What university diploma do you have?

Our Mindfulness Expert Title is a Title from the La Salle Higher Center for University Studies. With a duration of 500 hours in a 100% online Format with live and recorded classes that will grant you 20 ECTs.

Who is it addressed to?

If anxiety and stress are very frequent in your life, because they increasingly demand more dedication and better performance from us and ourselves. This can happen to us both at work and in our personal lives, because sometimes family life is more hectic and tiring than even going to work.

What are the classes like?

Through Video-Lessons, Aroa Ruiz, Expert Psychologist and Certified Mindfulness Instructor, explains the most important theoretical content step by step. You will also have audios with meditations that you can download and exercises with which to identify and enhance positive emotions. Every month there is a live class.

University Diploma of Specialization in Mindfulness
for Health Professionals University Diploma of Specialization in Mindfulness
for Health Professionals

Transform your well-being, your interventions
and the relationship with your patients.

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+19000 Certified Students

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Online Format

37 credits

930 hours

Weekly live classes

Personalized support

What will you
learn?

Train mindfulness

We guide Mindfulness beyond the reduction of discomfort. We put it into action to identify our strengths and function optimally.

Manage Health 360 degrees

We incorporate modules on nutrition, yoga, family well-being and of course, mental health.

Enhance Self-Care

The goal is for all health professionals to learn to take care of themselves, while advancing at the same time in their professional growth.

Learn to work on the pillars of well-being

Within the training you will find a structured program of 8 sessions that combines Mindfulness and Positive Psychology. Download their workbooks and apply them individually or in a group.

Create your own tools

You will learn to design your own workshops and interventions based on Mindfulness and you will build your own meditations with resources such as storytelling.

Own degree certified by the La Salle University Studies Center

You will become a Mindfulness Specialist, with an exclusive methodology that combines the transformative potential of Mindfulness with personal strengths to help people function optimally.

You will have specific tools, explained step by step, and applicable to different ages and issues:

Chronic pain

Cancer

Anxiety

Trauma

End of life

Apply the techniques in your professional environment

Promote
personal and work well-being

Health professionals are exposed to situations of high pressure, physical and emotional exhaustion. Mindfulness offers tools to manage stress better and prevent burnout. In addition, you will know how to identify personal strengths and guide your patients and your team toward self-care that protects mental and physical health.

Develop communication
effective with patients

You will learn to listen empathetically, contain discomfort, and manage and resolve conflicts more effectively with your patients and work team. You will learn to use techniques to promote change, improving adherence and patient satisfaction.

Apply Mindfulness
in everyday life

You will find versatile techniques compatible with the demanding agendas that health professionals have. Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated the transformative potential of mindfulness providing a solid foundation in promoting and protecting our well-being.

Syllabus

Module 1. Mindfulness, emotions and strengths

Mindfulness: Inhabiting the Present Moment
Focusing on strengths
The powerful role of emotions
Create awareness of automatic reactions
Benefits of full awareness
Mindfulness to flow and enjoy
Mindfulness and Strengths: a powerful combination
Mindfulness and Strengths: Daily Wellbeing
Mindfulness and Strengths: Emotional fullness
Conscious Relationships: Interpersonal Mindfulness
Conscious Relationships: Love and Communication
Mindfulness for stress management

Module 2. Applications for well-being

Mindfulness and the science of well-being
Mindfulness and the body
Mindful eating
Anxiety, stress and effective time management
Sadness and management of desired and unwanted loneliness
The role of Compassion in Mindfulness practices
Family practices I (children aged 3-12)
Family practices II (adolescents aged 13-18)
Family Practices III (adults)
Practices in Health Psychology I (children and adolescents)
Practices in Health Psychology II (adults)
CONSCIOUS WELL-BEING PROGRAM

Module 3. Mindfulness in the context of health

Self-knowledge and self-care of the professional
Skills for professionals who care for people
Managing patient discomfort
Trauma-sensitive mindfulness
Improve the relationship with pain
Mindfulness and Cancer
Support at the end of life
How to promote individual and group change
How to create a Mindfulness workshop

Opinions of health professionals who are students of mindfulness

Mónica Herrero

Nutricionista

What I am looking for is to be able to apply it in my consultations and create workshops with my patients where we discuss the strengths applied to the field of nutrition.

