of “The Seven Aspects Of Human Experience” that creates a new healing paradigm back into resiliency.
The DEER Program has been developed by Rik Center through the Mindfulness Care Center as a Mindful-Embodied Experiential & Educational Training towards dissolving the emotional and physical pain of overwhelming stresses and unresolved anxieties.
You don’t have to live constantly on guard, overly anxious and unable to mobilize yourself in not being able to connect to your supportive physiological response reflex. 
“Learn to be a creative partner in your life versus a reactive participant.”
1. Gain new tools that support release of dysfunctional physical/emotional anxieties that often overtake our lives.2. Obtains new skills in how to dissolve stress.3. Learn how to set down unwanted beliefs systems that keep us wrapped up in a daily life of stresses.4. Build in a mindful-somatic approach that offers more kindness and compassion towards ourselves and how to discharge long held anxieties.
This training also addresses compassionate self-care, boundaries, and effective communication.Program training includes:

Experiential exercises
Group discussions
Didactic teachings 
Guided meditations

Course Investment Fee $380: $350.00 plus $30 materials. Materials include Mindfulnes Care Center Workbook and two meditations to practice with.
Mindfulness is the doorway to working with a body and mind that has feelings and sensations that many people have spent their life avoiding. Our lives are a string of experiences that arise from "little incidents" to "large painful unresolved experiences" that often continue to produce stress responses that no longer serve us in our present day-to-day life.
Facilitated by Rik Center, Cofounder of the Mindfulness Care Center. He’s a SEP/Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General and CPMC Hospitals. He is a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy. Rik has a private practice working one-on-one with his clients that focuses on healing high levels of unresolved traumatic anxiety and PTSD along with offering grief and spiritual counseling. He began a meditation practice in the late 80's and leads the weekly ongoing Tuesday Evening Meditation Class. 
Assisted by Kayleigh Martin, a nationally board-certified health and wellness Coach, prospective Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and guided imagery practitioner. She is a 500-Hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher and holds her M.A. in Integrative Health Studies. With a deep understanding of how disconnection between the mind, body, and spirit can create suffering and illness, Kayleigh believes the body is the ultimate resource for healing and wellness. She has led workshops around managing and preventing burnout and embraces the mindset of always being a student, even when teaching.
The MCC/Mindfulness Care Center is a 501(3)(c) charitable organization.
Information For Continuing Education Units/ CEU’s:The MCC/Mindfulness Care Center is approved by CAMFT/California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for the MBSR/Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program. The MCC/Mindfulness Care Center maintains responsibility for the this program/course and its content.
This Course meets the qualifications for 19 hours of continuing education credit for licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC), and Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEP) as required by CAMFT/California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Mindfulness Care Center Provider #128625. There is a $30 Certificate Fee required. Course must be fully completed in-order to receive full CEU credits. CEU Certificates will be awarded after completion of the aforementioned program. Upon verification of program completion, certificate will be presented or emailed to recipient.
Refund/Cancellation Policy:The MCC/Mindfulness Care Center must receive refund request and cancellation 4-days prior prior to the beginning of the course/program for the entire program fee to be refunded. There is a $50 non-refundable fee if registration is cancelled after 4 days prior to the class beginning. Program fee is non-refundable if the program is dropped after the 2nd week of class. If the class is dropped within the 2nd week, refunds are prorated by week along with a $50 non-refundable fee.
Any grievance of attendee seeking accreditation must be received in writing and MCC will respond within a reasonable, ethical and timely manner.
Bus Lines in the area: 19 Polk, 45 Union, 47 Van Ness, 49 Van Ness, 10 Townsend, 27 Bryant, 12 Folsom/Pacific, 1 California and Hyde Street Cable Car.