María Gordejuela

Psychologist (field of neurodegenerative diseases)

I already had training in Mindfulness. However, I did the strengths test at the beginning and at the end, and I have noticed changes. On a personal level it has helped me.

Kike Sanz

Health psychologist

On a personal level it has helped me focus and reduce my anxiety. And on a professional level, I try to sow in my patients the seed of what I am experiencing and it seems to be working for them.

Mindfulness Specialist Coordinator for health professionals

A great team will be attentive, will closely support you in your learning and will accompany you step by step in this revolution that is changing professionals.

Aroa Ruiz

Responsible for Mindfulness programs at IEPP

Health Psychologist

Col. Nº M-23967

Graduate in Psychology (UNED).
Specialist in Psychopathology and Health Promotion (UNED).
Expert in Positive Psychology (IEPP)
Master's in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (SEMPyP)
Master in Mindfulness for Emotional Management. (University of Malaga)
Mindfulness Instructor (UNED)
Master in Coaching and Emotional Intelligence (University of Oviedo)
University Specialist in Third Generation Therapies / Contextual Therapies (University of Almería)

We have specialist professionals in this sector such as:

Dafne Cataluña

Psychologist and founder of IEPP

Juan Nieto

Psychologist and Academic Director of IEPP

Aroa Ruiz

Psychologist and IEPP Trainer

Eva Herber

Psychologist, Coach and IEPP Trainer

Fátima Izquierdo

Psycho-oncologist and therapist at IEPP

Ana Moreno

Nutritionist, trainer and writer.

Alexandra Mejía

Internal medicine physician, founder and coordinator of the Potala Hospice Association.

Masterclass

Ronald D. Siegel

PhD in Psychology and professor at Harvard Medical School.

Kristin Neff

Pdh Psychology and professor at the University of Texas.

Elana Rosenbaum

MBSR pioneer, psychotherapist and trainer.

Other resources you have in training:

Testing center

Assessment center with easy-to-interpret tools to measure aspects such as well-being or emotional management, including the exclusive balanced strengths test (FORTE)

Personalized psychology session

You will discover your positive psychological resources and receive a complete report of your personal strengths in an individual session with one of our specialized psychologists.

Complementary material

You will have access to an extensive library with multiple readings and videos to explore the concepts that interest you most in greater depth.

Frequently asked questions

This University Diploma of Specialization in Mindfulness for Health Professionals is a Title from the La Salle Higher Center for University Studies, an institution attached to the Autonomous University of Madrid and present in 77 countries. It lasts 930 hours in a 100% online Format with live and recorded classes. You will obtain a digital diploma that certifies 37 ECTS credits and that makes you a specialist in Mindfulness in a healthcare context.

The program is focused on health professionals who want to incorporate Mindfulness to improve their own well-being, their performance as professionals and their relationship and intervention with their patients (some of the professions to which this training is directed are: Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, Pharmacy, Nutrition, Speech Therapy, Dentistry, Optometry, Podiatry, Gerontology, Social Education, Neurology, Oncology, Geriatrics, etc). It is training done by health professionals, for health professionals.

Each content module includes:

A section of video lessons where the content has been recorded by the trainers and teachers in class, masterclass or testimonial format.
A notebook and exercises section that compiles the theory in writing and adds downloadable worksheets that you can use in consultation
And a self-assessment, where we invite you to answer some multiple choice questions, so that you can check if you have internalized the theoretical concepts, and other personal reflection questions, so that you can check the learning and changes that are taking place on an emotional level.

In addition, you have tutoring and live classes (via the zoom platform), private messages with the tutors, a forum and a complete test center.

Of course, one of the objectives of the training is for you to internalize these tools firsthand, so that you can then apply them in your practice. In addition, we teach you how to create Mindfulness workshops and build your own meditations.

University Diploma of Specialization in Mindfulness
for Health Professionals University Diploma of Specialization in Mindfulness
for Health Professionals